Story : substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting /

Story : substance, structure, style, and the principles of screenwriting /

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Author / Creator:	McKee, Robert, 1941-
Edition:	[Paperback ed.].
Imprint:	London : Methuen, 1999.
Description:	466 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Methuenfilm Methuen film. Fire Escape Films Reference Collection.
Subject:	Motion picture authorship. Motion picture plays -- Technique. Motion picture authorship. Motion picture plays -- Technique.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8460540

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Other authors / contributors:	Fire Escape Films Reference Collection.
ISBN:	0413715604 9780413715609 0413715507 9780413715500
Notes:	Originally published: 1998. Filmography: pages 423-455. Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-422) and index.
Summary:	Writing for the screen is quirky business. A writer must labor meticulously over his or her prose, yet very little of that prose is ever heard by filmgoers. The few words that do reach the audience, in the form of the characters' dialogue, are, according to Robert McKee, best left to last in the writing process. In this book, McKee puts into book form what he has been teaching screenwriters for years in his seminar on story structure, which is considered by many to be a prerequisite to the film biz. Legions of writers flock to Hollywood in search of easy money, calculating the best way to get rich quick. This book is not for them. McKee is passionate about the art of screenwriting. No one needs yet another recipe book on how to reheat Hollywood leftovers, he writes. We need a rediscovery of the underlying tenets of our art, the guiding principles that liberate talent. Story is a true path to just such a rediscovery. In it, McKee offers so much sound advice, drawing from sources as wide ranging as Aristotle and Casablanca, Stanislavski and Chinatown, that it is impossible not to come away feeling immeasurably better equipped to write a screenplay and infinitely more inspired to write a brilliant one.

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Call Number:	PN1996 .M465 1999
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