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Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own

Semiotics for Screenwriters: Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own - Hardcover

by Michael Tierno
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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael TiernoPublish date:2024-02-22Pages:408
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501391002ISBN-10:1501391003UPC:9781501391002Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Film, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:ScreenwritingSize:10.00 x 7.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:2.0327Product ID:SC28TM19ZV

You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, "You should know more about how cinema story works." Perhaps you've heard how many successful screenwriters deconstruct or "break down" films and study them. You'd like to try this method but ask yourself, "How do I start?" Semiotics for Screenwriters can help you with this daunting task by taking you on a unique journey through 3 classic films - It's a Wonderful Life, Lost in Translation, and Get Out - that shows you the hidden universal language of plot, character, and theme at work in them. This method will reveal the mechanics of cinema story, then show you how to apply this knowledge to your own screenwriting.

Semiotics is a powerful system of analysis applied in many fields, including literature and psychology. In this book you'll learn to deploy this method to break down classic films then apply it to writing, developing and correcting your own screenplays.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781501391002ISBN-10:1501391003UPC:9781501391002Book Category:Performing Arts, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Film, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:ScreenwritingSize:10.00 x 7.00 x 0.94 inchesWeight:2.0327Product ID:SC28TM19ZV
Michael Tierno is Professor Emeritus of Film and Video Production at East Carolina University, USA. He is the author of Location and Postproduction Sound for Low Budget Filmmakers (2020) and Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters (2002). He is a narratologist, a former Miramax story analyst, and an award-winning writer and director of independent films, such as Through a Class Darkly (2016), Nocturne, the Girl Who Played Debussy (2010), and Auditions (1999).
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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