- Cover
- Half Title
- Full Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART I UNIVERSAL ELEMENTS OF SCRIPT
- 1 The Basics
- 2 Character
- Ownership of Story
- The Main Character and the Role of a Goal
- Sources of Resistance to Character and Goal
- The Source of Greatest Resistance: The Antagonist
- Character Construction
- Myths about Character
- Issues of Identification
- Character in the Plot-Driven Film: The Films of Joseph Ruben
- The Character-Driven Film: The Films of Lasse Hallström
- 3 Structure
- 4 Genre
- The Audience
- Issues of the Day
- The Role of Character in Genre
- The Role of Structure in Genre
- The Case of Michael Mann's Heat
- The Case of Michael Mann's The Insider
- The Case of Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans
- The Case of Franklin Schaffner's Planet of the Apes
- The Case of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner
- The Case of John Frankenheimer's Seconds
- Working with Genre
- Working against Genre
- 5 Tone
- PART II PARTICULARS ABOUT SCRIPTWRITING
- 6 The Hollywood Model
- 7 The Independent Model
- The Centrality of Character: The Case of John Cassavetes—Husbands and Opening Night
- Politics and the Independent Film I: The Case of The Ballad of Little Jo
- Politics and the Independent Film II: The Case of Slam
- Politics and the Independent Film III: The Case of Boys Don't Cry
- The Experimental Narrative I: The Case of The Draughtsman's Contract
- The Experimental Narrative II: The Case of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
- Breaking the Rules
- Breaking the Rules I: The Case of She's Gotta Have It
- Breaking the Rules II: The Case of Mean Streets
- Breaking the Rules III: The Case of The Nasty Girl
- 8 The National Model
- 9 New Models
- 10 Experiments in Voice
- PART III THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF STORYTELLING
- 11 The Ascent of Voice
- 12 The Search for New Forms
- 13 The Struggle of Style and Content
- The Subversion of Narrative: The Case of Buñuel and Godard
- The Subversion of Realism: The Case of Stone and Scorsese
- The Dynamic of the Overwrought Treatment of Narrative: The Case of Bertolucci's Beseiged
- The Structural Challenge to Content
- Alternating Structures
- The Tonal Challenge to Content
- Narration Subverts the Narrative
- Irony and Voice
- 14 The Medium Is the Message
- 15 The Centrality of Metagenre
- 16 Big Issues Plus National Stereotypes
- 17 The Search for the Global Tale
- Appendix: Script Treatment
- Index
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