Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

by Ian W. Macdonald

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Approaches 3. The orthodox poetics of screenwriting 4. The real world and screenwriting as work 5. The Screen Idea Work Emmerdale 6. The individual, their creativity and the poetics 7. Hitchcock's forgotten Eliot Stannard 8. God is in the the text object 9. The poetics of the screen Nostromo 10. Screenwriting studies References Appendices Notes Index

284 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013