Alternative scriptwriting : beyond the Hollywood formula / Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush
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TextPublication details: New York: Focal Press, 2013Edition: 5th edDescription: xi, 466 p.; 23 cmISBN: 9780240522463 (paper back)Subject(s): Motion picture authorship | Motion picture plays -- TechniqueDDC classification: 808.23 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 808.23 DAN/A (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P40624 |
Includes index.
INTRODUCTION
Chapter I Beyond the Rules
STRUCTURE
Chapter 2 Structure
Chapter 3 Critique of Restorative Three-Act Form
Chapter 4 Counter-Structure
Chapter 5 More Thoughts on Three Acts: Fifteen Years Later
Chapter 6 Narrative and Anti-Narrative: The Case of the Two Stevens
Chapter 7 Multiple Threaded Long-Form Television Serial Scripts
GENRE
Chapter 8 Why Genre?
Chapter 9 Working with Genre I and the Thriller
Chapter 10 Working with Genre II: The Melodrama
Chapter 11 Working Against Genre
Chapter 12 The Flexibility of Genre
Chapter 13 Genres of Voice
Chapter 14 The Non-Linear Film
Chapter 15 The Fable: A Case Study of Darkness: The Wizard of Oz and Pan’s Labyrinth
CHARACTER
Chapter 16 Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction
Chapter 17 Stretching the Limits of Character Identification
Chapter 18 Main and Secondary Characters
Chapter 19 Subtext, Action, and Character
Chapter 20 The Primacy of Character Over Action:
The Non-American Screenplay
FORM, TONE, AND THEORY
Chapter 21 The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form
Chapter 22 Agency and the Other
Chapter 23 Character, History, and Politics
Chapter 24 Tone: The Inescapahility of Irony
Chapter 25 Dramatic Voice/Narrative Voice
Chapter 26 Digital Features
Chapter 27 Writing the Narrative Voice
Chapter 28 Rewriting
Chapter 29 Adaptations from Contemporary Literature
CONCLUSION
Chapter 30 Personal Scriptwriting: The Edge
Chapter 31 Personal Scriptwriting: Beyond the Edge
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