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"An unacknowledged, and 'commonsense' notion of formalism has long underlined the way in which screenwriters think and talk about movie stories. Screenwriting manuals habitually break down the structure of narrative into articulating beats of many sizes, for example, and usually without offering context or a rigorous defense of the value of such an approach. Terry Murphy's achievement is to have applied the formalist rigor of Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folk Tale both to the analysis of movie stories and of the para-industrial texts that seek to explain them, and train new screenwriters in emulating them.'
Julian Hoxter, Associate Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University
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