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The Instinctive Screenplay: Watching and Writing Screen Drama

Hardback

Main Details

Title The Instinctive Screenplay: Watching and Writing Screen Drama
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Sam North
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:212
Dimensions(mm): Height 210,Width 148
Category/GenreFilm scripts and screenplays
ISBN/Barcode 9781137607508
ClassificationsDewey:808.23
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 15 bw illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Red Globe Press
Publication Date 4 July 2017
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

What is it that makes humans engage with a dramatic narrative? Is it linked to our primitive selves, contained within our instinctive experience? This innovative text argues that understanding how and why our human instincts are brought into play as we watch screen drama is the key to writing it. Analysing four powerful instincts - willpower, logic, morality and emotion - Sam North explores how they determine our level of involvement in their drama, and how screenwriters can use them to develop their craft. Including a variety of both well-known and less famous examples, from The Shawshank Redemption to Samira Makhmalbaf's The Apple, this book offers a fresh new approach to thinking about, discussing and writing screenplays.

Author Biography

Sam North is an award-winning writer and is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Exeter, UK.