Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new case studies on the successful ITV soap Emmerdale, Hitc

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10.1057/9780230392298 - Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea, Ian W. Macdonald

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Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to The Chinese University of Hong Kong - PalgraveConnect - 2016-01-29

Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

10.1057/9780230392298 - Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea, Ian W. Macdonald

Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting

Advisory Board: John Adams, University of Bristol, UK; Jill Nelmes, University of East London, UK; Steven Price, Bangor University, UK; Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Jeff Rush, Temple University, USA; Kristin Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Paul Wells, Loughborough University, UK. Palgrave Studies in Screenwriting is the first book series to focus on the academic study of screenwriting. It seeks to promote an informed and critical account of screenwriting and of the screenplay, looking at the connections between what is produced and how it is produced, with a view to understanding more about the diversity of screenwriting practice and its texts. The scope of the series encompasses a range of study from the creation and recording of the screen idea, to the processes of production, to the structures that form and inform those processes, to the agents, their beliefs and the discourses that create those texts. Titles include: Ian W. Macdonald SCREENWRITING POETICS AND THE SCREEN IDEA Eva Novrup Redvall WRITING AND PRODUCING TELEVISION DRAMA IN DENMARK From The Kingdom to The Killing Kathryn Millard OFF THE PAGE: SCREENWRITING IN A DIGITAL ERA

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10.1057/9780230392298 - Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea, Ian W. Macdonald

Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to The Chinese University of Hong Kong - PalgraveConnect - 2016-01-29

Series Editors: Ian W. Macdonald, University of Leeds, UK; Steven Maras, University of Sydney, Australia; Kathryn Millard, Macquarie University, Australia; J. J. Murphy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Ian W. Macdonald Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, UK

10.1057/9780230392298 - Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea, Ian W. Macdonald

Copyright material from www.palgraveconnect.com - licensed to The Chinese University of Hong Kong - PalgraveConnect - 2016-01-29

Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

© Ian W. Macdonald 2013

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