Story, by Robert McKee
Story, by Robert McKee A seminar, then a book In 1984, Robert McKee began teaching storytelling in a seminar called Story at the University of South… Read More »Story, by Robert McKee
Creating Unforgettable Characters, by Linda Seger
Creating Unforgettable Characters The “script doctor” Linda Seger published in 1990 a book entitled Creating Unforgettable Characters, with this subtitle: “A Practical Guide to Character Development in Films, TV… Read More »Creating Unforgettable Characters, by Linda Seger
The Hero With a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell In 1949, the American professor Joseph Campbell published his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces,… Read More »The Hero With a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell
The Writer’s Journey, by Christopher Vogler
Genesis of the Writer’s Journey, by Christopher Vogler Subtitled “Mythic Structure for Writers“, Christopher Vogler’s Writer’s Journey presents itself as a sort of universal recipe… Read More »The Writer’s Journey, by Christopher Vogler
The Morphology of Tale by Vladimir Propp
In 1928, Soviet humanities researcher Vladimir Propp published an essay, The Morphology of Tale, in which he attempted to determine common narrative structures in a… Read More »The Morphology of Tale by Vladimir Propp
The 36 dramatic situations of Georges Polti
36 dramatic situations to generate all the possible stories? In 1895, the Frenchman Georges Polti published a book, Les 36 situations dramatiques (The 36 dramatic… Read More »The 36 dramatic situations of Georges Polti