History of the Screenplay

Steven Price is Senior Lecturer in English at Bangor University. He is the author of The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism; The Plays, Screenplays and Films of David Mamet; and (with William Tydeman) Oscar Wilde: Salome. His previous book, The Screenplay: Authorship, Theory and Criticism, was shortlisted for the American Theatre Library Association's Richard Wall Memorial Award in 2011.

• Introduction 1. Prehistory of the Screenplay 2. Copyright Law, Theatre, and Early Film Writing, 1904-1912 3. Outlines and Scenarios, 1904-1917 4. The Continuity Script, 1912-1929 5. The Silent Film Script in Europe 6. The Coming of Sound 7. The Hollywood Sound Screenplay to 1948 8. Narrative Fiction and European Screenwriting, 1948-1960 9. The master-scene Screenplay and the 'New Hollywood' 10. The Contemporary Screenplay and the Screenwriting Manual 11. Screenwriting Today and Tomorrow 12. Conclusion Bibliography

“Steven Price’s A History of the Screenplay as the work constitutes a valuable addition to reference material and has implications for the examination of textual material.” (A Year's Work in English Studies, 2015)