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Preface

Acknowledgments for the fifth edition

Introduction. Beyond the rules

Structure. Structure

Critique of restorative three-act form

Counter structure

More thoughts on three-acts: fifteen years later

Narrative and anti-narrative: the case of the two Stevens

Multiple threaded long-form television serial scripts

Genre. Why genre?

Working with genre I

Working with genre II: the melodrama and the thriller

Working against genre

The flexibility of genre

Genres of voices

The non-linear film

The fable: a case study of darkness: the wizard of Oz and Pan's labyrinth

Character. Reframing the active/passive character distinction

Stretching the limits of character identification

Main and secondary characters

Subtext, action, and character

The primacy of character over action: the non-American screenplay

Form, tone, and theory. The subtleties and implications of screenplay form

Agency and the other

Character, history, and politics

Tone: the inescapability of irony

Dramatic voice/narrative voice

Rewriting

Adaptations from contemporary literature

Conclusion. Personal scriptwriting: the edge

Personal scriptwriting: beyond the edge

Index