Ken Dancyger, Jeff Rush

Alternative Scriptwriting

Rewriting the Hollywood Formula

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Produktbeschreibung

Alternative Scriptwriting 4E is an insightful and inspiring book on screenwriting concerned with challenging you to take creative risks with genre, tone, character, and structure. Concerned with exploring alternative approaches beyond the traditional three-act structure, Alternative Scriptwriting first defines conventional approach, suggests alternatives, then provides case studies. These contemporary examples and case studies demonstrate what works, what doesn't, and why.
Because the film industry as well as the public demand greater and greater creativity, one must go beyond the traditional three-act restorative and predictable plot to test your limits and break new creative ground. Rather than teaching writing in a tired formulaic manner, this book elevates the subject and provides inspiration to reach new creative heights.
Alternative Scriptwriting 4E covers:
The melodrama and the thriller
Adaptations from contemporary literature
Writing non-fictional narratives for the feature documentary
An in-depth exploration of point-of-view and perspective as expressive of the film writer's voice
Voice-oriented genres--docudrama, the fable and experimental narrative
Non-linear storytelling-the narrative strategies that are necessary to make an open-architecture story work
Considerations for writing for DV that speak to the flexibility and improvisation this medium allows

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Focal Press
• 4th ed.
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780240808499
• ISBN-10: 0240808495
• Artikelnr.: 22102077

Autorenporträt

Ken Dancyger is the author of numerous books on screenwriting, editing, and production. He conducts screenwriting forums and workshops in North America, Europe, and Asia. A past chair of Undergraduate studies in the Department of Film and Television at NYU, he is currently Professor of Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Jeff Rush is an associate professor at Temple University's Department of Film & Media Arts. He has served as director of the MFA program and as Department Chair in Film & Media Arts. He received an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing from the American Film Institute and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop. In addition to teaching, Jeff has worked as a freelance screenwriter and has published numerous articles and books.

Inhaltsangabe

Beyond the Rules; Structure; Critique of Restorative Three-Act Form; Counter Structure; Narrative and Anti-Narrative; Working with Genre 1; Working with Genre 2; Working Against Genre; 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 Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form; Character, History and Politics; Tone; Dramatic Voice/Narrative Voice; Digital Features; Writing the Narrative Voice; Rewriting; Adaptations from Contemporary Literature; Personal Scriptwriting: The Edge; Beyond the Edge;