Film Stories: Screenplays as Story

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These film scripts are designed to help film students master concepts like three-act structure, conflict, suprise, rising action, and crisis. They aim to show the budding screenwriter how not only to tell a story, but how to tell a story that sells. This volume contains the screenplays for "Losing Emily", "Famous Long Ago", "Mortal Longings", "Act of God", and "Sad but Funny".

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This second volume in the series includes scripts for Michael Roemer's Famous long ago, Mortal longing, Act of God, and Sad but funny. Writer and director Roemer (Yale U.) provides a brief preface to each screenplay that describes his state of mid and intentions for each script as well as notes on structure. In a postscript, he reflects in the storytelling process. (The first volume in the series includes a comprehensive introduction detailing his own life story as well as the stories behind the nine collected screenplays.) -- 2001 * Reference and Research Book News *

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Michael Roemer is Professor of Film at Yale University, where he has taught courses in filmmaking and screenwriting for more than 30 years. He is also the independent filmmaker of such movies as The Plot Against Harry. Nothing But a Man, Pilgrim Farewell, and the widely-celebrated documentary, Dying.