Semiotics for Screenwriters

Break Down Your Favorite Movies Then Write Your Own

Michael Tierno (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

408 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-9100-2 (ISBN)

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You're trying to finish a screenplay, but there's a voice in your ear whispering, “You should know more about how cinema story works.” Perhaps you've heard how many successful screenwriters deconstruct or “break down” films and study them. You'd like to try this method but ask yourself, “How do I start?” Semiotics for Screenwriters can help you with this daunting task by taking you on a unique journey through 3 classic films - It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost in Translation, and Get Out - that shows you the hidden universal language of plot, character, and theme at work in them. This method will reveal the mechanics of cinema story, then show you how to apply this knowledge to your own screenwriting.

Semiotics is a powerful system of analysis applied in many fields, including literature and psychology. In this book you'll learn to deploy this method to break down classic films then apply it to writing, developing and correcting your own screenplays.

Michael Tierno is Professor Emeritus of Film and Video Production at East Carolina University, USA. He is the author of Location and Postproduction Sound for Low Budget Filmmakers (2020) and Aristotle’s Poetics for Screenwriters (2002). He is a narratologist, a former Miramax story analyst, and an award-winning writer and director of independent films, such as Through a Class Darkly (2016), Nocturne, the Girl Who Played Debussy (2010), and Auditions (1999).

Dedication
Acknowledgements

Introduction – The Hollywood Movie Breakdown System with a Semiotics Spin
1. The Semiotics for Screenwriters System
2. Isotopies, Part I
3. Isotopies, Part II - The Semiotic Square
4. The Narrative Level
5. The Deep Level of Meaning
6. The Breakdown of Three Specimen Movies
7. Demonstration of Using the Tools to Develop a Feature Screenplay - Through the Night
8. Using Final Draft Beat Board and Outline Editor with the Semiotics Tools
Closing Thoughts

Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2024
Zusatzinfo	50 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-9100-3 / 1501391003
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-9100-2 / 9781501391002
Zustand	Neuware