Alternative Scriptwriting Beyond the Hollywood Formula, 5th Edition

Contents
INTRODUCTION


1.Beyond the Rules
STRUCTURE


2.Structure

3.Critique or Restorative. Three-Act Form

4.Counter Structure

5.More Thoughts on Three Acts: 15 Years Later

6.Narrative and Anti-Narrative: The case of the two Stevens: The Work of Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh

7.Multiple Thread Long Form Televisoin Serial Scripts
GENRE


8.Why Genre? (New chapter)

9.Working with Genre I

10.Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller
11.Working Against Genre

12. The Flexibility of Genre )New chapter)

13. Genres of Voice

14. The Non-Linear Film

15. The Fable: A case study of Darkness: The Wizard of Oz and Pan’s Labyrinth (New chapter)

CHARACTER

16. Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction

17. Stretching the Limits of Character Identification

18. Main and Secondary Characters

19. Subtext, Action and Character

20. The Primacy of Character over Action: The Non-American Screenplay.

FORM, TONE AND THEORY

21. The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form

22. Agency and the Other

23. Character, History and Politics

24. Tone: The Inescapability of Irony

25. Dramatic Voice, Narrative Voice

26. Digital Features

27. Writing the Narrative Voice

28. Rewriting

29. Adaptations from Contemporary Literature

CONCLUSION

30. Personal Screenwriting: The Edge

31. Personal Screenwriting" Beyond the Edge.