Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

✍ Scribed by Ian W. Macdonald (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 282
Series: Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Theoretical Approaches....Pages 12-35
The Orthodox Poetics of Screenwriting....Pages 36-61
The Real World, and Screenwriting as Work....Pages 62-80
The Screen Idea Work Group: Emmerdale....Pages 81-110
The Individual, Their Creativity and the Poetics....Pages 111-131
Hitchcock’s Forgotten Screenwriter: Eliot Stannard....Pages 132-160
God Is in the Details: The Text Object....Pages 161-189
The Poetics of the Screen Idea: Nostromo....Pages 190-215
Screenwriting Studies....Pages 216-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-271

✦ Subjects

Film and Television Studies; Film History; Screenwriting; Genre; Media Studies; Poetry and Poetics

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