Screenwriting for the 21st Century Book

	Introduction	vi
1	What's It All About?	1
2	Films - Are We Communicating? And If So With Whom?	4
3	The Writer's Created World	11
4	Elements of the Screenplay	18
5	The Stepline, the Characters, the Scenes	33
6	Three-Act Basic Format	43
7	The Card System and the Treatment	46
8	Elements of Script Format	50
9	Writing Your Screenplay	53
10	Mainstream Films Formatted	60
11	Midstream Films Formatted	64
12	TV Formats	72
13	Taking the Mythic Trip	74
14	Adaptations	79
15	Genres	83
16	On Writing Comedy	97
17	Selling Your Screenplay and the Pre-Production Process	107
18	The Production and After	116
19	Distribution and Marketing	119
20	The Industry in the 21st Century	122
Appendix 1	Glossary and Screen Writers' Terminology	127
Appendix 2	Some Scene Exercises	128
Appendix 3	Festivals and Markets	129
Appendix 4	Writers' Groups and Courses	130
	Notes	131
	Film Index	132
	Names Index	133
	Subject Index	136