Screenwriting techniques

This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced.

What is it that makes humans engage with a dramatic narrative?

Now back in print, this acclaimed biography reassesses a titan of early cinema based on new material released after the fall of the Soviet Union.

Now back in print, the definitive biography of a seminal figure in film history, whom Orson Welles called the greatest of all directors.

In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, "e;Save the Cat!

This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!

Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriters he hired to write the scripts for three of his greatest films: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie.

The Works of Shonda Rhimes, the first book in Bloomsbury's Screen Storytellers series, brings together a collection of essays that look critically at the works of this award-winning writer, producer, and CEO of the global media company, Shondaland.

Creative writing takes on many genres, or forms: fiction, poetry, nonfiction and dramatic writing.

Honest, raw and very funny, this book will take you on an emotional joyride through a screenwriter's creative processes, her pitfalls and breakthroughs, where the boundaries between art and life are blurred.

Roland Schimmelpfennig, vielfach ausgezeichnet und in Deutschland wie international einer der meistgespielten deutschsprachigen Dramatiker, gibt in "Ja und Nein" erstmals ausführlich Auskunft über sein künstlerisches Selbstverständnis und darüber, was Theater ist und sein soll: einfach, verdichtend, ein Kunstwerk, ein Spiel, erzählend, ein Raum für Dialog, ein Gesprächsangebot.

Roland Schimmelpfennig, vielfach ausgezeichnet und in Deutschland wie international einer der meistgespielten deutschsprachigen Dramatiker, gibt in "Ja und Nein" erstmals ausführlich Auskunft über sein künstlerisches Selbstverständnis und darüber, was Theater ist und sein soll: einfach, verdichtend, ein Kunstwerk, ein Spiel, erzählend, ein Raum für Dialog, ein Gesprächsangebot.

Die FEDERWELT ist die Fachzeitschrift für Autorinnen und Autoren.

Anhand zahlreicher Filmbeispiele untersucht McKee klassische Szenen der Filmgeschichte und zeigt Schritt für Schritt auf, nicht wie, sondern warum eine Szene funktioniert und was den Klassiker vom Klischee unterscheidet.

Die "Antigone", vielleicht das erste Problemstück der Literatur, behandelt den moralischen Widerspruch, der sich aus einem Konflikt zwischen politischer Autorität und dem Gesetz des individuellen Gewissens ergibt.

Apart from his many novels, William Dean Howells was a prolific author of plays, especially farces.

The Works of Shonda Rhimes, the first book in Bloomsbury's Screen Storytellers series, brings together a collection of essays that look critically at the works of this award-winning writer, producer, and CEO of the global media company, Shondaland.

Gute Dialoge zu schreiben, ist für jeden Autor eine Herausforderung und muss ständig aufs Neue trainiert werden.

All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labours Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winter's TaleHenry IVHenry V Henry VIHenry VIII King John Richard II Richard IIIAntony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus AndronicusThe Sonnets A Lover's Complaint The Rape of Lucrece Venus and Adonis

Die Drehbuchforschung ist ein junges, sich rasch entwickelndes internationales Forschungsfeld.

Der wichtigste "special effect" des Autorenkinos ist das Image seiner Regisseure.

Dieses Buch liefert eine umfassende Antwort auf das uralte Rätsel, ob es nur eine kleine Anzahl von "Grundgeschichten" auf der Welt gibt.

"Schreiben besteht zu 10 % aus Talent und zu 90 % aus Schweiß.

Viele Menschen träumen davon, ein Buch zu schreiben.

Dieser Selbstlernkurs ist ein kompaktes Einstiegspaket in das kreative Schreiben.

Dieser Selbstlernkurs möchte Ihnen helfen, ein richtig gutes Sachbuch zu schreiben.

Viele Menschen wollen ein Buch schreiben.

Ein Sprichwort sagt: "Schreiben besteht zu 10 % aus Talent und zu 90 % aus Schweiß.

This is the first book to critically examine the recruitment and working practices of screenwriters.

In this book we learn that there is a clear but complex relationship between setting and character on screen.

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like-and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape.

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with principal films, authors, and directors.

This volume explores how to engage audiences both beyond and within the academy more deeply in environmental research through arts-based forms.

Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world.

Shakespeare-Dramen in allen Variationen - neuübersetzt, nachgedichtet, bearbeitet, überschrieben, ganz gegen den Strich gelesen von den wichtigsten Stimmen des deutschsprachigen Gegenwartstheaters: Plinio Bachmann, Gabriella Bußacker, Nuran David Calis, Gesine Danckwart, Helmut Krausser, Albert Ostermaier, Jens Roselt, Roland Schimmelpfennig, Werner Schwab, Marlene Streeruwitz.

The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development provides the first comprehensive overview of international script development practices.

Character drives plot.

The Modernist Screenplay explores the film screenplay as a genre of modernist literature.

This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced.

Robert De Niro at Work is the first critical study to examine how Robert de Niro, perhaps the finest screen actor of his generation, works with screenplays to imagine, prepare and denote his performance.

This book examines the processes of adaptation across a number of intriguing case studies and media.

This handbook is an essential creative, critical and practical guide for students and educators of screen production internationally.

This book philosophically and creatively examines ways in which independent filmmakers may explore, through practice, the discovery and development of a personal voice in the making of their films.

Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film.

Although it is generally believed that the human race appeared around 30,000 to 50,000 years ago, or around 100,000 years ago at most, it actually has a far longer history.

Famed playwright Israel Horovitz has written more than 70 produced plays, which have been translated in more than 30 languages worldwide.

Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world.