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The Instinctive Screenplay: Watching and Writing Screen Drama
Sam North
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Description for The Instinctive Screenplay: Watching and Writing Screen Drama
Hardback. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137607508
SKU
V9781137607508
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About Sam North
Sam North is an award-winning writer and is Senior Lecturer of English at the University of Exeter, UK.
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