New York, NY, Estados Unidos : Overlook Press, c2015.

xxii, 314 p. : il. ; 23 cm.

Act I. Home. -- 1. What is a story? -- 2. Three-act structure. -- 3. Five-act structure. -- 4. The importance of change. -- 5. How we tell stories. -- Act II. Woodland, day. -- 6. Fractals. -- 7. Acts. -- 8. The inciting incident. -- 9. Scenes. -- 10. Putting it all together. -- Act III. The forest. -- 11. Showing and telling. -- Act IV. The road back, night. -- 12. Character and characterization. -- 13. Character and structural design. -- 14. Character individualization. -- 15. Dialogue and characterization. -- 16. Exposition. -- 17. Subtext. -- Act V. Home again, changed. -- 18. Television and the triumph of structure. -- 19. Series and mini-series structure. -- 20. Change in drama series. -- 21. Home again. -- 22. Why? -- Appendices. -- I. Act structure of Raiders of the Lost Ark. -- II. Hamlet - the structural form. -- III. Being John Malkovich - the structural form. -- IV. My Zinc Bed - the structural form. --V. The Godfather - the structural form. --VI. First and last act parallels: some further examples. -- VII. A lightning guide to screenwriting gurus. --

Tomado de Amazon: "The Revolutionary guide to dramatic writing, whether you’re writing the next Chinatown, Breaking Bad, or Glengarry Glen Ross. The idea of Into the Woods is not to supplant works by Aristotle, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, David Mamet, or any other writers of guides for screenwriters and playwrights, but to pick up on their cues and take the reader on a historical, philosophical, scientific, and psychological journey to the heart of all storytelling. In this exciting and wholly original book, John Yorke not only shows that there is truly a unifying shape to narrative―one that echoes the great fairytale journey into the woods, and one, like any great art, that comes from deep within―he explains why, too. With examples ranging from The Godfather to True Detective, Mad Men to Macbeth, and fairy tales to Forbrydelsen (The Killing), Yorke utilizes Shakespearean five-act structure as a key to analyzing all storytelling in all narrative forms, from film and television to theatre and novel-writing―a big step from the usual three-act approach. Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story is destined to sit alongside David Mamet’s Three Uses of the Knife, Robert McKee’s Story, Syd Field’s Screenplay, and Lajos Egri’s The Art of Dramatic Writing as one of the most original, useful, and inspiring books ever on dramatic writing. 20 b&w illustrations." --

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Incluye bibliografía (Pp. 298-301) e índice.