- Motion picture authorship, Motion picture plays, Technique, Creative writing
One of the seminal and much respected texts in the field of screenwriting by one of the greats.
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Cool, earnest, spare and plot-driven.
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- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Syd Field
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 246
- Publisher
- Yuan liu chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, Objetiva, Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Portuguese, Chinese
- ISBN
- 9780385288750
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First sentence
“What is a screenplay?”
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