Alternative Scriptwriting. Successfully Breaking the Rules

✍ Scribed by Ken Dancyger and Jeff Rush (Auth.)

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 416
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Copyright, Page iv
Dedication, Page v
Preface, Pages ix-x
Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition, Page xi
Acknowledgments, Pages xiii-xiv
Chapter 1 - Beyond the Rules, Pages 1-15
Chapter 2 - Structure, Pages 16-28
Chapter 3 - Critique of Restorative Three-Act Form, Pages 29-37
Chapter 4 - Counter-Structure, Pages 38-47
Chapter 5 - More Thoughts on Three Acts: Fifteen Years Later, Pages 48-57
Chapter 6 - Narrative and Anti-Narrative: The Case of the Two Stevens: The Work of Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh, Pages 58-75
Chapter 7 - Working with Genre I, Pages 76-96
Chapter 8 - Working With Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller, Pages 97-119
Chapter 9 - Working Against Genre, Pages 120-141
Chapter 10 - Genres of Voice, Pages 142-153
Chapter 11 - The Non-Linear Film, Pages 154-163
Chapter 12 - Refraining the Active/Passive Character Distinction, Pages 164-176
Chapter 13 - Stretching the Limits of Character Identification, Pages 177-189
Chapter 14 - Main and Secondary Characters, Pages 190-199
Chapter 15 - Subtext, Action, and Character, Pages 200-212
Chapter 16 - The Primacy of Character Over Action: The Non-American Screenplay, Pages 213-226
Chapter 17 - The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form, Pages 227-246
Chapter 18 - Agency and the Other, Pages 247-267
Chapter 19 - Character, History, and Politics, Pages 268-288
Chapter 20 - Tone: The Inescapability of Irony, Pages 289-310
Chapter 21 - Dramatic Voice/Narrative Voice, Pages 311-318
Chapter 22 - Digital Features, Pages 319-334
Chapter 23 - Writing the Narrative Voice, Pages 335-343
Chapter 24 - Rewriting, Pages 344-351
Chapter 25 - Adaptations from Contemporary Literature, Pages 352-364
Chapter 26 - Personal Scriptwriting: The Edge, Pages 365-380
Chapter 27 - Personal Scriptwriting: Beyond the Edge, Pages 381-390
Index, Pages 391-409