Screen adaptation : a scriptwriting handbook /

Screen Adaptation: A Scriptwriting Handbook, Second Edition examines the challenges screenwriters face when adapting novels, plays, and short stories for the screen. Thoroughly updated to include new exercises and examples from current films, this book provides practical, usable information on how t...

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1. Verfasser: Portnoy, Kenneth, 1946-
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston ; Oxford : Focal Press, c1998.
Ausgabe:2nd ed.
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Table of contents
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Principles of Dramatic Writing
  • 3. Characterization
  • 4. Structure
  • 5. Kramer versus Kramer
  • 6. Social Issue
  • 7. Action Adventure and Science Fiction: Jurassic Park and Apollo 13
  • 8. The Short Story.