ARABIC

Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays

By Craig Batty

Book information

Publisher
Oldcastle Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781843441106, 9781843441113, 9781843441120, 9781843441137
Language
arabic
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1793647 bytes)
Pages
\0
Topic
Art
Time added
2023-12-11 16:52:34

Description

What happens when 'happy ever after' isn't quite so simple? Today's attitudes to love and romance are as varied and diverse as individuals, and audiences want and need more sophisticated, authentic films that show how we live and love now. So what does this mean for the screenwriter developing a romcom? And how do they write heart-warming stories for a genre that is constantly evolving, from bromcom to zomcom to famcom? Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays offers a fresh approach to creating narratives for this ever-changing genre. Moving away from rigid and limited definitions that have evolved out of mainstream genre films, the book embraces a working definition that crosses cultural and national boundaries to give screenwriters around the world a truly international perspective on writing comedic love stories. It will be the first screenwriting guide to reflect the diversity of approaches in today's films that deal with the human need for emotional and physical...

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