The Comic Hero's Journey: Serious Story Structure for Fabulously Funny Films

by Steve Kaplan, Anna Popova (Translator)

Overview

Sozdanie komedii — sereznoe delo. Eto puteshestvie, polnoe opasnostey i strahov — no esli sledovat kontseptsiyam i strukturam, opisannym v etoy knige, ono proydet gorazdo legche. Stiv Kaplan obyasnyaet, pochemu komedii obychno ne vpisyvayutsya v traditsionnye dramaticheskie struktury povestvovaniya, i opredelyaet novye ritmy, kotorym mozhet sledovat komediynyy avtor. Po-nastoyaschemu poleznye, prakticheskie primery illyustriruyut novyy vzglyad na strukturu komedii. Vy ne tolko uznaete mnogo novogo, no i ot dushi posmeetes! Esli vam ne hvataet vdohnoveniya i podderzhki v napisanii ocherednogo komediynogo stsenariya, vam napomnyat zamechatelnye komediynye stseny, kotorye vas vdohnovyat, i rasskazhut o vazhnyh arhetipah personazhey i struktur, kotorye pomogut v rabote.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9785002231492
Publisher:	Alpina Non Fiction
Publication date:	11/27/2023
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	4 MB
Age Range:	6 - 12 Years
Language:	Russian

About the Author

For years, Steve Kaplan has been the industry's most respected and sought-after expert on comedy. The artists he's taught, directed or produced have gone on to be nominated or won 43 Emmy Awards, 1 Academy Award, 3 Golden Globe Awards, 1 American Comedy Award, 6 Writers' Guild of America Awards and several others. In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale and other top universities, Steve Kaplan created the HBO Workspace, the HBO New Writers Program and was co-founder and Artistic Director of Manhattan Punch Line Theatre. He has served as a consultant to such companies as DreamWorks, Disney, Aardman Animation, HBO and others.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents FOREWORD HOW TO READ THIS BOOK PART I: THE JOURNEY CHAPTER 1: The Schlemiel With A Thousand Faces CHAPTER 2: Guy Walks Into A Bar: The Normal World CHAPTER 3: WTF! Or ‘We’re Not In Kansas Anymore’: The Comic Catalyst CHAPTER 4: STOP The World! I Want To Get Off!: Into New Territory CHAPTER 5: Hooking Up: Connections and Allies CHAPTER 6: “. . . There Was A Hat!?!”: The Discovered Goal CHAPTER 7: Lost at Sea: Disconnections CHAPTER 8: ‘Who Ya Gonna Call?’: Racing to the Finish CHAPTER 9: ‘You Had Me At Hello’: Restorations and Celebrations CHAPTER 10: Mapping Three Journeys: 1. Groundhog Day 2. Tootsie 3. Spy 4. Toy Story 3 CHAPTER 11: The Power of Myths Miss(es) CHAPTER 12: Why A Duck?: Journey Q & A