Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ421131
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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Not Such a Happy Ending: The Ideology of the Open Ending.
Preis, Eran
Journal of Film and Video, v42 n3 p18-23 Fall 1990
Defines and analyzes the ideological conditions which motivate a writer to conclude a screenplay with an open ending. Questions whether screenwriting instructors in the 1990s should encourage their students to write nonclassical Hollywood cinema endings. (KEH)
Descriptors: Audience Response, Film Criticism, Film Study, Films, Higher Education, Playwriting, Popular Culture, Scripts
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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