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This is the case of one writer, working in a field less familiar to us. The paradigm of practice was different in the British film of the 1920s, and it was changing, which presented problems for a screenwriter who had opinions about good screenwriting. Intellectual debate over film principles led to strong views, but tensions in practice had particular consequences.
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© 2013 Ian W. Macdonald
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Macdonald, I.W. (2013). Hitchcock’s Forgotten Screenwriter: Eliot Stannard. In: Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea. Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230392298_7
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