Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting (Methuen Film)
by:
Robert McKee (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780413715609 (413715604)
ASIN: 413715604
Publish date: November 1st 2005
Publisher: Methuen Publishing
Pages no: 442
Edition language: English
(Original review, 1997-11-30)Aristotle's observations of drama, is very far from the early dramaturgy as 18th century Lessing for instance. In the twenties when dramaturgy started to become a subject on its own in Central Europe (where it started) there was already in the beginning two different app...
Great advice and ways to break down characters, setting and plot, with some systematic approaches to deconstructing stories (although mostly on screen!)