Robert McKee

Action: The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game -- Robert McKee, Hardcover

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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 Action
  • Creating the Action Cast
  • Hook, Hold, Pay Off: Design in Action
  • The Action Macguffin
  • Action Set Pieces
  • The Sixteen Action Subgenres

A 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.



Author: Robert McKee, Bassim El-Wakil
Publisher: Twelve
Published: 09/06/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.30w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781538726914

Product Tags:

Film, Hardcover, Motion picture authorship, Performing Arts, Playwriting, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, Robert McKee, Screenwriting, Storytelling, Theater, Twelve

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