21st-Century Screenplay - Softcover

Linda Aronson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1742371361 ISBN 13: 9781742371368

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2010

Synopsis

The 21st Century Screenplay is the much-expanded successor to the author's Scriptwriting Updated. Many books in one, it offers a comprehensive, highly practical manual of screenwriting from the classic to the avant-garde, from The African Queen and Tootsie, to 21 Grams, Pulp Fiction, Memento and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Whether you want to write short films, features, adaptations, genre films, ensemble films, blockbusters or art house movies, this book takes you all the way from choosing the brilliant idea to plotting, writing and rewriting. Featuring a range of insider survival tips on time-effective writing, creativity under pressure and rising to the challenge of international competition, The 21st Century Screenplay is essential reading for newcomer and veteran alike.

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About the Author

Linda Aronson has won awards as scriptwriter, playwright and novelist. Primarily a working writer, she has over twenty years experience, with credits in feature film, TV series and serials, mini-series,  children's TV, radio drama, stage plays fiction, and TV drama-documentary. Her fiction has been published in nine countries.
Linda teaches screenwriting and script analysis for leading film schools and film industry organisations all over the world and works internationally as a script consultant. Her award-winning book Screenwriting Updated (Los Angeles, 2001)  was widely acclaimed as being the first book to provide practical strategies for writing complex non-linear and multiple protagonist scripts and fiction.
The 21st Century Screenplay: a comprehensive guide to writing tomorrow's films (2010)  sold out in the UK before the consignment of books arrived at the warehouse from the docks is, along with Screenwriting Updated, used by professional writers and film schools all over the world.  
The book has been widely celebrated and bears endorsements from Andrew Bovell,  Robin Swicord and Linda Seger, who says of it, "A brilliant book. Linda Aronson is one of the great and important voices on screenwriting.'
Other books by Linda Aronson on writing are TV Writing:The Ground Rules of Series, Serials and Sitcom (AFTRS/Allen and Unwin, 2000)and Writing with Imagination (Macmillan Education). Linda's contribution to ed Tom Jeffrey's collection of essays for producers,  Film Business is 'Script Mechanics: Understanding and Fixing the Script'
Linda is currently writing nonlinear multiple storyline short film pieces for immersive virtual reality applications.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1742371361
• ISBN 13: 9781742371368
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 432