The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer's Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
Language: English
Published by St. Martin's Griffin, 1995
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- Title
- The Tools of Screenwriting: A Writer's Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
- Author
- Howard, David; Mabley, Edward
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312119089
- ISBN 13
- 9780312119089
The definitive guide to cinematic storytelling―featuring practical analysis of sixteen classic films.
In The Tools of Screenwriting, David Howard and Edward Mabley illuminate the essential elements of cinematic storytelling and reveal the central principles that all great screenplays share. The authors address dramatic structure, plot, dialogue, character development, setting, imagery, and other crucial topics that can be applied to the art of filmmaking.
Howard and Mabley also demonstrate how these tools work on a practical level through in-depth breakdowns of 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.
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About the Author
Edward Mabley, besides being the author of Dramatic Construction, wrote, among other works, the play Glad Tidings and the text of the grand opera The Plough and the Stars (after the play by Sean O'Casey). He wrote radio and television plays, directed in television, and taught at the New School for Social Research in New York. He died in 1984.
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