Description
Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work. Exploring a variety of mediums including feature films, television, animation, and video games, the volume provides a contextual overview of the form and applies this to the practice of screenwriting.
Featuring over 20 contributions, the volume surveys the art of screen narrative, and allows students and screenwriters to draw on crucial insights to further improve their screenwriting craft. Editors Paul Taberham and Catalina Iricinschi have curated a volume that spans a range of disciplines including screenwriting, film theory, philosophy and psychology with experience and expertise in storytelling, modern blockbusters, puzzle films and art cinema. Screenwriters interviewed include: Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons, Gravity Falls), David Greenberg (Stomping Ground, Used to Love Her), Evan Skolnick and Ioana Uricaru.
Ideal for students of Screenwriting and Screen Narrative as well as aspiring screenwriters wanting to provide theoretical context to their craft.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Catalina Iricinschi and Paul Taberham1. Dimensions of Narrative
Paul TaberhamPART I: Convention, Deviation, Evolution2. Enjoying Classical Hollywood Storytelling
Todd Berliner3. Independent Cinema
Geoff King4. Interview: David Greenberg
5. Complex Film Narratives: Diegetic Fictionalization in Christopher Nolan’s Fantastical Puzzle Film Cycle
Miklós KissPART II: Art Cinema6. Realism, Time and Ambiguity: Narration in Art Cinema
Paul Taberham7. Interview: Ioana Uricaru
8. Pseudo-Narration in Jean-Luc Godard’s Late Films
András Kovács
9. Defining a Lynchian Narrative
Neil McCartneyPART III: Alternative Media10. Television Narrative: Forms, Strategies, and Histories
Sean O’Sullivan and Robyn Warhol11. The Way Toons Tell It: Animation’s Narrative Strategies
Christopher Holliday12. Interview: Josh Weinstein
13. Video Game Narrative: Concepts and Practices for Structuring and Infusing Story in Games
Dominic Arsenault14. Interview: Evan Skolnick
15. Transmedia Storyworlds and Transmedia Universes
Jan-Noël ThonPART IV: New Perspectives16. Two Philosophies of the Screenplay
Enrico Terrone17. The Absorbed Viewer’s Activity
Ed Tan and Katalin Bálint18. The Cognition of Event Segmentation in Film Narrative: Segmenting, Parsing, and the Ensuing Narrative Comprehension
Catalina Iricinschi
