Screenwriting With a Conscience - Ethics for Screenwriters

In this dynamic and practical volume, author Marilyn Beker provides methods for self-assessment of values, ideas, and ethical stances, and demonstrates the application of these values to the development of plot, character, and dialogue. Screenwriting

List of contents

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Why? Ethics? For Screenwriters? Message and Meaning. The Certainty of Why. Social Responsibility. What's Art Got to Do With It? Part II: The Certainty of What: Anything Goes? A Glimpse of Stocking. Something Shocking. Where Have All the Elders Gone? Conscience. Part III: What Really Matters. What It's Worth. The Good, the Bad, the Blurry. Nothing Left to Chance. Part IV: White Hats, Black Hats. White Hats, Black Hats. Good. Bad. The Villanero. Practical Writing Techniques. Angelic Acts, Dastardly Deeds. Crime and Punishment. Special Circumstances. Part V: Killing the Messenger. No Sermons. Words of Wisdom. Part VI: Having Written and Writing More. What's the Idea? All's Fair in Love, War, and Showbiz? Courage. Conclusion.

About the author

Marilyn Beker

Summary

In this dynamic and practical volume, author Marilyn Beker provides methods for self-assessment of values, ideas, and ethical stances, and demonstrates the application of these values to the development of plot, character, and dialogue. Screenwriting

Product details

• Authors: Marilyn Beker, Beker Marilyn
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2003
• EAN: 9780805841282
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-4128-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Weight: 385 g
• Series: Routledge Communication Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Screenplays, Films, cinema, Writing and editing guides, Creative writing & creative writing guides, Creative writing and creative writing guides, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Writing / General, Film scripts and screenplays, Television screenplays, scripts and performances