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1 online resource |
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Palgrave studies in screenwriting |
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Palgrave studies in screenwriting.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical Approaches -- 3. The orthodox poetics of screenwriting -- 4. The real world and screenwriting as work -- 5. The Screen Idea Work Group: "Emmerdale" -- 6. The individual, their creativity and the poetics -- 7. Hitchcock's forgotten screenwriter: Eliot Stannard -- 8. God is in the details: the text object -- 9. The poetics of the screen idea: "Nostromo" -- 10. Screenwriting studies |
| Summary |
"Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea" is a new and original investigation into how screenwriting works, showing how to understand, study and research screenwriting and screen narrative production. It explores three facets -- the practices, the creative 'poetics' and the texts -- to re-conceptualise and join together our understanding of screenwriting and development. These facets serve the 'screen idea', that sense of something that might become a film or television show, and the focus for the beliefs and received wisdom behind the poetics. Macdonald applies a range of film, media and creative theories to the study and research of screenwriting, and includes three new, original case studies: story development in the successful ITV soap "Emmerdale", the silent film work of Hitchcock's first major screenwriter Eliot Stannard, and David Lean's last, unfinished 'magnum opus' "Nostromo." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Publisher supplied information |
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Stannard, Eliot -- Criticism and interpretation
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Lean, David, 1908-1991. Nostromo
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| SUBJECT |
Emmerdale (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00037535
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Emmerdale (Television program) fast |
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Motion picture authorship.
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Television authorship.
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Films, cinema.
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Television.
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Screenwriting techniques.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
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REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
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Performing Arts.
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Motion picture authorship
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Television authorship
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230392298 |
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0230392296 |
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1306179092 |
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9781306179096 |
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1349351911 |
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9781349351916 |
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