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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Kallas, Christina. Creative screenwriting. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (OCoLC)760052337 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Christina Kallas |
| ISBN: | 9780230221406 0230221408 9780230221413 0230221416 |
| OCLC Number: | 565686891 |
| Language Note: | Translated into English. |
| Description: | xi, 240 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue -- Pre-credit sequence: theoretical roots of creative screenwriting -- The beginning: the trick of creative screenwriting -- The middle: techniques of creative screenwriting -- The end: application of creative screenwriting and emotional structure to the complete screenplay -- In place of an epilogue: the era of the screenwriter. |
| Other Titles: | Kreatives Drehbuchschreiben. |
| Responsibility: | Christina Kallas ; translated by John William Howard. |
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'Smart. Thorough. Insightful. Kallas has an authoritative understanding of creative issues, historical issues, and the intellectual issues about screenwriting and covers them with a sense of the head and the heart of the subject. Filled with exercises, analysis, and thoughtful discussion, the book is an important addition for anyone wanting to learn more and write with more emotional depth.' - Linda Seger, script consultant and author of Making A Good Script Great 'A great screenplay is worth its weight in gold - not just to its author, but also its producer, director, actors and, most important of all, its ultimate audience. Creative Screenwriting is a great place for any screenwriter to mine for treasure. It's filled with insights, alternatives, stimulating exercises and springboards for your imagination.' - David Howard, Founding Director of the Graduate Screenwriting Program at USC and author of Tools of Screenwriting 'This book is long overdue - it finally exposes the emperor's new clothes of narrative screenwriting. The exaggerated emphasis on the narrative structure in screenwriting analysis is both misguided and tyrannical. It is the emotional journey that matters, not the narrative - as most moviegoers would tell you. The narrative is needed only as a skeleton to hang the real stuff upon, and Christina Kallas' insightful book provides a rare glimpse into the real stuff - the viewer's emotional journey and the way for the writer to provide for it.' - Milcho Manchevski, writer-director of Golden Lion winnder, Academy-Award-nominated Before the Rain 'A most erudite, encyclopedic and wise synthesis of the craft of screenwriting, which both novice and seasoned writer would do well to investigate. A fascinating overview of notions of drama and techniques, ancient and modern which should open writing horizons, and redefine the craft of screenwriting, inject it with the life, philosophy and emotional wisdom it increasingly lacks.' - Jeff Gross, novelist, film director and writer of some forty screenplays Read more...
