Alternative Scriptwriting

Contemporary Storytelling for the Screen

Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt, Jeff Rush

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000804126
• Edición: 6
• Categoría: Medios de comunicación y artes escénicas
• Categoría: Películas y vídeos

The three-act structure is so last century! Unlike other screenwriting books, this unique storytelling guide pushes you to break free of tired, formulaic writing by bending or breaking the rules of storytelling as we know them. This new edition dives into all the key aspects of scriptwriting, including structure, genre, character, form, and tone.

Authors Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt, and Jeff Rush explore myriad alternatives to the traditional three-act story structure, going beyond teaching you "how to tell a story" by teaching you how to write against conventional formulas to produce original, exciting material. Fully revised and updated, the book includes new examples from contemporary and classic cinema and episodic series, as well as additional content on strategies for plot, character, and genre; an exploration of theatrical devices in film; and approaches to scriptwriting with case studies of prolific storytellers such as Billy Wilder, Kelly Reichardt, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Kathryn Bigelow.

Ideal for students of screenwriting and professional screenwriters wishing to develop their craft and write original scripts.

Índice

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Acknowledgments for the Sixth Edition
• Foreword
• Chapter 1 Beyond the Rules
• Chapter 2 Structure
• Chapter 3 Critique of Restorative Three-Act Form
• Chapter 4 Counter-Structure
• Chapter 5 The Three-Act Spectrum
• Chapter 6 Strategies for Plot and Character: Surprise, Triangulation, and Subtext
• Chapter 7 Multiple Threaded, Long-Form Episodic Scripts
• Chapter 8 Why Genre?
• Chapter 9 Working with Genre
• Chapter 10 Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller
• Chapter 11 Working with Genre III: Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges
• Chapter 12 Working Against Genre
• Chapter 13 The Flexibility of Genre
• Chapter 14 Genres of Voice
• Chapter 15 The Nonlinear Film
• Chapter 16 The Fable, a Case Study of Darkness: The Wizard of Oz and Pan’s Labyrinth
• Chapter 17 Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction
• Chapter 18 Stretching the Limits of Character Identification
• Chapter 19 Main and Secondary Characters
• Chapter 20 Subtext, Action, and Character
• Chapter 21 Exceptional but Opaque Characters in Flattened Scripts
• Chapter 22 The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form
• Chapter 23 Theatricality on Screen
• Chapter 24 Tone: The Inescapability of Irony
• Chapter 25 Dramatic Voice/Narrative Voice
• Chapter 26 Writing the Narrative Voice
• Chapter 27 Regionalism vs Commercialism: Kelly Reichardt, Eugene Martin, and Kathryn Bigelow
• Chapter 28 Adaptations from Literature
• Chapter 29 Rewriting
• Chapter 30 Personal Scriptwriting: The Edge
• Chapter 31 Personal Scriptwriting: The Short Film
• Film and Director Name Index
• Subject Index