
Introduction / Jill Nelmes
History of the form. Entertaining the public option : the popular film writing movement and the emergence of writing for the American silent cinema / Torey Liepa
Screenwriters who shaped the precode woman and their struggle with censorship / Jule Selbo
Screenwriting in Britain 1895-1929 / Ian Macdonald
Development, craft and process. An impossible Task : scripting The Chilian club / Andrew Spicer
Boards, beats, binaries and bricolage : approaches to the animation script / Paul Wells
The flexibility of genre : the action-adventure film in 1939 / Ken Dancyger
Alternatives to the conventional screenplay form. Let the audience add 2 + 2 and they'll love you forever : the screenplay as a self-teaching system / Adam Ganz
The screenplay as prototype / Kathryn Millard
A similar sense of time : the collaboration between writer Jon Raymond and director Kelly Reichardt in Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy / JJ Murphy
On screenwriting outside the West / Sue Clayton
Theoretical and critical approaches . Character in the screenplay text / Steven Price
Realism and screenplay dialogue / Jill Nelmes
Analysing the screenplay : a comparative approach / Mark O'Thomas
Beyond McKee : screenwriting in and out of the academy / Barry Langford.
Analysing the screenplay. ISBN 9780203843383. Published by Routledge in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.