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It's time that screenwriters got the props!

Host Tom Fudge talks with the author of The Schreiber Theory, a manifesto which argues that the screenwriter, not the director, is really the creative genius behind a good film.

It's time that screenwriters got the props!


Host Tom Fudge talks with the author of The Schreiber Theory, a manifesto which argues that the screenwriter, not the director, is really the creative genius behind a good film.

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  • David Kipen is the author of The Schreiber Theory: A Radical Rewrite of American Film History. He's also the Director of the Literature program at the National Endowment of the Arts. He joins us by phone from Washington DC.
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