Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting
Release date:	October 2013
First published:	2013
Authors:	I MacDonald • Ian W. MacDonald
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	271
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-39228-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Creative writing & creative writing guides Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Promotions
LSN:	0-230-39228-8
Barcode:	9780230392281

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