| Sumario: | The significance of tracing intermedial connections lies not only in seeing the emergence of a new discipline but also in understanding more of what practitioners thought they were doing. For narrative film-making, the professionalization of screenwriting involved rationalization based principally around theatre and art practice, drawing on sources such as theatre critic William Archer's Play-making (1912). Using a quasi-linguistic model, and by comparing Archer with screenwriting advice, opinion and practice from the 1910s, this article traces the establishment of the assumptions that still underpin professional screenwriting today.
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