Author : Sabine Chalvon-Demersay
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226100685
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)
Book Synopsis A Thousand Screenplays by : Sabine Chalvon-Demersay
Download or read book A Thousand Screenplays written by Sabine Chalvon-Demersay and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, French public television held an amateur screenwriting contest. When Sabine Chalvon-Demersay, a French sociologist, examined the roughly 1,000 entries, she had hoped to analyze their differences. What she found, however, surprised her. Although the entrants covered nearly every social demographic, their screenplays presented similar characters in similar situations confronting similar problems. The time of crisis presented by the amateur writers was not one of war, famine, or disease—it was the millennial dilemma of representation. In a world plagued by alienation, individualization, and a lack of mobility, how can members of a society combat their declining senses of self? Although the contestants wrote about life in France, their concerns and struggles have a distinctly universal ring. A lucid, witty writer, Chalvon-Demersay offers a clear, if still developing, photograph of the contemporary imagination.