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Screenwriting poetics and the screen idea

This is an investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new case studies on the successful ITV soap 'Emmerdale', Hitchcock's first major screenwriter and David Lean's unfinished film, 'Nostromo'

Print Book, English, 2013
Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2013