Providing examples from well-known movies, Field explains the structural and stylistic elements as well as writing techniques basic to the creation of a successful film script.
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Providing examples from well-known movies, Field explains the structural and stylistic elements as well as writing techniques basic to the creation of a successful film script.
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Very good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!
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Very Good in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" Tall. Scarce third edition hardcover. First printing. Completely revised and updated. Expanded edition. Dk. grey boards, red spine wrap, black spine titles, lt. shelf wear, little adhesive at frt., bk. boards. Page fine; no writing. Bind fine, straight. Dj fine; protected in new clear sleeve. The original "bible" for screewriting, updated and improved. From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script. Easily understood guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to every good screenplay. He presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing the script that will succeed. Questions answered: Why are the first ten pages of your script crucially important? How do you collaborate successfully with someone else? How do you adapt a novel, a play, or an article into a screenplay? How do you market your script? 262 pages. Insured post.
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Like New. Like New condition. Like New dust jacket. 3rd edition, completely revised and updated. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.
Syd Field who is heralded as a 'Messiah' of screenplay writing and has manifold votaries testifying to the popularity of his cult has written with ?Screenplay? what can only be described a book full of heresies.
Not only is his book written in a style that is replete with tautologous phrases annoyingly dispersed every couple of pages, it lacks intellectual substance and rigour and is written with only simpletons in mind. His examples are few and are purpose picked to support the tenuous thesis of his own 'paradigm' and anyone with any knowledge of films and a broad literacy of cinema can see that the same old Aristotelian dogmatism is adhered to in spite of theories and practice to the contrary. Syd Field is a proponent of what I would term Hollywood 'Catholicism' where dogma is blindly adhered to and preached from the pulpit despite evidence to the contrary.
Syd Fields ?Screenplay? is nothing more than a Hollywoodized catechism that demands refutation and yet, even after thirty years, is still blindly and detrimentally pursued.
