| Description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Acknowledgments for the fifth edition -- Introduction. Beyond the rules -- Structure. Structure -- Critique of restorative three-act form -- Counter structure -- More thoughts on three-acts: fifteen years later -- Narrative and anti-narrative: the case of the two Stevens -- Multiple threaded long-form television serial scripts -- Genre. Why genre? -- Working with genre I -- Working with genre II: the melodrama and the thriller -- Working against genre -- The flexibility of genre -- Genres of voices -- The non-linear film -- The fable: a case study of darkness: the wizard of Oz and Pan's labyrinth -- Character. Reframing the active/passive character distinction -- Stretching the limits of character identification -- Main and secondary characters -- Subtext, action, and character -- The primacy of character over action: the non-American screenplay -- Form, tone, and theory. The subtleties and implications of screenplay form -- Agency and the other -- Character, history, and politics -- Tone: the inescapability of irony -- Dramatic voice/narrative voice -- Rewriting -- Adaptations from contemporary literature -- Conclusion. Personal scriptwriting: the edge -- Personal scriptwriting: beyond the edge -- Index. |
| 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 updating this revised edition with new chapters covering newly popular genres (feature documentary, long-form television serials, non-linear stories (movies like Memento), satire, fable, and docudrama), case studies of new movies as well as classics, and a look at perspective as voice ... Goes beyond traditional 'how to tell a story' screenwriting books to teach you how to write against conventional formulas to produce original, exciting material."--Back cover |
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Motion picture authorship.
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Motion picture plays -- Technique.
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Cinéma -- Art d'écrire. |
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Motion picture authorship |
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Motion picture plays -- Technique |
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Drehbuch |
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Erzähltechnik |
| Added Author |
Rush, Jeff.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dancyger, Ken. Alternative scriptwriting. 5th ed. Burlington, MA ; Abingdon, Oxon : Focal Press, 2013 9780240522463 (DLC) 2012041004 (OCoLC)806017353 |
| ISBN |
9781136053627 (electronic bk.) |
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113605362X (electronic bk.) |
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9781136053610 |
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1136053611 |
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9780240522470 (e-book) |
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0240522478 (e-book) |
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