The Death and Life of Drama : : Reflections on Writing and Human Nature / / Lance Lee.
What makes a film "work," so that audiences come away from the viewing experience refreshed and even transformed in the way they understand themselves and the world around them? In The Death and Life of Drama, veteran screenwriter and screenwriting teacher Lance Lee tackles this question i...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Immediate Issues
- One. By the Ocean of Time
- Two. The Heavy as Opposed to...
- Three. Moral Substance and Ambiguity
- Four. Complexity vs. Fullness
- Part II The Cooked and the Raw
- Five. The Cooked and the Raw
- Six. The Smart and the Dumb
- Part III The Lost Poetics of Comedy
- Seven. The Lost Poetics of Comedy
- Part IV The Nature of Dramatic Action
- Eight. The Weight of the Past
- Nine. The Weight of the Wrong Decision
- Ten. The Nature of the Hero’s Journey
- Part V The Death and Life of Drama
- Eleven. The Death and Life of Drama
- Appendix: A Case Study
- Notes
- Film and Drama List