How Scripts Are Made
Language: English
Published by Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, U.S.A., 1990
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- Title
- How Scripts Are Made
- Author
- Karetnikova, Inga
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL, U.S.A.
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0809313804
- ISBN 13
- 9780809313808
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- cinema
Inga Karetnikova’s method is that of the art teacher: she asks students to study great works in detail, to analyze them, and then to create their own. She stresses that her examination is "interested only in how the scripts are written and what makes them work, not in a cultural or scholarly examination of them." Karetnikova analyzes eight screenplays—TheGodfather, Rashomon, La Strada, Bicycle Thief, Nosferatu, The Servant, Viridiana, Notorious—anda novel written in screenplay form, Kiss of the Spider Woman. Each serves as an example of a particular aspect of screenplay writing: composing scripts, developing characters, constructing suspense, adapting literature to cinematic space and time, and weaving details and motifs within a script.
Karetnikova urges film students to work on their own screenplays while studying her book, reading the suggested scripts and viewing the films based on them to get the most from her method. She provides a series of exercises for each chapter to help students master the skills of composing and writing film treatments, developing screen stories and their characters, organizing scenes, and writing dialogue. Each of the exercises has worked successfully in her own screenplay-writing classes.
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About the Author
Inga Karetnikova is a consultant and writer for the BBC and author of Eisenstein’s Mexican Drawings. A former Guggenheim, Carnegie-Mellon, and Radcliffe Institute Fellow, she has conducted numerous workshops on film and art in colleges and universities across the United States.
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