The study of scripts and scriptwriting necessarily takes place in archives. Only through a concrete encounter with the script as a physical text scholars can grasp the real nature of scriptwriting. Since shooting scripts are rarely published in form of books, and since all the materials – such as notes, subjects, treatments – that preexist shooting scripts are even more rarely published, this encounter can happen only in archives.
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Through a series of key studies, linked both to Italian cinema (the scripts of Fellini, Petri, Rosi) and American cinema (the career of Ben Hecht, the Charlie Chaplin Papers of the Bologna Film Archive), the paper will analyze some of the main problems in the relationship between archival research and the history and theory of movie scripts.