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Screenwriting: between art and craft
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Abstract
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| This paper discusses screenwriting in terms of art and craft. Section one briefly sketches how a wider "pre-modern" view on art, which included craft, has evolved into a "modern", narrower view of art, which redefined the concept as "fine art" and expelled craft from its territory. This paradigm shift entailed at once the development of two distinct value systems: a Romantic and a Classicist value system. Whereas the former serves to define and appreciate artworks in terms of fine art and to depreciate other cultural practices and products in terms of craft, the latter allows to appreciate craftworks on its own terms. Section two describes some of the core features of this Classicist value system. Before moving on, section three adds some caveats to the reader who might be opposed to binary categorizations: The Romantic and the Classicist value system are conceived as "probabilistic" categories. That is to say, they allow for graded category-membership and category-overlap. This explains how and why scholars have already speculated about a possible "third system of art". Section four looks into some of these proposals. Section five finally suggests that a "technical" approach to screenwriting or story writing could help materialize such a third system and offer several advantages. |
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English, Spanish
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Palabra clave. - La Sabana
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Publication
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La Sabana
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2021
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ISSN
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0122-8285
2027-534X
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DOI
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10.5294/PACLA.2021.24.2.5
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Volume/pages
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24
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(2021)
, p. 1-20
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Article Reference
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e2425
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E-only publicatie
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Full text (open access)
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