Screenwriting Updated: New (And Conventional) Ways of Writing for the Screen - Softcover

Aronson, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879505592 ISBN 13: 9781879505599

Publisher: Silman-James Press, 2001

Synopsis

Today's screenwriter must be adept at today's popular yet often complex and unconventional script forms, such as the parallel storytelling of Pulp Fiction and Magnolia, the multiple protagonist narrative of American Beauty, and the complex flashback forms of The Usual Suspects and The Sweet Hereafter. Becoming comfortable with and skilled in such modern script forms is the focus of Screenwriting Updated, which identifies basic parallel structures, clearly explains how and why they work (or fail to work), and establishes the basic principles of their construction. These modern forms are presented in tandem with and in relation to tried-and-true, traditional screenwriting forms, rendering unconventional structures as easily grasped as conventional ones. Unlike any other screenwriting book, Screenwriting Updated combines solid, basic screenwriting craft with a thorough presentation of very contemporary script structures. The result is a unique, wide-ranging, in-depth screenwriting text and do-it-yourself script-doctoring manual suitable for both seasoned and novice writers.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda Aronson
Linda Aronson has won awards as scriptwriter, playwright and novelist. Primarily a working writer, she has over twenty years experience, with credits in feature film, TV series and serials, mini-series,  children's TV, radio drama, stage plays fiction, and TV drama-documentary. Her fiction has been published in nine countries.
Linda teaches screenwriting and script analysis for leading film schools and film industry organisations all over the world and works internationally as a script consultant. Her award-winning book Screenwriting Updated (Los Angeles, 2001)  was widely acclaimed as being the first book to provide practical strategies for writing complex non-linear and multiple protagonist scripts and fiction.
The 21st Century Screenplay: a comprehensive guide to writing tomorrow's films (2010)  sold out in the UK before the consignment of books arrived at the warehouse from the docks is, along with Screenwriting Updated, used by professional writers and film schools all over the world.  
The book has been widely celebrated and bears endorsements from Andrew Bovell,  Robin Swicord and Linda Seger, who says of it, "A brilliant book. Linda Aronson is one of the great and important voices on screenwriting.'
Other books by Linda Aronson on writing are TV Writing:The Ground Rules of Series, Serials and Sitcom (AFTRS/Allen and Unwin, 2000)and Writing with Imagination (Macmillan Education). Linda's contribution to ed Tom Jeffrey's collection of essays for producers,  Film Business is 'Script Mechanics: Understanding and Fixing the Script'
Linda is currently writing nonlinear multiple storyline short film pieces for immersive virtual reality applications.

Review:

"A fabulous book that deals with the creative thinking necessary to write." -- Mario Andreacchio, director/writer/producer, Napoleon, Young Blades

"Linda Aronson provides screenwriters with invaluable detailed strategies to lay bare the workings of the craft." -- Jane Scott, producer, Shine, Crocodile Dundee

About this edition

• Publisher: Silman-James Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1879505592
• ISBN 13: 9781879505599
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300