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Genre : a guide to writing for stage and screen / Andrew Tidmarsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tidmarsh, Andrew, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drama--Technique.
- Drama.
- Playwriting.
- Motion picture plays--Technique.
- Motion picture plays.
- Motion picture authorship.
- Physical Description:
- 104 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014.
- Summary:
- What makes tragedy tragic? What makes comedy comic? What does Much Ado About Nothing have in common with When Harry Met Sally? Seneca with Desperate Housewives? Goldoni with Frasier? In Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen Andrew Tidmarsh explores these questions and more. Investigating how the relationship between form and content brings endless discoveries and illuminations about how narrative works, this entertaining and accessible book looks at how storytelling in film and theatre has evolved and how an appreciation of form can bring the writer, director or actor a solid foundation and a sense of security, which ultimately assists the creative process.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Building Blocks of Narrative
- 2. Will Versus Fate: Greek Tragedy and the Fundamentals
- 3. Let's See Blood: Roman Tragedy and Quentin Tarantino
- 4. Revenge is Sweet: Elizabethan Tragedy
- 5. Mashing It Up: Desperate Housewives, Jacobean Tragedy and Buffy
- 6. The Plate of Sardines: New Greek Comedy, Menander and Frasier
- 7. Archetype or Stereotype? Plautus, Comedy of Contradictions and The Sketch Show
- 8. Happily Ever After: Romantic Comedy from Shakespeare to Sleepless in Seattle
- 9. Minding Our Manners: The Country Wife and Mean Girls
- 10. Nothing Ever Happens: Chekhov and the Contemporary Independent Comedy
- 11. Arrivals and Departures: The Chivalric Romance and the Pastoral.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Unger Gasser Family Endowment for the Study of Screenwriting, Television and New Media.
- ISBN:
- 9781408185827
- 1408185822
- OCLC:
- 857981842
- Publisher Number:
- 99993277013
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