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The architecture of story : a technical guide for the dramatic writer / Will Dunne.
LIBRA PN1661 .D858 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunne, Will, author.
- Series:
- Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama--Technique.
- Drama.
- Playwriting.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 207 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Through his workshops and his book The Dramatic Writer's Companion, Will Dunne has helped thousands of playwrights and screenwriters develop successful scripts. Now, in The Architecture of Story, he shows them how to master the building blocks of dramatic storytelling "by analyzing a trio of award-winning contemporary American plays: Doubt: A Parable by John Patrick Shanley, Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks, and The Clean House by Sarah Ruhl. Each self-contained chapter focuses on one storytelling component, ranging from "Title" and "Main Event" to "Emotional Environment" and "Crisis Decision." Dunne explores each component in detail, demonstrating how it has been successfully handled in each play and comparing and contrasting techniques. The chapters conclude with questions to help writers evaluate and improve their own scripts. The result is a nonlinear reference guide that lets writers work at their own pace and choose the topics that interest them as they develop new scripts. This flexible, interactive structure is designed to meet the needs of writers at all stages of writing and at all levels of experience. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Genre
- Style
- Dramatic focus
- Rules of the game
- Framework
- Stage directions
- Other script elements
- Title
- Characters
- Offstage population
- Plot
- Character arcs
- Story arc and main event
- Subject and theme
- Dialogue
- Visual imagery
- Physical realm
- Emotional environment
- Social context
- Laws and customs
- Economics
- Power structure
- Spiritual realm
- Backstory
- Point of attack
- Inciting event and quest
- Central conflict
- What's at stake
- Strategies and tactics
- Pointers and plants
- Reversals
- Crisis decision
- Climax and resolution.
- ISBN:
- 9780226181912
- 9780226181882
- 022618188X
- 022618191X
- OCLC:
- 919341774
- Publisher Number:
- 99967721947
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