The Pleasures of Structure
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-4411-0139-6 (ISBN)
For example, the first case study will offer the example of a well written, professional, mainstream movie against which our later and more adventurous examples can be compared. So the lessons we learn examining the animated family adventure movie How To Train Your Dragon lead us directly to ask questions of our second case study, the acclaimed Swedish vampire movie Låt den Rätte Komma In (Let The Right One In). Both movies have protagonists with the same basic problem, the same goal, and they use the same basic structure to tell their stories. Of course they are very different films and they work on their audiences in very different ways. Our linked case studies will expose how simple choices, like reversing the order of elements of the protagonist's transformational arc and shifting ownership of key story beats, has an enormous impact on how we respond to a structural model that is otherwise functionally identical.
Julian Hoxter is the Screenwriting Coordinator and Associate Professor of Screenwriting in the Cinema Department of San Francisco State University, USA. He is an award winning educator and filmmaker whose films have been shown in festivals around the world. He has taught screenwriting and filmmaking in the US and the UK for over 15 years.
Preface
Introduction: American Screenwriting Today
Section One: Principles of Movie Storytelling
The Origins of Story, Part One: Evolution, Storytelling, and Selective Advantage
The Origins of Story, Part Two: Written Culture, Ring Compositions, and the Principle of Parallelism
The Skeleton of a Story: Internal Story Logic
Putting Flesh on a Story's Bones: Narration and Pleasure in the Telling of the Tale
Keeping the Story Flowing: Narrative Economy and Screenplay Format
Modeling Movie Structure: The 'W' Model of Story Structure
Alternative Approaches to Scripting
Revision: What Have We Learned in this Chapter?
Section Two: Case Studies
Act One: First Down Angle (Recognition)
Act Two: From Avoidance to Commitment
Act Two: First Up Angle (Avoidance)
Act Two: Second Down Angle (Commitment)
Act Three: Second Up Angle (Resolution)
How to Train Your Dragon as a Ring
Let the Right One In as a Ring
Winter’s Bone as a Ring
Section Three: Screenwriting, A Critical Glossary
Part One: Screenplay
Part Two: Development
Part Three: The Screenwriting Industry
Part Four: Story Structure
Part Five: Character Development
Conclusion
Index
Zusatzinfo | 25 bw illus |
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Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 363 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4411-0139-X / 144110139X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4411-0139-6 / 9781441101396 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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