Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

By Ian W. Macdonald

Book Overview

A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new case studies on the successful ITV soap Emmerdale, Hitchcock's first major screenwriter and David Lean's unfinished film, Nostromo.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230392288
• ISBN13: 9780230392281
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 271 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"