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Alternative scriptwriting : beyond the Hollywood formula / Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Burlington, MA ; Abingdon, Oxon : Focal Press, 2013Edition: Fifth EditionDescription: xi, 466 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780240522463 (paperback)
  • 024052246X (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.2/3
LOC classification:
  • PN 1996 D175a 2013
Contents:
INTRODUCTION Beyond the RulesSTRUCTURE Structure Critique or Restorative. Three-Act Form Counter Structure More Thoughts on Three Acts: 15 Years Later Narrative and Anti-Narrative: The case of the two Stevens: The Work of Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh Multiple Thread Long Form Televisoin Serial ScriptsGENRE Why Genre? (New chapter) Working with Genre I Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller11.Working Against Genre12. The Flexibility of Genre )New chapter)13. Genres of Voice14. The Non-Linear Film15. The Fable: A case study of Darkness: The Wizard of Oz and Pan’s Labyrinth (New chapter)CHARACTER16. Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction17. Stretching the Limits of Character Identification18. Main and Secondary Characters19. Subtext, Action and Character20. The Primacy of Character over Action: The Non-American Screenplay.FORM, TONE AND THEORY21. The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form22. Agency and the Other23. Character, History and Politics24. Tone: The Inescapability of Irony25. Dramatic Voice, Narrative Voice26. Digital Features27. Writing the Narrative Voice28. Rewriting29. Adaptations from Contemporary LiteratureCONCLUSION30. Personal Screenwriting: The Edge31. Personal Screenwriting" Beyond the Edge.
Summary: Learn the rules of scriptwriting, and then how to successfully break them! Unlike other screenwriting books, this unique guide pushes you to challenge yourself and break free of tired, formulaic writing - bending or breaking the rules of storytelling as we know them. Like the best-selling previous editions, seasoned authors Dancyger and Rush explore alternative approaches to the traditional three-act story structure, going beyond teaching you "how to tell a story" by teaching you how to write against conventional formulas to produce original, exciting material. The pages are filled with an international range of contemporary and classic cinema examples to inspire and instruct
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

INTRODUCTION Beyond the RulesSTRUCTURE Structure Critique or Restorative. Three-Act Form Counter Structure More Thoughts on Three Acts: 15 Years Later Narrative and Anti-Narrative: The case of the two Stevens: The Work of Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh Multiple Thread Long Form Televisoin Serial ScriptsGENRE Why Genre? (New chapter) Working with Genre I Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller11.Working Against Genre12. The Flexibility of Genre )New chapter)13. Genres of Voice14. The Non-Linear Film15. The Fable: A case study of Darkness: The Wizard of Oz and Pan’s Labyrinth (New chapter)CHARACTER16. Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction17. Stretching the Limits of Character Identification18. Main and Secondary Characters19. Subtext, Action and Character20. The Primacy of Character over Action: The Non-American Screenplay.FORM, TONE AND THEORY21. The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form22. Agency and the Other23. Character, History and Politics24. Tone: The Inescapability of Irony25. Dramatic Voice, Narrative Voice26. Digital Features27. Writing the Narrative Voice28. Rewriting29. Adaptations from Contemporary LiteratureCONCLUSION30. Personal Screenwriting: The Edge31. Personal Screenwriting" Beyond the Edge.

Learn the rules of scriptwriting, and then how to successfully break them! Unlike other screenwriting books, this unique guide pushes you to challenge yourself and break free of tired, formulaic writing - bending or breaking the rules of storytelling as we know them. Like the best-selling previous editions, seasoned authors Dancyger and Rush explore alternative approaches to the traditional three-act story structure, going beyond teaching you "how to tell a story" by teaching you how to write against conventional formulas to produce original, exciting material. The pages are filled with an international range of contemporary and classic cinema examples to inspire and instruct

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