Genre :
Tidmarsh, Andrew.
Genre : a guide to writing for stage and screen / by Andrew Tidmarsh. - 1st ed - pages cm
Introduction -- The building blocks of narrative -- Will verses fate: Greek tragedy and the fundamentals -- Let's see blood: Roman tragedy and Quentin Tarantino -- Revenge is sweet: Elizabethan tragedy -- Mashing it up: Desperate housewives, Jacobean tragedy and Buffy -- The plate of sardines: new Greek comedy, Menander and Frazier -- Archetype or stereotype: the comedy of Plautus, and the sketch show -- Happily ever after: Shakespeare and Sleepless in seattle -- Minding our manners: The country wife and Mean girls -- Nothing ever happens: Chekhov and the contemporary independent comedy -- Arrivals and departures: chivalric romance and the pastoral -- A final thought.
9781408185827 (pbk.)
2013036186
Drama--Technique.
Playwriting.
Motion picture plays--Technique.
Motion picture authorship.
PN1661 / .T53 2014
808.23
Genre : a guide to writing for stage and screen / by Andrew Tidmarsh. - 1st ed - pages cm
Introduction -- The building blocks of narrative -- Will verses fate: Greek tragedy and the fundamentals -- Let's see blood: Roman tragedy and Quentin Tarantino -- Revenge is sweet: Elizabethan tragedy -- Mashing it up: Desperate housewives, Jacobean tragedy and Buffy -- The plate of sardines: new Greek comedy, Menander and Frazier -- Archetype or stereotype: the comedy of Plautus, and the sketch show -- Happily ever after: Shakespeare and Sleepless in seattle -- Minding our manners: The country wife and Mean girls -- Nothing ever happens: Chekhov and the contemporary independent comedy -- Arrivals and departures: chivalric romance and the pastoral -- A final thought.
9781408185827 (pbk.)
2013036186
Drama--Technique.
Playwriting.
Motion picture plays--Technique.
Motion picture authorship.
PN1661 / .T53 2014
808.23