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Writing dialogue for scripts / Rib Davis.

Title
Writing dialogue for scripts / Rib Davis.
Author
Davis, Rib
Publication
London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc., [2016]

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Description
ix, 230 pages; 22 cm
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"--
Series Statement
Writing handbooks
Subject
  • Playwriting
  • Dialogue
  • PERFORMING ARTS > Screenwriting
  • PERFORMING ARTS > Playwriting
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
How Do We Talk? -- The Characters' Agendas -- Naturalistic Dialogue -- Don't Make it Work Too Hard! -- Beyond the Literal -- Heightened Naturalism -- Tone, Pace and Conflict -- Highly Stylized Dialogue -- The Character Tells the Story -- Comic Dialogue -- Documentary Dialogue -- Reworking the Dialogue -- Last Words.
ISBN
  • 9781474260077
  • 1474260071
LCCN
^^2016005428
OCLC
938855724
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library