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Story : substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting / Robert McKee.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Methuen filmPublisher: [York?] : Methuen, 2014Copyright date: ©1998Description: 466 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0413715604
  • 9780413715609
Other title:
  • Substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.23 21
LOC classification:
  • PN1996 .M465 2014
Other classification:
  • AP 50600
Contents:
The writer and the art of story. The story problem -- The elements of story. The structure spectrum -- Structure and setting -- Structure and genre -- Structure and character -- Structure and meaning -- The principles of story design. The substance of story -- The inciting incident -- Act design -- Scene design -- Scene analysis -- Composition -- Crisis, climax, resolution -- The writer at work. The principle of antagonism -- Exposition -- Problems and solutions -- Character -- The text -- A writer's method.
Summary: Story provides insight and inspiration for screen and television writers, novelists, playwrights, journalists - anyone with a story to tell.
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Books Books SPAA Library - 1st Floor General Collection PN1996 .M465 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0007188

Originally published: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-422), filmography (pages 423-455) and index.

The writer and the art of story. The story problem -- The elements of story. The structure spectrum -- Structure and setting -- Structure and genre -- Structure and character -- Structure and meaning -- The principles of story design. The substance of story -- The inciting incident -- Act design -- Scene design -- Scene analysis -- Composition -- Crisis, climax, resolution -- The writer at work. The principle of antagonism -- Exposition -- Problems and solutions -- Character -- The text -- A writer's method.

Story provides insight and inspiration for screen and television writers, novelists, playwrights, journalists - anyone with a story to tell.

Text in English.

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