----------------------------Original message---------------------------- On Sat, 5 Nov 1994 [log in to unmask] wrote: > literary form." Been asking around the Swedish and English departments > here at the U of Karlstad if anyone has even heard of anyone anywhere using > a screenplay as a literary source in a non film/theatre studies classroom, > and I've yet to find an affirmative. There is a long tradition of publishing screenplays (even before the films were made if ever) in the Soviet Union. There was (is?) a special Russian journal devoted to it. Another phenomenon from that part of the world was a literary genre called cine-novel which has a long tradition of being used in classrooms. It i s not exactly a screenplay but also not exactly a literary genre. For example Alexander Dovzhenko wrote many cine-novels when he could not make films. Some of them (Enchanted Desna) are required readings in Ukrainian school curriculum. I know that similar genre exists in France (Robbe -Grillet wrote some) but don't know if they are used in classroom. Bohdan Y. Nebesio