Story  (English, Paperback, Mckee Robert)

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting is an ideal book for those aspiring to become successful screenplay writers. This book consists of methods, information, and examples that can turn an ordinary story into an extraordinary one.

Summary Of The Book

Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting is a guide for those who wish to learn the art of screenwriting. This book is a collection of the author's award-winning techniques on this form of writing. Readers will learn how to go beyond clichés, thus surpassing mediocrity to reach a level of excellence. This guide teaches people how to develop a storyline, refine an ongoing project, and focus on the important features of movie making.

Hollywood is always on the lookout for original and great stories and is even generous in providing huge budgets for movies that are larger than life. The author shows that in order to be successful in such an industry, one mustn't follow a standard formula. He explains how the different elements in screenwriting come together to form a complete project. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting further covers the brilliance of story construction and elucidates on the relationship between a character and his characterization.

This book is popularly know as the ‘screenwriters' bible’ and has won the International Moving Image Book Award in the year 1999. It is now a part of the syllabus at film and cinema schools in Tulane, UCLA, Harvard, USC, and Yale. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting has been translated into more than twenty languages and was on the bestsellers list of Los Angeles Times for twenty weeks.

About Robert McKee

Robert McKee, born in 1941, is an American playwright, director, writer, and creative writing instructor. He joined theatre at the age of 9 and later went on to do his Master’s in Theatre Arts. Deciding to move into films, McKee, a Fulbright Scholar, attended Cinema School at the University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor.

Some of the books that McKee has co-authored are Adaptation: The Shooting Script and The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles. His website, Storylogue, is an online forum that helps writers develop their skills.

The author shifted to Los Angeles in 1979 and started writing screenplays. Four years later he became a faculty member at University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. This is where he first began his Story Seminar classes, which he later opened to the public worldwide. This seminar has been going on for more than 25 years and is considered to be the best course in screenplay writing. His class has been attended by actors, producers, screenwriters, filmmakers, directors, novelists and more, taking the number to over 50,000. The course has been taught in Singapore, Hyderabad, Stockholm, London, Oslo, Tel Aviv, and Sydney. A total of 36 Academy Award, 164 Emmy Award, 19 Writers Guild of America Award, and 16 Directors Guild of America Award winners have attended McKee’s Story Seminar.