Writing and selling crime film screenplays, Karen Lee Street
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Writing and selling crime film screenplays, Karen Lee Street
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eng
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non fiction
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Writing and selling crime film screenplays
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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876507929
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Karen Lee Street
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Aimed at screenwriters, producers, development executives and educators interested in the crime genre, this book provides an invaluable basis for crafting a film story that considers both audience and market expectations without compromising originality. A brief historical overview of the crime genre is presented for context along with an analysis of various crime sub-genres and their key conventions, including: police, detective, film noir, gangster, heist, prison and serial killer. Karen Lee Street focuses on the creative use of these conventions and offers strategies for focusing theme
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