Creative Screenwriting: Understanding Emotional Structure

ISBN-13: 9780230221406 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 224 str.

Christina Kallas

Opis

Christina Kallas argues for and sets out a genuinely original and creative approach to writing for the screen. This textbook aims to excite the imagination, inspiring and dramatizing stories with thematic richness, emotional depth and narrative rhythm. Structured like a screenplay, the book moves through the pre-credit sequence to the epilogue, interweaving theory, practice and case studies. Kallas combines an awareness of the history of dramatic writing with a very practical focus on how to find ideas and develop them. Supported by innovative and inspiring exercises that enable writers to create stories out of emotions and images, this book is challenging, motivating and essential reading for anyone interested in screenwriting.

Spis treści

Prologue Pre-Credit Sequence: Theoretical Roots of Creative Screenwriting The Beginning: The Trick of Creative Screenwriting The Middle: Techniques of Creative Screenwriting The End: Application of Creative Screenwriting to the Complete Screenplay In Place of an Epilogue: A Plea For the Screenwriter Bibliography.

O autorze

CHRISTINA KALLAS is a screenwriter and producer and President of the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE). She is the artistic director of the Balkan Fund and teaches screenwriting at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.