Alternative Scriptwriting: Beyond the Hollywood Formula Book

INTRODUCTION

1. Beyond the Rules

2. STRUCTURE

3. Structure
4. Critique or Restorative. Three-Act Form
5. Counter Structure
6. More Thoughts on Three Acts: 15 Years Later
7. Narrative and Anti-Narrative: The case of the two Stevens: The Work of Steven Spielberg and Steven Soderbergh
8. Multiple Thread Long Form Televisoin Serial Scripts

9. GENRE

10. Why Genre? (New chapter)
11. Working with Genre I
12. Working with Genre II: The Melodrama and the Thriller

11.Working Against Genre

12. The Flexibility of Genre )New chapter)

13. Genres of Voice

14. The Non-Linear Film

15. The Fable: A case study of Darkness: The Wizard of Oz and Pan’s Labyrinth (New chapter)

CHARACTER

16. Reframing the Active/Passive Character Distinction

17. Stretching the Limits of Character Identification

18. Main and Secondary Characters

19. Subtext, Action and Character

20. The Primacy of Character over Action: The Non-American Screenplay.

FORM, TONE AND THEORY

21. The Subtleties and Implications of Screenplay Form

22. Agency and the Other

23. Character, History and Politics

24. Tone: The Inescapability of Irony

25. Dramatic Voice, Narrative Voice

26. Digital Features

27. Writing the Narrative Voice

28. Rewriting

29. Adaptations from Contemporary Literature

CONCLUSION

30. Personal Screenwriting: The Edge

31. Personal Screenwriting" Beyond the Edge.