The Poetic Screenplay: A Collection of Articles

By Aleksey Snezhin

A poet and playwright born on August 12, 1983, in Saransk (the Republic of Mordovia, Russia); in 2005, he graduated with honors from the Philology Faculty of the Ogarev Mordovia State University and moved to Moscow. He worked as bank officer, desk clerk in printing office, furniture designer, and so on.
In 2006, he took to script writing; in 2011, he wrote a lyric and epic poem After spring, which served as basis for a new genre, poetic screenplay. He laid the theoretical foundation for the concept of poetic screenplay, defined it, and described its main features. Being a reformer, he proposed dividing the treatment in two parts: prose and poetic.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Jun 4, 2015
• ISBN: 9781504943604

Aleksey Snezhin

This collection contains articles by academicians and researchers who have been studying a new genre in the Russian cinedramatic art—The Poetic Screenplay.

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Poetic Screenplay. A collection of articles / Edited by A. I. Snezhin—M.: Angel, 2012.—56 pages.

This collection contains articles by academicians and researchers who have been studying a new genre in the Russian cinedramatic art—the poetic screenplay.

Contents

Poetic Screenplay as a New Genre in Russian Cinedramatic Art

The Evolution of Genres in Cinedramatic Art: From Alexander G. Rzheshevsky’s ‘Emotional Screenplay’ to Alexey I. Snezhin’s ‘Poetic Screenplay’

The Issue of the ‘Poetic Screenplay’ Genre and its Implementation in Creative Works by Alexey Snezhin

POETIC SCREENPLAY

AS A NEW GENRE IN

RUSSIAN CINEDRAMATIC ART

The development of the cinematographic art is often associated with the emergence of new genre forms with particular substantive features. Genres always arise in time [14, page 93], sensitively responding to the essential needs of society. Ample evidence of this can be seen in our modern cinedramatic art.

In this article, we will analyze the notion of the screenplay, define its basic elements and types, and examine a new genre—the poetic screenplay—which has sprung up relatively recently in cinematographic art.

Key words: poetic screenplay, new genre, Russian cinedramatic art, substantive features.

In The New Explanatory Dictionary of Word Structure in the Russian Language by T. F. Yefremova, the word screenplay is defined as follows:

Screenplay—a literary and dramatic work written as a basis for producing a motion picture or a television movie [5, page 251].

At this stage, we can single out the four main elements that make up a screenplay:

• the descriptive part (screenplay prose)

• the