Constructing dialogue : screenwriting from Citizen Kane to Midnight in Paris / Mark Axelrod.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Axelrod, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture authorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Bloomsbury, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unlike most screenwriting guides that generally analyze several aspects of screenwriting, Constructing Dialogue is devoted to a more analytical treatment of certain individual scenes and how those scenes were constructed to be the most highly dramatic vis á vis their dialogue. In the art of screenwriting, one cannot separate how the scene is constructed from how the dialogue is written. They are completely interwoven. Each chapter deals with how a particular screenwriter approached dialogue relative to that particular scene's construction. From Citizen Kane to The Fisher King the storylines ha

Contents:

FC; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Author's Note; 1. Citizen Kane (1941): Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles ; 2. Casablanca (1942): Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch ; 3. Sunset Boulevard (1950): Billy Wilder ; 4. North by Northwest (1959): Ernest Lehman ; 5. Jules & Jim (1962): François Truffaut, Jean Gruault; 6. Lolita (1963): Vladimir Nabokov, Stanley Kubrick ; 7. Goldfinger (1964): Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn ; 8. The Graduate (1969): Calder Willingham, Buck Henry ; 9. Midnight Cowboy (1969): Waldo Salt ; 10. Chinatown (1973): Robert Towne

11. Annie Hall (1977): Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman 12. Breaking Away (1979): Steve Tesich ; 13. When Harry Met Sally (1989): Nora Ephron ; 14. The Fisher King (1991): Richard LaGravenese ; 15. Thelma & Louise (1991): Callie Khouri ; 16. Toy Story (1995): Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Joe Ranft, and Alec Sokolow ; 17. Good Will Hunting (1997): Matt Damon, Ben Affleck / Ordinary People (1980): Alvin Sargent ; 18. American Beauty (1999): Alan Ball ; 19. Midnight in Paris (2011): Woody Allen ; Dialogue: A Trailer; Dialogue Exercises; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781441121912

1441121919

9781441169808

1441169806

OCLC:

862050057