Research Catalog

Title

Alternative scriptwriting : successfully breaking the rules / Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush.

Author

Dancyger, Ken.

Publication

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Focal Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rush, Jeff.

Description

xiv, 409 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Creative writing
• Motion picture plays > Technique
• Motion picture authorship
• Drehbuch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 meldodrama 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.

ISBN

• 0240808495 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780240808499 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006025737

OCLC

• ocm70867021
• 70867021
• SCSB-5277174

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries