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Mansoor, Zahida, and Maryam Khalid. "Analyzing Feminist Discourse in a Pakistani Screenplay." Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 12, no. 3 (2024): 2822–34. https://doi.org/10.52131/pjhss.2024.v12i3.2440.

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The study explores the feminist discourse in a Pakistani screenplay, highlighting attitudes towards women's emancipation. Using a qualitative lens, it investigates the language of the screenplay and the linguistic features that reinforce the impression of empowered Pakistani women. The thematic analysis reveals that the prevailing patriarchal cultural narratives are challenged in the screenplay, offering a departure from the predictability of the earlier storylines. The findings also indicate that changes in the way women are viewed is strengthened by the screenplay’s language choices, highlig
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Rudolph, Pascal, and Claus Tieber. "Screenwriting sound and music: Towards a new field of study." Soundtrack, The 15, no. 1 (2023): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ts_00023_2.

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Extensive research in film and media studies on film music and sound has delved into various aspects of their role in cinema, recognizing their significance. However, a crucial element in film production – the screenplay – has often been overlooked in the exploration of sound and music integration. Concurrently, studies on screenwriting have displayed limited interest in the acoustic dimensions of film, creating a research gap where film music studies intersect with screenwriting studies. This Special Issue aims to address this gap by emphasizing the screenplay’s importance in comprehending th
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Goncharenko, Alexander A. "Between ideology and literature: the discussion of screenplays in the USSR in the 1930s." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 11, no. 1 (2019): 27–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik11127-36.

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The essay deals with the gradual cessation of discussions of the theory of the iron (rigid) screenplay (championed by Vladimir Sutyrin and Mikhail Bleiman) and the theory of the emotional screenplay (developed by Sergei Eisenstein and Aleksandr Rzheshevsky) As these two theories were discussed by very different personalities, their institutional or group identification is complicated. In the second half of the 1930s, Boris Shumyatsky and Bella Kravchenko developed the concept of the ideological screenplay. The main apologist of the ideological screenplay theory was Valentin Turkin. He expounde
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Winer, David, and R. Young. "Automated Screenplay Annotation for Extracting Storytelling Knowledge." Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 13, no. 2 (2021): 273–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1609/aiide.v13i2.12994.

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Narrative screenplays follow a standardized format fortheir parts (e.g., stage direction, dialogue, etc.) including short descriptions for what, where, when, and howto film the events in the story (shot headings). We created a grammar based on the syntax of shot headings toextract this and other discourse elements for automatic screenplay annotation. We test our annotator on over a thousand raw screenplays from the IMSDb screenplay corpus and make the output available for narrative intelligence research.
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Koschany, Rafał. "From a Literary Work to a Movie and Back. Literary and Literary Studies Contexts for the Art of Screenplay." Tekstualia 1, no. 60 (2020): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0014.1361.

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Screenplays are a paradoxical and ambivalent phenomenon. On the one hand, a screenplay is a literary genre and its development attests to the process of its emancipation from the power of fi lm and fi lm theory. On the other hand, however, the screenplay read as the text „is becoming a movie” already during the act of reading. The screenplay – as a quasi-literary phenomenon – can be a useful and inspiring tool in fi lm interpretation, as it opens up a variety of methodological possibilities.
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Brickey, Russell. "Art in the ‘big print’: An examination and exercises for cinematic prose writing style." Journal of Screenwriting 12, no. 2 (2021): 227–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/josc_00061_1.

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Guides to writing screenplays worry most about plot sequence, character development and the dialogue. Yet, the ‘big print’ is a necessary part of any screenplay and as an educator I work with my screenwriting students to learn how to craft the big print so it is both powerful and minimal. This article is an examination of the art and style of screenplay prose; in particular, I use the screenplays of Arac Attack (released as Eight Legged Freaks), Aliens and Platoon as distinctive examples of diegetic writing in order to illustrate variations of style and how these affect the progress of the scr
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Prokhorova, Elizaveta Vladimirovna. "Main expressive devices of the literary screenplay in Russian cinema of the 1990s." Человек и культура, no. 5 (May 2023): 29–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8744.2023.5.44041.

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The article explores the means of literary expressiveness used in the literary screenplays of film screenwriters of the 1990s. The literary screenplay, characterized by the extensive use of literary devices, became an educational and production standard of Soviet cinema from the 1930s. All elements of this form are subservient to the goal of subsequent screen embodiment and are directly related to the issues of the future film. In the 1990s, the transition from the state-controlled Soviet film production system to the producer model led to a shift towards the American screenplay, whose dry and
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Breed, C. A., and S. F. Greyling. "’n Ondersoek na ’n werkswyse: die herskryf van ’n komplekse Afrikaanse roman na ’n draaiboek." Literator 31, no. 2 (2010): 83–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v31i2.48.

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An investigation into a methodology: the adaptation of a complex Afrikaans novel into a screenplay Very few Afrikaans films are currently being produced. One of the possible reasons for this phenomenon could be that very few Afrikaans screenplays are written nowadays. There are, however, some good Afrikaans novels which could conceivably become commercially successful films, provided they were properly adapted into screenplays. In this article, the methodology that was used by an aspiring Afrikaans screenwriter to adapt the Afrikaans novel, “Die swye van Mario Salviati”, by Etienne van Heerden
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Goodare, Lee. "‘I wasn’t open to notes’: S. Craig Zahler, Dragged Across Concrete (2018) and the 157-page screenplay." Journal of Screenwriting 13, no. 1 (2022): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/josc_00080_1.

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Drawn to its distinctive narrative style and length, in this article I examine writer-director S. Craig Zahler’s third feature screenplay, Dragged Across Concrete. I focus on Zahler’s authorship and creative writing, which flouts many screenwriting conventions. Zahler’s screenplay, totalling 157 pages, is considerably longer than the recommended length of 90‐120 pages and it is examined and contextualized here via discussion of length, style, character, scenes, genre and dialogue. This analysis contributes to the formal study of the screenplay as a source text and aims to counter what Steven P
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Prokhorova, Elizaveta Vladimirovna. "Typology of literary script in Russian cinema of the 2000s." Человек и культура, no. 2 (February 2024): 106–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.25136/2409-8744.2024.2.70474.

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The study materials included screenplays by authors who made their debut in the 2000s: M. Kurochkin, I. Ugarov, V. Sigarev, A. Rodionov, A. Novototsky, V. Moiseenko, A. Zvyagintsev, and O. Negin. Since the 1930s Soviet film school had formed a specific type of screenplay, literary script, in which the visual identity of the future film is created through literary means. In the 1990s, a competitive type of script appeared in the Russian film production – it was American screenplay format which implied he abandonment of literary techniques. By the 2000s, Russian film dramaturgy was influenced by
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Screenplay"

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Connors, Melanie R. (Melanie Rose). "Chutzpah: A Screenplay." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1989. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501215/.

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CHUTZPAH is a romantic movie set in Manhattan. The events surrounding the death of a wealthy eccentric cumulate into a farcical search for the old man's fortune when it is stolen shortly after his funeral. Ellen, the protagonist, hires a detective to find out who stole her grandfather's money (a substantial sum of which was willed to her). As Mark, the detective, works on the case, a relationship between him and Ellen develops, and the search for the money becomes secondary. Ellen's charm and her relationship with her zany Yiddish relatives endear her to Mark while they together find chutzpah
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Watson, Todd Lincoln. "Turnabout : A Screenplay." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278696/.

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Turnabout, a feature-length screenplay with an accompanying critical essay, is the story of Michael Houston, a successful stockbroker in his late twenties whose unlikely romantic rendezvous with a bohemian art dealer leads him to realize that finding love often begins with a soul-searching journey into oneself.
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Glenn, Elsa Marguerite Henriette. "Screenplay: Schedule 7." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20057.

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This creative project and essay for a Masters degree in Media Theory and Practice is focused around the design of a South African TV series called 'Schedule 7' which is set in Cape Town's south peninsula in a (fictional) non-governmental, psychiatric clinic. The premise is that a troubled handful of patients' perspectives on life change after they encounter what they believe to be God's salvation when they accidentally almost burn themselves to death. The format follows their endeavours to follow and serve God, who they term 'GOGO' (God of Goodness Only), with mixed results. The format is an h
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Buchholz, Robert Henry. "Triathlon: an Original Screenplay." Thesis, North Texas State University, 1987. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc504205/.

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A young man, out of college and work, sets out to make his mark on the world, by winning the endurance sport of the eighties: the Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon. As he eats, sleeps and breaths "Ironman," he shuts others out of his life because he feels that he must do it alone for the victory to be genuine; a philosophy that has been dogging him all his life.
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Su, Xinxin. "Genesis : a feature screenplay /." Online version of thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/8692.

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Fawns, Kathleen Mary. "Mater Hill : a screenplay." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1999.

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Mater Hill is loosely based on a true story. Liz has always craved and been denied her mother's love. After several years of trauma caused by losing her mother in a boarding house fire, she discovers that arson was involved and investigates, seeking justice. When she mediates with her mother's killer, she effects an emotional substitution. They fall in love and she persuades him to help her convict the main culprit. Even before the trial fails, she begins to reject him, psychologically completing the process of her own separation and individuation. Once Liz has this stronger sense of self, she
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Ritchie, Brendan. "CooperStreet' (original screenplay); and, Into the foreground : an examination of setting in the screenplay." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2011. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/456.

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This thesis in Creative Writing consists of an original feature-length screenplay and an essay examining the function of setting within the screenwriting discourse. The screenplay, titled 'Cooper Street', is set in future Perth where rumors of an alien presence threaten to disrupt the state's lucrative mining industry. Setting plays a key role within 'Cooper Street'. Scenes are set across giant sweeps of desert, inside sea containers converted to inner-city housing, and within raging sporting crowds to create a believable projection of life in future Western Australia. These characteristics fa
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Igelström, Ann. "Narration in the screenplay text." Thesis, Bangor University, 2014. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/narration-in-the-screenplay-text(616fca70-d82f-4ce8-b93b-ab8cfbb2da2e).html.

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This thesis examines the narration in screenplay texts. The aim is to explore how the screenwriter, through the screenplay text, communicates the potential film to the reader. The thesis thus situates the screenplay in a communicational context, and argues that the screenplay text is a means of communication. In many cases, the screenplay text is the writer's only means of communicating with a potential investor, thus determining whether the screenplay will fulfil its purpose of becoming a film. Using a communicational approach enables a close examination of the different extratextual and intr
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Nelmes, Jill. "The screenplay and the screenwriter." Thesis, University of East London, 2016. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/5173/.

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This critical appraisal is based on an overview of my published research on the subject of the screenplay between 2007 and 2014 when my most recent monograph, The Screenplay in British Cinema (BFI, 2014) was produced. The aim of my research has been twofold: to bring to academic attention the depth and breadth of screenplay writing as a written form, particularly within British Cinema, and to argue that the screenplay can be studied as a literary text.
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Cousins, Robert James. "The child star syndrome, a screenplay." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0019/MQ49139.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Screenplay"

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Field, Syd. Four screenplays: Studies in the American screenplay. Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2006.

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Field, Syd. Four screenplays: Studies in the American screenplay. Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2006.

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Field, Syd. Four screenplays: Studies in the American screenplay. Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2006.

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Field, Syd. Four screenplays: Studies in the American screenplay. Dell Pub., 1994.

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Russell, Anna. Screenplay. Film Education, 1999.

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Whelan, Graham. Screenplay. University College Dublin, 2002.

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Harris, MacDonald. Screenplay. The Overlook Press, 2014.

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Attali, Jacques. 1492: Screenplay. Mod Films, 1992.

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Stone, Oliver. J.F.K.: Screenplay. [s.d.], 1991.

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Franzoni, David. Gladiator: [screenplay]. s.n.], 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Screenplay"

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Markham, Peter. "Screenplay." In What’s the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367815363-22.

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Bang, James. "Screenplay." In Script Analysis. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003138853-2.

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Wang, Jiaren, Regina Kanyu Wang, Storycom, Guo Qi, and John Shanahan. "Screenplay." In The Making of The Wandering Earth. Routledge India, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003205920-4.

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Hurbis-Cherrier, Mick. "The Screenplay." In Voice & Vision. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315815893-2.

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Richards, Ron. "Screenplay Formats." In A Director's Method for Film and Television. Routledge, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032645186-8.

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Hurbis-Cherrier, Mick, and Gustavo Mercado. "The Screenplay." In Voice & Vision, 4th ed. Routledge, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003164357-3.

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Batty, Craig. "Writing the Screenplay." In A Companion to Creative Writing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118325759.ch7.

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Raynauld, Isabelle. "Reading a screenplay." In Reading and Writing a Screenplay. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781351068208-13.

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Fuller, Karla Rae. "Starting Your Screenplay." In Mastering the Craft of Diverse and Inclusive Screenwriting. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781032645094-8.

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Crowell, Thomas A. "Creating a Screenplay." In The Pocket Lawyer for Filmmakers, 3rd ed. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003228479-12.

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Conference papers on the topic "Screenplay"

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Saxena, Rohit, and Frank Keller. "MovieSum: An Abstractive Summarization Dataset for Movie Screenplays." In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2024.findings-acl.239.

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Papalampidi, Pinelopi, Frank Keller, Lea Frermann, and Mirella Lapata. "Screenplay Summarization Using Latent Narrative Structure." In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.174.

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Chen, Mingda, Zewei Chu, Sam Wiseman, and Kevin Gimpel. "SummScreen: A Dataset for Abstractive Screenplay Summarization." In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers). Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.589.

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Preu, Jacqueline, and Jörn Loviscach. "From movie to comic, informed by the screenplay." In SIGGRAPH07: Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Conference. ACM, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1280720.1280828.

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Chiu, Ming-Chang, Tiantian Feng, Xiang Ren, and Shrikanth Narayanan. "Screenplay Quality Assessment: Can We Predict Who Gets Nominated?" In Proceedings of the First Joint Workshop on Narrative Understanding, Storylines, and Events. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.nuse-1.2.

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Iguma, Ayaka, and Masashi Yamada. "Correspondence Analysis on the Production Staff for the Anime Series Nintama Rantaro." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001768.

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Nintama Rantaro is a long running TV anime series in Japan, which is produced by a large number of staff members. In the present study, 228 episodes of this series were selected to analyze the relationships among the staff members and the elements in the episodes, using correspondence analysis and cluster analysis. Numbers of storyboard writers, animation directors, screenplay writers and directors, and factors of the stories, e.g., representative expressions, motions of the main characters and emotions of the main characters, were counted, and a cross-tabulation table was constructed. The res
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HWANG, KAO-SHING, YU-CHI KUO, and WEI-CHENG JIANG. "AN EDITORIAL PLATFORM FOR SCREENPLAY OF INTERACTIVE ROBOTIC PUPPET SHOWS." In CLAWAR 2015: 18th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789814725248_0010.

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Smokotina, V. A. "THE POETICS OF ABSURDITY IN E.L. SCHWARTZ’S SCREENPLAY «MARYA-ISKUSNITSA»." In ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES. TSU Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/978-5-907442-02-3-2021-111.

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Nakano, Yusuke, Hiroaki Ohshima, and Yusuke Yamamoto. "Film Genre Prediction Based on Film Content and Screenplay Structure." In iiWAS2019: The 21st International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services. ACM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3366030.3366100.

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Wang, Depei, Lianglun Cheng, Hongwei Liu, Ruihao Li, Huilin Wang, and Hongrui Liu. "Script2Graph: Auto-construct Screenplay Text World by Mining Contextual Information." In 2023 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (SEAI). IEEE, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/seai59139.2023.10217409.

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