Modern Film Dramaturgy: An Introduction

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Foreword
Contents
Preface
A Short Backstory of the Dramaturg and Modern Dramaturgy
	The Beginning
	Establishing Period
	Modern Film Dramaturgy Emerging
	Teaching Modern Dramaturgy for Film
Dramaturgy as Discipline and Practice
	A Solid Foundation from the Outset
	Explicit Dramaturgy
		The Construction Principle
		Recognition and Reverse
		The End
	Implicit Dramaturgy
	Explicit and Implicit in Interaction – The Fifth Element
	Brief Summary Film Dramaturgy
	‘The Big Five’ – Basic Dramaturgic Rules
		Non-Replaceable and Immovable
		In the Moment
		Probability
		To Surprise within the Familiar
		Show, Don’t Tell
Essential Dramaturgical Features of Modern Films
	‘Non-Aristotelian’ Narration
	Modern and Poetic — Open Dramaturgy
	Epic Theatre – Poetic cinema
	Explicit Dramaturgy and Scenic Structure for 
Modern Film
		Scenic Narration
		Ideal Starting Point
		Prelude and Prologue, Inversion and Framing
		The Incident to Start the Action
		The Anchor: the ‘Essential Meaning’ and the ‘Point of Convergence’
	Individual and Public Story Lines
		ivan’s childhood
	Heroic Anti-Heroes
		The Central Self
		The Centre Figure [Mittelpunktfigur]
	The Open Ending
	Implicit Dramaturgy and Aesthetic
	Poetic Narration and the Spectator
	A Cinema of Meaning
	Metaphoric Narration and Cinematic Conflict
	Activation of Space
	Impact of Time
	Leitmotif and Acoustic Counterpoint
	V-Effekt – The Alienation-Effect
	‘The Unreliable Narration’ and Irony
Analytic, Episodic, Epic, Ensemble, and Multi-Perspective Movies
	The Well-Made-Movie and its Analytical Structure
		Intrigue and Counter-Intrigue — The Day of the Jackal
	Epic Movies as Extended Drama
	The Technique of Presenting the Epic Self as the Modern Protagonist
	Episodic Narration
		Still Life - The Good People of the Three Gorges
	Narrating a Life – The Biographic Film
	Dramaturgical Aspects of Multi-Perspective Narratives
	Babel
	Ensemble Films
	The Road Movie
TV Series
	Horizontal Dramaturgy
	Vertical Dramaturgy
	Auteur-Series and Visual Dramaturgy
		European Well-Made Series
	The Contemporary US Success Model(s)
	Game of Thrones
Postscript
Table of Figures
Bibliography
Index