The Tyranny of Story

The Tyranny of Story
Author: Frederick Garnet Beairsto
Publisher:
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1998
Genre: Motion picture authorship
ISBN: 9780968421307

A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan

A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan
Author: Claire Parkinson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2023-01-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 179365252X

A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status. This volume contributes to the scholarly debates on Nolan and includes original essays that examine all his films including his short films. It is structured into three sections that deal broadly with themes of narrative and time; collaborations and relationships; and ideology, politics, and genre. The authors of the sixteen chapters include established Nolan scholars as well as academics with expertise in approaches and perspectives germane to the study of Nolan's body of work. To these ends, the chapters employ intersectional, feminist, political, ideological, narrative, economic, aesthetic, genre, and auteur analysis in addition to perspectives from star theory, short film theory, performance studies, fan studies, adaptation studies, musicology, and media industry studies.

The Secret Language of Film

The Secret Language of Film
Author: Jean-Claude Carrière
Publisher: Pantheon
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1994
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

Carriere, whose screenwriting credits include The Tin Drum, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and Cyrano de Bergerac, explores the vocabulary of the visual language of film. Filled with anecdote and insight, this book provides readers with an illuminating new way to see and enjoy the movies.

Compact Cinematics

Compact Cinematics
Author: Pepita Hesselberth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2017-01-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501322265

Frames the contemporary post-cinematic situation of audiovisual media by focusing on the category of compactness in order to analyze a number of less explored aspects of contemporary mediascape.

Dramatic Story Structure

Dramatic Story Structure
Author: Edward J. Fink
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-01-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1135081220

A successful screenplay starts with an understanding of the fundamentals of dramatic story structure. In this practical introduction, Edward J. Fink condenses centuries of writing about dramatic theory into ten concise and readable chapters, providing the tools for building an engaging narrative and turning it into an agent-ready script. Fink devotes chapters to expanding on the six basic elements of drama from Aristotle’s Poetics (plot, character, theme, dialogue, sound, and spectacle), the theory and structure of comedy, as well as the concepts of unity, metaphor, style, universality, and catharsis. Key terms and discussion questions encourage readers to think through the components of compelling stories and put them into practice, and script formatting guidelines ensure your finished product looks polished and professional. Dramatic Story Structure is an essential resource not only for aspiring screenwriters, but also for experienced practitioners in need of a refresher on the building blocks of storytelling.