From Chariots of Fire to The King's Speech : Writing Biopics and Docudramas /
Over the past decade, movie audiences have become hungry for films based on real people and historical events. Never was this more evident than during the best-picture showdown between The King's Speech and The Social Network during the 2011 Academy Awards, a scene then repeated, with Argo, Lin...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Southern Illinois University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Clearing your head. The popular genre
- What is docudrama?
- Choosing a dynamic subject
- Starting to work. Research
- The dramatic elements
- Shaping the film
- From treatment to full script. The outline treatment
- Writing dialogue and narration
- Beginning your script
- Special considerations. Adaptations
- Print the legend?
- Rights and legal issues
- Afterword.