How Scripts are Made
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809313804 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has taught various courses on film in this country and in Austria, Holland, Germany, and Switzerland and has written scripts for the BBC in London. Inga Karetnikova is a writer, film historian, and critic who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was educated at Moscow University and at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts. She is
She stresses that her examination is "interested only in how the scripts are written and what makes them work, not in a cultural or scholarly examination of them." Karetnikova analyzes eight screenplaysTheGodfather, Rashomon, La Strada, Bicycle Thief, Nosferatu, The Servant, Viridiana, Notoriousanda novel written in screenplay form, Kiss of the Spider Woman. Each serves as an example of a particular aspect of screenplay writing: composing scripts, developing characters, constructing suspense, adapting literature to cinematic space and time, and weaving details and motifs within a script.Karetnikova urges film students to work on their own screenplays while studying her book, reading the su
We have needed a practical, readable textbook like this for a long time."--Eleanor Breese"This book is unique! It doesn't tell you how. "This book is unique! It doesn' t tell you how. It leads to an understanding." --Richard Leacock "Inga Karetnikova skillfully conducts a journey through some of the best screenplays ever written, explaining the development and positioning of the building blocks that constitute a film story. It leads to an understanding." -- Richard Leacock "This book is unique! It doesn't tell you how. It leads to an understanding." --Richard Leacock
Very Solid Book that Deserves Greater Recognition Daniel Joshua Rubin Intelligent, elegantly written, unpretentious study that dignifies the art. This along with Robert McKee's "Story" and Lajos Egri's "The Art of Dramatic Writing" are a solid collection for aspiring writers. There are many books on the craft that are far more popular but few as practically valuable.. "A Good Teacher And A Good Book Indeed" according to Pablo Vargas. I also was a student of Ms Karetnikova at Emerson College in Boston, and not only did I learned from her how to appreciate and create a commercial script but also how to make it a piece of good work. Ms Karetnikova has the gift of knowledge that will inspire any writer to build good scripts with the basic premise of good idea. This book is a typical example of what Inga can teach you. --This text refers to the Paperback editionPablo Vargas-Atlanta, GA GA Films October 15, 200A Good Teacher And A Good Book Indeed I also was a student of Ms Karetnikova at Emerson College in Boston, and not only did I learned from her how to appreciate and create a commercial script but also how to make it a piece of good work. Ms Karetnikova has the gift of knowledge that will inspire any writer to build good scripts with the basic premise of good idea. This book is a typical example of what Inga can teach you. --This text refers to the Paperback editionPablo Vargas-Atlanta, GA GA Films October 15, 2003. . A teacher who really knows her stuff V. Pennington I learned under Ms. Karetnikova at Emerson College in Boston, and she is a very talented teacher. She knows how to take the raw material of a writer and encourage it to blossom into a script worthy of selling. Inga knows that her students are wanting to write scripts that will sell, and she teaches others in this book how to truly look at a script so they will know how to produce one themselves.