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Author Rosenthal, Alan.

Title From Chariots of fire to The king's speech : writing biopics and docudramas / Alan Rosenthal.

Publication Info. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Clearing your head. The popular genre -- What is docudrama? -- Choosing a dynamic subject -- Starting to work. Research -- The dramatic elements -- Shaping the film -- From treatment to full script. The outline treatment -- Writing dialogue and narration -- Beginning your script -- Special considerations. Adaptations -- Print the legend? -- Rights and legal issues -- Afterword.
Summary Over the past decade, movie audiences have become hungry for films based on real people and historical events. Never was this more evident than during the best-picture showdown between The King's Speech and The Social Network during the 2011 Academy Awards, a scene then repeated, with Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty in the 2013 awards. While Hollywood moguls have come to recognize the box-office revenue and critical acclaim that accompany such films and are now fast-tracking many docudramas into theaters, there remains a need for more reality-based film scripts. In From "Chariots of Fire" t.
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Subject Motion picture authorship.
Motion picture authorship.
Biographical drama -- Authorship.
Biographical drama.
Authorship.
Historical drama -- Authorship.
Historical drama.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rosenthal, Alan. From Chariots of fire to The king's speech 9780809332984 (DLC) 2013022182 (OCoLC)840465517
ISBN 9780809332991 (electronic book)
080933299X (electronic book)
080933299X (ebook)
1306370221
9781306370226
9780809332984
0809332981