The 21st-Century Screenplay is the long-awaited, much-expanded successor to the author's internationally acclaimed Scriptwriting Updated. Many books in one, it offers a comprehensive, highly practical manual of screenwriting from the classic to the avant-garde, from The African Queen and Tootsie, to 21 Grams, Pulp Fiction, Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Whether you want to write short films, features, adaptations, genre films, ensemble films, blockbusters or art house movies, this book takes you all the way from choosing the brilliant idea to plotting, writing and rewriting.
Featuring a range of insider survival tips on time-effective writing, creativity under pressure and rising to the challenge of international competition, The 21st-Century Screenplay is essential reading for newcomer and veteran alike.
'A brilliant book. Linda Aronson is one of the great and important voices on screenwriting.' - Dr Linda Seger, author of Making a Good Script Great
'A VERY WONDERFUL book. I love the strategies for plumbing the unconscious story mind. There's no other book that gives such an in-depth analysis of the 'bone structure' for all these various kinds of narratives.' - Robin Swicord, Little Women, The Jane Austen Book Club, Memoirs of a Geisha
'It's a huge achievement, an incredibly comprehensive analysis of what the screenwriter does, of what can go right and what can go wrong and how to fix it when it does. I highly recommend it.' - Andrew Bovell, Lantana, Blessed, Edge of Darkness
By:
Linda Aronson
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 32mm
Weight: 870g
ISBN: 9781742371368
ISBN 10: 1742371361
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 01 July 2010
Recommended Age: From
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Figures List of development strategies Foreword Preface Part 1 Getting Ideas 1 Creativity and general problem solving 2 Triggering good ideas fast from screen models 3 Triggering good ideas fast from other models 4 What film are we in? Part 2 Conventional Narrative Structure 5 Overview of conventional narrative structure 6 Planning a conventional, three-act structure 7 Normality and disturbance (the set-up) 8 Action line or relationship line? 9 Protagonists and characters who seem like protagonists but are not 10 One protagonist, many antagonists 11 Characterisation 12 The plan and first-act turning point 13 The second act 14 The third act: Climax, resolution, symbolism and myth 15 Structural analysis of The Piano Part 3 Practical Plotting 16 The nature of the task 17 Close plotting: Beats, interweaving and condensing 18 Plotting: Tips,
