- 224 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen
About this book
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. Including genre-specific exercises in every chapter helping the reader to write and devise, Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen is for all those with an interest in story and can be used by writers, actors and directors alike – whether students or experienced professionals – to make the blank page appear less terrifying.
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Table of contents
- Cover-Page
- Half-Title
- Title
- dedi
- epi
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 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
- A Final Thought
- Appendix 1: Miscellaneous Genres and Hybrids
- Appendix 2: Other Theories and Other Approaches
- Notes
- Copyright