ABSTRACT
What screenwriting is. What the screenwriter provides. Images in a screenplay. Synecdoche and the screen of the mind. Image as metaphor (Vertigo). Image as motif (Notorious). Image related to character (Rear Window). Finding the image in the process of writing (Roma). The “image system.” Motif in Wasp. Repeated imagery in successive films. Images of dissonance (Point Break). Images of absence (Throne of Blood). Motif and the concept of the ikone — an element of visual language.
