Name: Action: The art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game
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Author: McKee, Robert ; El-Wakil, Bassim
ISBN: 9781538726914

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Action: The art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert McKee

Bassim El-Wakil

Publisher

Twelve

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.3 x 16.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.42 kg.

ISBN13

9781538726914

Synopsis "Action: The art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game "

From the master of Story, Dialogue, and Character, ACTION offers writers the keys to propulsive storytelling. ACTION explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but wins the war on clichés. Teaming up with the former co-host of The Story Toolkit, Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality by deconstructing the action genre, illuminating the challenges, and, more importantly, demonstrating how to master the demands of plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity. Topics include: Understanding the Four Core Elements of ActionCreating the Action CastHook, Hold, Pay Off: Design in ActionThe Action MacguffinAction Set PiecesThe Sixteen Action SubgenresA must-add to the McKee storytelling library, ACTION illustrates the principles of narrative drive with precision and clarity by referencing the most popular action movies of our time including: Die Hard, The Star Wars Saga, Dark Knight, The Matrix, and Avengers: Endgame.

Robert McKee

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Born in Detroit in 1941. Studied English Literature at the University of Michigan and earned a PhD in Performing Arts. Was a resident artist at the British National Theatre and an actor and director in Broadway plays. In 1979, he moved to Los Angeles, where he began writing scripts and working for United Artists and NBC as a script reviewer. In 1983, with a Fulbright scholarship, he started a seminar on scriptwriting at the University of Southern California, the starting point of a teaching career that would take him around the world: from Geoffrey Rush to David Bowie, including William Goldman, Julia Roberts, Kirk Douglas, and Jane Campion, a large number of personalities have attended his seminars. He continues to be a consultant for major film and television producers such as 20th Century Fox, Disney, Paramount, and MTV, and even for companies like Microsoft and organizations like NASA. In 1999 his book The Screenplay. Story (1997), a worldwide success published in this same collection, won the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Award for Best Book on Moving Images in the United Kingdom. He is also the author of The Dialogue (2016) and The Character (2022), both published in this collection. A popular icon, he has been featured in the film The Orchid Thief (2002) and in an episode of The Simpsons.

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