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The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer's Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay

by David Howard

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ISBN13: 9780312119089
ISBN10: 0312119089
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In The Tools of Screenwriting, David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling, and reveal the central principles that all good screenplays share. The authors address questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, character development, setting, imagery, and other crucial topics as they apply to the special art of filmmaking.Howard and Mabley also demonstrate how, on a practical level, the tools of screenwriting work in sixteen notable films, including Citizen Cane, E.T., One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rashomon, The Godfather, North by Northwest, Chinatown, and sex, lies, and videotape.

Synopsis:

In "The Tools of Screenwriting," David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling, and reveal the central principles that all good screenplays share. The authors address questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, character development, setting, imagery, and other crucial topics as they apply to the special art of filmmaking.

Howard and Mabley also demonstrate how, on a practical level, the tools of screenwriting work in sixteen notable films, including "Citizen Cane," "E.T.," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Rashomon," "The Godfather," "North by Northwest," "Chinatown," and s"ex, lies," "and videotape."

In "The Tools of Screenwriting," David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling, and reveal the central principles that all good screenplays share. The authors address questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, character development, setting, imagery, and other crucial topics as they apply to the special art of filmmaking.

Howard and Mabley also demonstrate how, on a practical level, the tools of screenwriting work in sixteen notable films, including "Citizen Cane," "E.T.," "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," "Rashomon," "The Godfather," "North by Northwest," "Chinatown," and s"ex, lies," "and videotape."


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Screenwriting is the art of telling stories dramatically - and it can be learned. Although there is no standard formula for writing a screenplay, there are central principles that all good screenplays share. In The Tools of screenwriting, the authors illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling. These elements are guideposts for the aspiring screenwriter, and they can be used in different ways to accomplish a variety of ends. Questions of dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, character development, setting, imagery, and other crucial topics are discussed as they apply to the special art of filmmaking. The authors demonstrate how the tools of screenwriting work in sixteen notable films, including Citizen Kane, E.T., One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Rashomon, The Godfather, North by Northwest, Chinatown, and sex, lies, and videotape. in the analyses of these films, the reader will discover the common elements of compelling screen stories. The Tools of Screen writing is an essential book for anyone who wants to write a script that will be filmed.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289) and index.

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ISBN:
9780312119089
Subtitle:
A Writer's Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
With:
Mabley, Edward
With:
Mabley, Edward
Introduction:
Daniel, Frank
Author:
Mabley, Edward
Author:
Howard, David
Introduction:
Daniel, Frank
Author:
Daniel, Frank
Publisher:
St. Martin's Griffin
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Composition & Creative Writing - Play/Scriptwriting
Subject:
Film - Screenwriting
Subject:
Motion picture authorship
Subject:
Television authorship
Subject:
Film & Video - Screenwriting
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st pbk. ed.
Series Volume:
v. 356
Publication Date:
January 1995
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
298
Dimensions:
8.52x5.42x.83 in. .64 lbs.

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