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Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting

by: Robert Mckee

: Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 808.23
EAN: 9780060391683
ISBN: 0060391685
Label: HarperEntertainment
Manufacturer: HarperEntertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: December 17, 1997
Publisher: HarperEntertainment
Release Date: November 25, 1997
Sales Rank: 2438
Studio: HarperEntertainment



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Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni.Writers, producers, development executives and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience.

In Story, McKee expands on the concepts he teaches in his $450 seminars (considered a must by industry insiders), providing readers with the most comprehensive, integrated explanation of the craft of writing for the screen. No one better understands how all the elements of a screenplay fit together, and no one is better qualified to explain the 'magic' of story construction and the relationship between structure and character than Robert McKee.

Amazon.com Review:
Writing for the screen is quirky business. A writer must labor meticulously over his or her prose, yet very little of that prose is ever heard by filmgoers. The few words that do reach the audience, in the form of the characters' dialogue, are, according to Robert McKee, best left to last in the writing process. ('As Alfred Hitchcock once remarked, 'When the screenplay has been written and the dialogue has been added, we're ready to shoot.' ') In Story, McKee puts into book form what he has been teaching screenwriters for years in his seminar on story structure, which is considered by many to be a prerequisite to the film biz. (The long list of film and television projects that McKee's students have written, directed, or produced includes Air Force One, The Deer Hunter, E.R., A Fish Called Wanda, Forrest Gump, NYPD Blue, and Sleepless in Seattle.) Legions of writers flock to Hollywood in search of easy money, calculating the best way to get rich quick. This book is not for them. McKee is passionate about the art of screenwriting. 'No one needs yet another recipe book on how to reheat Hollywood leftovers,' he writes. 'We need a rediscovery of the underlying tenets of our art, the guiding principles that liberate talent.' Story is a true path to just such a rediscovery. In it, McKee offers so much sound advice, drawing from sources as wide ranging as Aristotle and Casablanca, Stanislavski and Chinatown, that it is impossible not to come away feeling immeasurably better equipped to write a screenplay and infinitely more inspired to write a brilliant one.--Jane Steinberg



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great book
I've been to his seminar and this book covers everything he talks about at the seminar in good detail. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - I think it is great
Can't compare it to other books as I have not read many. I liked 'Save The Cat! a lot - but that is more ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - story
very good book with very interesting tips even for writers. i learned a lot. thnak you.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Essential reading for any writer
I've read a lot of fiction help books, but most of them are geared at the mechanics and tricks of fiction. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Invaluable Resource
This is the only book on screenwriting I have read thus far, and, frankly, it would take a lot for me to read ... Read More

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