Films are not only visual, they are visceral; they allow an audience to feel the unfolding drama and psychologically connect with the characters. Even for the screenwriter, the experience of writing a film can be deeply moving, where a range of character emotions are assimilated…
Screenwriting and the power of the protagonist's journey. Introduction. -- Exploring the duality of a screenplay narrative. -- Mythology and the hero's journey. -- Exploring the hero's journey. -- Re-defining the hero's journey into a new model for screenwriting. -- Conclusion. …
Films are not only visual, they are visceral; they allow an audience to feel the unfolding drama and psychologically connect with the characters. Even for the screenwriter, the experience of writing a film can be deeply moving, where a range of character emotions are assimilated…
Written specifically from a screenwriting perspective, this explores the idea that the protagonist's narrative journey is also experienced by the audience, and comprises two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey.-Back cover.
Through an empirical analysis of how Japanese youth dramas are consumed in East and South-East Asia, this volume explores the ways in which intra-Asian cultural flows highlight cultural resonance and asymmetry in the region under the decentering processes of globalization.
This title examines the full run of 'Sex and the City' and its production background, place in television history, innovations to the genre, and reception.
This title examines the full run of 'Sex and the City' and its production background, place in television history, innovations to the genre, and reception.
This monograph looks at one of Europe's most accomplished film directors, Daniel Calparsoro. It provides a major contribution to the Basque cultural debate as Calparsoro's work intersects with the ongoing discussions about Basque culture. It also contains some views on the analy…
This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red Squirrel), Tierra, Los amantes del Círculo Polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), Luc…
Álex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodóvar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films of the Post-Franco era - Acción mutante, El día de la bestia, Muertos de risa - re…
Álex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodóvar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous. The director of some of the most important films of the Post-Franco era? Acción mutante, El día de la bestia, Muertos de risa? rece…
The Radio Drama Handbook combines both theory and practice to lead, stepwise, to a full understanding of radio drama form. Broken down into two large sections, the first gives the reader an overview of English language radio drama in the US and UK and explains a variety of appro…
Beyond representation poses the question as to whether over the last thirty years there have been signs of 'progress' or 'progressiveness' in the representation of 'marginalised' or subaltern identity categories within television drama in Britain and the US. In doing so it inter…