Alternative scriptwriting : beyond the Hollywood formula / Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush.
By: Dancyger, Ken [author.]
Contributor(s): Rush, Jeff [author.]Publisher: New York : Focal Press, 2013Edition: Fifth editionDescription: xi, 466 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43914ISBN: 9780240522463 (pbk.) :; 9780240522470 (ebook) :Subject(s): Motion picture authorship | Motion picture plays -- Technique | Creative writing | LiteratureDDC classification: 791.437 DAN LOC classification: PN1996 | .D36 2013Summary: Going beyond the conventional three-act structure and exploring more inventive approaches, this text aims to challenge readers to take creative risks with genre, tone, character and structure.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
New to this edition:
New chapter on the newly popular genres of feature documentary, long-form television serials, non-linear stories, satire, fable, and docudrama
New chapter on multiple-threaded long form, serial television scripts
New chapter on genre and a new chapter on how genre's very form is flexible to a narrative
New chapter on character development
New case studies, including an in-depth case study of the dark side of the fable, focusing on The Wizard of Oz and Pan's Labyrinth
Previous edition: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Going beyond the conventional three-act structure and exploring more inventive approaches, this text aims to challenge readers to take creative risks with genre, tone, character and structure.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. ix)
- Acknowledgments for the Fifth Edition (p. xi)
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Beyond the Rules (p. 1)
- Structure
- Chapter 2 Structure (p. 15)
- Chapter 3 Critique of Restorative Three-Act Form (p. 31)
- Chapter 4 Counter-Structure (p. 40)
- Chapter 5 More Thoughts on Three Acts: Fifteen Years Later (p. 50)
- Chapter 6 Narrative and Anti-Narrative: The Case of the Two Stevens (p. 60)
- Chapter 7 Multiple Threaded Long-Form Television Serial Scripts (p. 78)
- Genre
- Chapter 8 Why Genre? (p. 91)
- Chapter 9 Working with Genre I (p. 102)
- Chapter 10 Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller (p. 122)
- Chapter 11 Working Against Genre (p. 145)
- Chapter 12 The Flexibility of Genre (p. 167)
- Chapter 13 Genres of Voice (p. 181)
- Chapter 14 The Non-Linear Film (p. 193)
- Chapter 15 The Fable: A Case Study of Darkness: The Wizard of Oz and Pan's Labyrinth (p. 203)
- Character
- Chapter 16 Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction (p. 215)
- Chapter 17 Stretching the Limits of Character Identification (p. 228)
- Chapter 18 Main and Secondary Characters (p. 241)
- Chapter 19 Subtext, Action, and Character (p. 251)
- Chapter 20 The Primacy of Character Over Action: The Non-American Screenplay (p. 265)
- Form, Tone, and Theory
- Chapter 21 The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form (p. 279)
- Chapter 22 Agency and the Other (p. 298)
- Chapter 23 Character, History, and Politics (p. 319)
- Chapter 24 Tone: The Inescapability of Irony (p. 340)
- Chapter 25 Dramatic Voice/Narrative Voice (p. 362)
- Chapter 26 Digital Features (p. 370)
- Chapter 27 Writing the Narrative Voice (p. 386)
- Chapter 28 Rewriting (p. 395)
- Chapter 29 Adaptations from Contemporary Literature (p. 403)
- Conclusion
- Chapter 30 Personal Scriptwriting: The Edge (p. 416)
- Chapter 31 Personal Scriptwriting: Beyond the Edge (p. 432)
- Index (p. 443)
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