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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 9:20 pm Post subject:
Mushroom Pie wrote:
A script uses literary devices. It has a plot. It's essentially a novel or short story written in a different format. I don't see why it's not literature.
Because it's just a piece of the whole, and not a self-contained piece of work. It's up to others to produce and perform the script, thus making the piece complete. If the written play were the end of the line, I wouldn't be on the fence as to whether I consider scripts to be literature. However, they're not, so I am.
For that matter, how far do we take it? Are screenplays literature? The teleplays from Doctor Who? The stage directions for the new Mentos commercial? All of these things count as writing, but I have trouble counting them as real literature. I consider theater and cinema to be equal and excellent art forms, but I'm hesitant to jumble their written directions up with novels and poems.
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