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Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach »

Authors: Paul Gulino
ISBN-13: 9780826415684, ISBN-10: 0826415687
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: April 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Paul Gulino

Book Synopsis

Produced screenwriter and playwright Gulino (screenwriting, Chapman U., California) helps screenwriters maintain viewer interest and keep the story moving through the entire script, by explaining the notion of sequences, that a feature film is composed of a series of shorter films. He demonstrates the various ways sequences can work by analyzing 11 popular films. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

	Acknowledgments
	Author's note
	Foreword
1	An introduction to sequences	1
2	Toy story : firing on all eight	20
3	The shop around the corner : fractured symmetry	41
4	Double indemnity : flashback to the future	64
5	Fellini's Nights of cabiria : nocturnal episodes	80
6	North by northwest : 1,700 miles in nine sequences	97
7	Lawrence of Arabia : sixteen sequences and an intermission	114
8	The graduate : passive main character	145
9	One flew over the cuckoo's nest : midpoint reversal	158
10	Air force one : eight sequences eight miles up	172
11	Being John Malkovich : the disappearing lead actor	182
12	The fellowship of the ring : the shotgun approach	199
	Sources	225
	Index	227