Alternative Scriptwriting Successfully Breaking the Rules

Name: Alternative Scriptwriting Successfully Breaking the Rules
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ISBN: 9780240808499

ISBN-10: 0240808495

ISBN-13: 9780240808499

Edition: 4th 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Ken Dancyger, Jeff Rush

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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.

Book details

List price: $35.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition


Acknowledgments



Beyond the Rules



Structure



Critique of Restorative Three-Act Form



Counter-Structure



More Thoughts on Three Acts: Fifteen Years Later



Narrative and Anti-Narrative: The Case of the Two Stevens: The Work of Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh



Working with Genre I



Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller



Working Against Genre



Genres of Voice



The Non-Linear Film



Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction



Stretching the Limits of Character Identification



Main and Secondary Characters



Subtext, Action, and Character



The Primacy of Character Over Action: The Non-American Screenplay



The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form



Agency and the Other



Character, History, and Politics



Tone: The Inescapability of Irony



Dramatic Voice/Narrative Voice



Digital Features



Writing the Narrative Voice



Rewriting



Adaptations from Contemporary Literature



Personal Scriptwriting: The Edge



Personal Scriptwriting: Beyond the Edge


Index