Alternative Scriptwriting 4E is an insightful and inspiring book on screenwriting concerned with challenging you to take creative risks with genre, tone, character, and structure. Concerned with exploring alternative approaches beyond the traditional...
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Alternative Scriptwriting 4E is an insightful and inspiring book on screenwriting concerned with challenging you to take creative risks with genre, tone, character, and structure. Concerned with exploring alternative approaches beyond the traditional three-act structure, Alternative Scriptwriting first defines conventional approach, suggests alternatives, then provides case studies. These contemporary examples and case studies demonstrate what works, what doesn't, and why. Because the film industry as well as the public demand greater and greater creativity, one must go beyond the traditional
Cover; Alternative Scriptwriting: Successfully Breaking the Rules; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition; Acknowledgments; 1 Beyond the Rules; 2 Structure; 3 Critique of Restorative Three-Act Form; 4 Counter-Structure; 5 More Thoughts on Three Acts: Fifteen Years Later; 6 Narrative and Anti-Narrative: The Case of the Two Stevens: The Work of Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh; 7 Working with Genre I; 8 Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller; 9 Working Against Genre; 10 Genres of Voice; 11 The Non-Linear Film
12 Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction13 Stretching the Limits of Character Identification; 14 Main and Secondary Characters; 15 Subtext, Action, and Character; 16 The Primacy of Character Over Action: The Non-American Screenplay; 17 The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form; 18 Agency and the Other; 19 Character, History, and Politics; 20 Tone: The Inescapability of Irony; 21 Dramatic Voice/Narrative Voice; 22 Digital Features; 23 Writing the Narrative Voice; 24 Rewriting; 25 Adaptations from Contemporary Literature; 26 Personal Scriptwriting: The Edge
