The Screenplay as Postmodern Literary Exemplar
Authorial Distraction, Disappearance, Dissolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2384732 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathaniel Kohn (University of Georgia) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 489-510 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/107780040000600405 |
| OpenAlex | W1985273768 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 3 |
The article focuses on the how of writing for the screen, examining it as a text-making practice that might help us, by example, to learn new ways of writing that make meaning through polyphony, juxtaposition, dialogical interaction, and the dissolution of the author function. As multiple writers disappear into the screenplays they write, albeit unknowingly and without community, they are doing more than manufacturing homogeneous clones, more than merely participating in a reified ritual of rote iteration in service to Theodor Adorno's relentlessly commodifying culture industry. They are making a newly engaging literary thing, something epistemologically diverse, unanchored, free flowing, floating, and authorless-an exemplar of how to make what Barthes calls "writerly texts" in the contemporary moment
Aesthetics · Art · Dialogical self · Distraction · Epistemology · Literature · Meaning (existential · Polyphony · Postmodernism · Sociology · Artistic and Creative Research · Philosophy · Psychology · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2025 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |