Theater, Film, and Television
E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-317-42112-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The fourteen chapters, organized like a semester, guide the writer week-by-week and step-by-step to the completion of a first draft and a rewrite. There are Weekly Exercises and progressive Assignments. Chapters include Beginnings, Creating Complex Characters, Dialogue, Escalating Conflicts, Endings, Checkpoints, Comedy, and Adaptation. For professional writers, teachers, and students, as well as anyone who want to complete their first piece. What’s important is that you will finish. Janet will be guiding you to The End.
An award winning playwright and Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU, Janet Neipris has written for Screen and Television. She has also taught dramatic writers at UCLA and in China, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, Italy, and in the UK at Oxford, CSSD, University of Birmingham, and the University of East Anglia. Previous publications include To Be A Playwright (Routledge 2006). Janet Neipris’s plays and letters are in the Theatre Collection of Harvard University’s Houghton Library.
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Preface: The Moral Responsibility of the Artist
Introduction: The Writer’s Life
- Week 1: Beginnings
- Week 2: Creating Complex Characters
- Week 3: Dialogue
- Week 4: Escalating Conflicts
- Week 5: Sixty Questions When Writing a Dramatic Piece
- Week 6: Putting it all Together
- Week 7: Endings
- Week 8: Checkpoints
- Week 9: Rewriting
- Week 10: Adaptation
- Week 11: Comedy
- Week 12: The Fifteen Habits of Successful Dramatic Writers
- Week 13: Lessons from Master Teachers and Students
- Week 14: To Be a Writer
