Death and Life of Drama Reflections on Writing and Human Nature

Name: Death and Life of Drama Reflections on Writing and Human Nature
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ISBN: 9780292709645

ISBN-10: 0292709641

ISBN-13: 9780292709645

Edition: 2005

Authors: Lance Lee

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"This is an intelligent, practical, and interesting study of the screenwriting art and craft. . . . Lee's explorations into underlying philosophy and the psychological intricacies of character behavior and story consequences are so well developed they could easily be taken as case histories of real people and real events. One can scarcely have higher praise for [this] cogent analysis of the moviemaker's art." -Robert Foshko, Head of Screenwriting, Department of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas at Austin "Lee presents an intelligent, historically informed discussion of how and why some films are inherently better than others. . . . He gives audiences and those of us who teach film some…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface



Immediate Issues



By the Ocean of Time-- Time- The Argument We Are Caught In- Time and Drama- Slow vs. Swift



The Heavy as Opposed to . . .-- The Heavy vs. the Exhilarating- Freud, Civilization, and the Heavy- The Descent into the Heavy



Moral Substance and Ambiguity-- Morality and Screenplays?- Typing and Volition in . . .- The Heavy and Moral . . .- But What Are We Morally Ambiguous About?



Complexity vs. Fullness-- Belief vs. Disbelief: Complexity- Fullness- Typing, Volition, and Fullness- Endings- A Diagram



The Cooked and the Raw



The Cooked and the Raw-- Cooked Emotion- The Raw- Blending the Cooked and the Raw- Antecedents



The Smart and the Dumb-- Flat and Round- Hamlet and the Dumb- John Nash and the Smart- Plot-Handling Implications



The Lost Poetics of Comedy



The Lost Poetics of Comedy-- The Comic Universe- Winnicott and Play- Some Diagrams- The Two Roads- The Bones of the Comic Angle of Vision- The Cooked and Comedy- The New Beginning in Comedy- Another Diagram- The Smart and Dumb in Comedy



The Nature of Dramatic Action



The Weight of the Past-- What Is the Past?- High Noon- Lantana- Wild Strawberries- Lifting Weights



The Weight of the Wrong Decision-- The Wrong Decision in the Past- The Wrong Decision in the Present- True Heroines and Heroes and False



The Nature of the Hero's Journey-- Campbell's Hero- The Dramatic Hero



Arresting Life



Complying with the False



Awakening



Confused Growth-and the Pursuit of Error



Failure of the False Solution



The Discovery of the True Solution



The Heroic Deed



Suffering



The New Life



The Death and Life of Drama



The Death and Life of Drama


Prometheus in Athens, Gladiator in Rome- Shakespeare in Elizabeth's London


The Argument We Are Having with Ourselves


Appendix


A Case Study: Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander


Notes


Film and Drama List


Index