Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

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Springer, 30 oct. 2013 - 271 pages
A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new case studies on the successful ITV soap Emmerdale, Hitchcock's first major screenwriter and David Lean's unfinished film, Nostromo.
 

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List ofFigures Acknowledgements
Introduction
Theoretical Approaches
The OrthodoxPoeticsof Screenwriting 4 The Real World and Screenwriting as Work
Emmerdale
EliotStannard 8 God Is in the Details The Text Object 9 The Poetics of the Screen Idea Nostromo
Screenwriting Studies
Appendices
References
Index
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À propos de l'auteur (2013)

Dr Ian W. Macdonald worked for the BBC, IBA, London Weekend Television, and the British Film Institute before becoming Head of the Northern Film School at Leeds Met in 1992, joining the University of Leeds in 2006. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Screenwriting and co-founder of the Screenwriting Research Network (www.screenwritingresearch.com).

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