Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

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Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea is written by I. MacDonald and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0230392296 (ISBN 10) and 9780230392298 (ISBN 13).

A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new case studies on the successful ITV soap Emmerdale, Hitchcock's first major screenwriter and David Lean's unfinished film, Nostromo.