Alternative Scriptwriting: Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen

ISBN-13: 9781032150567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 504 str.

USA) Rush PA Philadelphia Jeff (Temple University

Opis

Unlike other screenwriting books, this unique storytelling guide pushes you to break free of tired, formulaic writing by bending or breaking the rules of storytelling as we know them. This new edition dives into all the key aspects of scriptwriting, including structure, genre, character, form, and tone.

Spis treści

Foreword;  INTRODUCTION;  1. Beyond the Rules;  STRUCTURE;  2 Structure;  3 Critique of Restorative Three-Act Form;  4 Counter-Structure;  5 The Three-Act Spectrum;  6 Strategies for Plot and Character: Surprise, Triangulation, and Subtext;  7 Multiple Threaded, Long-Form Episodic Scripts;  GENRE;  8 Why Genre?;  9 Working with Genre;  10 Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller;  11 Working with Genre III: Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges;  12 Working Against Genre;  13 The Flexibility of Genre;  14 Genres of Voice;  15 The Nonlinear Film;  16 The Fable, a Case Study of Darkness: The Wizard of Oz and Pan’s Labyrinth;  CHARACTER; 17 Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction;  18 Stretching the Limits of Character Identification;  19 Main and Secondary Characters;  20 Subtext, Action, and Character;  21 Exceptional but Opaque Characters in Flattened Scripts;  FORM, TONE, AND THEORY;  22 The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form;  23 Theatricality on Screen;  24  Tone: The Inescapability of Irony;  25 Dramatic Voice/Narrative Voice;  26 Writing the Narrative Voice;  27 Regionalism vs Commercialism: Kelly Reichardt, Eugene Martin, and Kathryn Bigelow;  28 Adaptations from Literature ;  29 Rewriting; CONCLUSION;  30 Personal Scriptwriting: The Edge;  31 Personal Scriptwriting: The Short Film