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Into the woods : a five-act journey into story / John Yorke.

by Yorke, John.

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Penguin Books, 2013.

Storytelling -- Philosophy.

Motion picture authorship -- Philosophy.

9781468310948 (pbk.)

xvii, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is a story -- Three-act structure -- Five-act structure -- The importance of change -- How we tell stories -- Fractals -- Acts -- The inciting incident -- Scenes -- Putting it all together -- Showing and telling -- Character and characterization -- Character and structural design -- Character individuation -- Dialogue and characterization -- Exposition -- Subtext -- Television and the triumph of structure -- Series and serial structure -- Change in drama series -- Home again -- Why -- Act structure of Raiders of the Lost Ark -- Hamlet, the structural form -- Being John Malkovich, the structural form -- My Zinc Bed, the structural form -- The Godfather, the structural form -- First and last act parallels : some further examples -- A lightning guide to screenwriting gurus.

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