Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen
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Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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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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Yes, you can access Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen by Andrew Tidmarsh in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Media & Performing Arts & Literary Criticism in Drama. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Methuen Drama
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781408185827
eBook ISBN
9781408184936
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Literary Criticism in Drama

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1 The Building Blocks of Narrative
  7. Chapter 2 Will Versus Fate: Greek Tragedy and the Fundamentals
  8. Chapter 3 Let’s See Blood: Roman Tragedy and Quentin Tarantino
  9. Chapter 4 Revenge is Sweet: Elizabethan Tragedy
  10. Chapter 5 Mashing It Up: Desperate Housewives, Jacobean Tragedy and Buffy
  11. Chapter 6 The Plate of Sardines: New Greek Comedy, Menander and Frasier
  12. Chapter 7 Archetype or Stereotype? Plautus, Comedy of Contradictions and The Sketch Show
  13. Chapter 8 Happily Ever After: Romantic Comedy from Shakespeare to Sleepless in Seattle
  14. Chapter 9 Minding Our Manners: The Country Wife and Mean Girls
  15. Chapter 10 Nothing Ever Happens: Chekhov and the Contemporary Independent Comedy
  16. Chapter 11 Arrivals and Departures: The Chivalric Romance and the Pastoral
  17. A Final Thought
  18. APPENDIX 1 Miscellaneous Genres and Hybrids
  19. APPENDIX 2 Other Theories and Other Approaches
  20. Notes