Research Catalog

Title

Scenario : the craft of screenwriting / Tudor Gates.

Author

Gates, Tudor

Publication

London ; New York : Wallflower, c2002.

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Holdings

Details

Series Statement

Short cuts ; 12

Uniform Title

Short cuts (London, England) 12.

Subject

• Motion picture authorship
• Screenwriters

Bibliography (note)

• Filmography: p. 123-129.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

So you want to be a writer -- What's it all about, Alfie? -- In the beginning was ...? -- The General -- The Gold Rush -- Make your argument -- Sound ... and all that jazz -- All Quiet on the Western Front -- Duck Soup -- The play's the thing -- Play it again, Sam -- The Big Sleep -- Bicycle Thieves -- Macbeth and Reservoir Dogs -- The Bridge on the River Kwai -- Rules of Engagement -- The grammar of writing -- On the box -- A memoir -- Starting to write -- It's a Wonderful Life -- The Maltese Falcon -- Character -- Rashomon -- The Seventh Seal -- Recap -- Character again -- nothing matters more -- The social background -- environment -- Erin Brockovich -- The Third Man -- The necessity of change -- Psycho -- Lawrence of Arabia -- Another memoir -- Orchestrating your characters -- Character -- the psychological factors -- Finding your characters -- More about conflict -- The logic of screenwriting -- Dialogue -- 'The British are coming!' (but when?) -- Raging Bull -- Gregory's Girl -- The turning point -- 'And now the end is near' -- Three Colours: Red -- Pulp Fiction -- Sub-text -- A modern screenplay -- Six questions about your screenplay -- Form, lay-out, presentation -- A final recap -- Marketing your script -- The producer -- The director -- The cast -- The agent -- Unions -- The Film Council -- Training.

ISBN

1903364264

OCLC

• 50446604
• SCSB-11278363

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library