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The field of screenplay research is divided into two different strands that can be separated through their points of focus. One of these strands focuses on the screenwriting process: that is, the process of writing and revising the screenplay text during a film’s development stage. Researchers who follow this strand of research argue that a film does not solely originate from the screenplay text but rather from the film’s development process, during which the screenplay is continuously being rewritten. Osip Brik, for example, finds that the screenplay format and its literary language are insufficient means to convey the film, and therefore the collaboration and the work on the screenplay during the film’s development stage is far more important than the text itself (1974: 99).
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Ingelstrom, A. (2014). Narrating Voices in the Screenplay Text: How the Writer Can Direct the Reader’s Visualisations of the Potential Film. In: Batty, C. (eds) Screenwriters and Screenwriting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137338938_3
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