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Creative screenwriting : Understanding emotional structure. Christina Kallas ; translated by John William Howard.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: xi, 240 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780230221406 (hbk.)
  • 9780230221413 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Kreatives Drehbuchschreiben. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 808.2/3 22
LOC classification:
  • PN 1996 .K21513 2010
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 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 to the Complete Screenplay -- In Place of an Epilogue: A Plea For the Screenwriter.
Summary: "Kallas proposes an original approach to writing for the screen. Both theory and method aims at exciting the imagination to inspire and dramatize stories with thematic richness, emotional depth and narrative rhythm. Accompanying exercises support the book and enable writers to create stories out of emotions and images"--
Item type: General circulation books
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General circulation books Presbyterian University of East Africa - Main Library General Stacks Non-fiction PN 1996 .K21513 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2015-4671
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 200-204) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 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 to the Complete Screenplay -- In Place of an Epilogue: A Plea For the Screenwriter.

"Kallas proposes an original approach to writing for the screen. Both theory and method aims at exciting the imagination to inspire and dramatize stories with thematic richness, emotional depth and narrative rhythm. Accompanying exercises support the book and enable writers to create stories out of emotions and images"--

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