Writing the Screenplay

Writing the Screenplay: TV and Film, Second Edition

Wadsworth

Alan Armer , California State University, Northridge

Paperbound © 1993
Market rights: Occasional Intern'l Sales Oka*
ISBN: 0-534-16668-7
Publication Status: IN PRINT

Covers the essential steps needed to create dramatic scripts for TV and film: visual thinking, characters and plotting, story structure and conflict, dialog, formats.

* Examples: Throughout frequent examplesÜincluding script excerptsÜfrom films and TV, some classics, some recentÜmany are new.

* Comprehensive treatment of dialog: Includes two chapters, with emphasis on economy of dialog in screenplays (Chapters 6 and 7).

* Marketplace information: Launching Your Career (Chapter 12) offers realistic information and advice on how-to sell screenplays.

Writer Revelations: Four top professionals present their personal techniques and principles in guest essays: * Oscar-winner Paddy Cheyefski on structure (Chapter 3) * Oscar-winner Frank Pierson on character (Chapter 5) * executive producer George Eckstein on dialog (Chapter 7) * Kathy McWhorter on today's market for writers (Chapter 13)

* In-text learning aids: presummaries (in chapter introductions); summaries called "Highlights" (at the ends of chapters); checklist called "Twenty Questions" (at the end of the text); corrected version of scriptwriting project in Chapter 10 (Appendix); suggested readings and glossary (at the end of the text).

Published in English

Size: 336, Dimensions: 7 3/8 x 9 1/4

US List Price: US $28.00
Alan Armer , California State University, Northridge. M.A., University of California, Los Angeles

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