Neal Bell (USA Duke University)

How To Write A Horror Movie

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Produktbeschreibung

How to Write a Horror Movie is a close look at an always-popular (but often disrespected) genre. It focuses on the screenplay and acts as a guide to bringing scary ideas to cinematic life using examples from great (and some not-so-great) horror movies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780367151652
• ISBN-10: 0367151650
• Artikelnr.: 59077873

Autorenporträt

Neal Bell is a writer and professor of play and screenwriting at Duke University and has received grants from the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Winner of an Obie Award for sustained excellence in playwriting, he's been a script consultant for HBO, and also received an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Play for Spatter Pattern.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
A note on transctiption of dialogue and screenplay format
Chapter 1: "Who Goes There?": A Brief Introduction to Horror
Chapter 2: What Scares You?
Chapter 3: Basic Horror Movie Structure
Chapter 4: Building Act One
Chapter 5: The Changed World of Act Two
Chapter 6: Ending and Beginning
Chapter 7: Dialogue
Chapter 8: Fearful Landscapes
Chapter 9: Humor in Horror
Chapter 10: "Beyond This Point Are Monsters" - Digging Up Inspiration
Chapter 11: Politics and Global Horror
Chapter 12: "Our name is Legion" - Varieties of Horror
Chapter 13: "Dead Man's Chest" - The Economics of Horror
Chapter 14: The Future of Horror
Index