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Writing dialogue for scripts / Rib Davis.

By: Davis, RibMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Writing handbooksPublisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc., 2016Edition: Fourth editionDescription: 230PISBN: 9781474260084 (epub); 9781474260091 (epdf)Subject(s): Playwriting | Dialogue | PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Screenwriting | PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Screenwriting | PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / PlaywritingDDC classification: 808.2 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. How Do We Talk? -- 2. The Characters' Agenda -- 3. Naturalistic Dialogue -- 4. Don't Make it Work Too Hard -- 5. Beyond the Literal -- 6. Heightened Naturalism -- 7. Tone, Pace and Conflict -- 8. Highly Stylised Dialogue -- 9. The Character Tells the Story -- 10. Comic Dialogue -- 11. Documentary Dialogue -- 12. Reworking the Dialogue -- 13. Last Words -- Index.
Summary: "Including new case-study examples from shows and films such as Breaking Bad, Girls and In Bruges, this is a fully updated new edition of the bestselling guide to writing dialogue for stage, television, radio and film"--
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PN218 .D38 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0087747
Books Books Lagos Study Centre
PN218 .D38 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0087748

Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. How Do We Talk? -- 2. The Characters' Agenda -- 3. Naturalistic Dialogue -- 4. Don't Make it Work Too Hard -- 5. Beyond the Literal -- 6. Heightened Naturalism -- 7. Tone, Pace and Conflict -- 8. Highly Stylised Dialogue -- 9. The Character Tells the Story -- 10. Comic Dialogue -- 11. Documentary Dialogue -- 12. Reworking the Dialogue -- 13. Last Words -- Index.

"Including new case-study examples from shows and films such as Breaking Bad, Girls and In Bruges, this is a fully updated new edition of the bestselling guide to writing dialogue for stage, television, radio and film"--

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