Writing subtext : what lies beneath / Dr. Linda Seger.
By: Seger, Linda [author.]
Publisher: Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions, [2017]Description: viii, 140 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43910ISBN: 9781615932580 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Subtext (Drama, novel, etc.) | Motion picture authorship | Television authorship | LiteratureDDC classification: 791.437 SEG LOC classification: PN3383.S83 | S44 2017Summary: Partly a how-to book, partly an exploration of this important topic, this work explores all the underlying meanings that lie beneath the words, images, and actions in film, which are also applicable to any kind of fiction writing.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"What lurks in the shadows, just below waking consciousness?"Subtext can be the most important element in text and in a performance. It's an unseen force that speaks directly to the reader's unconscious, deepening meaning and understanding. Great subtext reveals more than simple dialogue and action and is at the heart of the best books and films. It is what glues us to the screen.This book goes far beyond dialogue, action, gestures, genre, and images. Written by one of the foremost script consultants in the world and the most prolific writer on screenwriting, this new edition adds new examples with chapters on analogy and love, and provides deeper explanations of how subtext works beneath the text. This edition has been expanded to be relevant to all fiction writers.
Originally published: 2011.
Includes filmography.
Partly a how-to book, partly an exploration of this important topic, this work explores all the underlying meanings that lie beneath the words, images, and actions in film, which are also applicable to any kind of fiction writing.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Acknowledgments (p. vi)
- Foreword to the Second Edition (p. vii)
- 1 Subtext: What Is It? How Do You Find It? (p. 1)
- 2 The Backstory: What's Behind It? What's Before It? (p. 21)
- 3 The Words: Not Telling It Like It Is (p. 35)
- Case Study: Double Indemnity (p. 49)
- 4 Playing with Analogies (p. 54)
- Case Study: The Big Short (p. 56)
- 5 Love Sparkles Beneath the Text (p. 61)
- Case Study: "Abnormal Psychology" from Cheers (p. 74)
- 6 Gestures and Action: Showing It Beneath the Lines (p. 80)
- 7 Images and Metaphors: What You See Is Not All You Get (p. 92)
- 8 What Lurks Within the Genre (p. 112)
- Case Study: Orator (p. 121)
- 9 The Super-Objective: Where and How Does the Subtextual River Flow? (p. 128)
- Case Study: Ordinary People (p. 133)
- 10 Writer Alvin Sargent Ruminates About Subtext (p. 137)
- Afterword (p. 139)
- Filmograph (p. 140)
- About the Author (p. 141)
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