A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing: Theater, Film, and Television Contributor(s): Neipris, Janet (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138918547 ISBN-13: 9781138918542 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $37.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Screenwriting - Performing Arts | Television - Screenwriting - Performing Arts | Theater - Playwriting |
Dewey: 808.2 |
LCCN: 2015049545 |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.50 lbs) 192 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing addresses all three genres of dramatic writing - for theatre, film and TV - in a comprehensive, one-semester, 14-week masterclass for the dramatic writer. Including new material alongside revised, extended selections from Janet Neipris' original and much loved book To Be A Playwright, this volume takes the writer up to a first draft and rewrite of a dramatic work. The fourteen chapters, organized like a semester, guide the writer week-by-week and step-by-step to the completion of a first draft and a rewrite. There are Weekly Exercises and progressive Assignments. Chapters include Beginnings, Creating Complex Characters, Dialogue, Escalating Conflicts, Endings, Checkpoints, Comedy, and Adaptation. For professional writers, teachers, and students, as well as anyone who want to complete their first piece. An award winning playwright and Professor of Dramatic Writing at NYU, Janet Neipris has written for Screen and Television. She has also taught dramatic writers at UCLA and in China, Australia, Indonesia, South Africa, Italy, and in the UK at Oxford, CSSD, University of Birmingham, and the University of East Anglia. Previous publications include To Be A Playwright (Routledge 2006). Janet Neipris's plays and letters are in the Theatre Collection of Harvard University's Houghton Library. |