دانلود کتاب Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen

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Cover page\nHalftitle page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\nPART ONE Inspiration\n Chapter 1 The Comedy of Your Life\n Positives and negatives\n Persona games\n True stories in stand-up\n From stand-up to sitcom\n Improv and writing\n Chapter 2 People Watching\n Observation of people\n ‘As if’\n Characters based on famous people\n Use their own words\n Character motives and transposed behaviour\n Developing characters for longer narratives\n Chapter 3 Write What You Know and Love (or Hate)\n Research in stand-up comedy\n Show not tell\n Absurd and disproportionate effort\nPART TWO Action\n Chapter 4 Games and Worlds\n Games, sub-games and character games (in Monty Python sketches at the British Library)\n Transpositions\n The work–play balance\n Comedy worlds\n Realist comedy\n Heightened comedy\n Cartoon world\n Surreal world\n Going round the comedy worlds circle\n Chapter 5 SREP: Set-up, Reveal, Escalation, Payoff\n SREP in improv, sketch and sitcom\n Live sketch comedy\n SREP in stand-up\n Ways to escalate a scenario\n Payoffs\n Chapter 6 Character Behaviour and Awareness\n Degrees of awareness and caring\n Writers rooms\n Reasonable and unreasonable behaviour in transaction scenes\n Scenes and characters in stand-up\n Chapter 7 ‘What If?’ in Online Comedy and Beyond\n ‘What if?’ in improv and writing\n Unsaid said\n Change WHY\n Change WHERE\n Change WHEN\n Change WHO\n Change WHAT\n Reverse it\n Rescale it\n Personification\nPART THREE Show\n Chapter 8 Bosses, Strivers and Fools\n Building an ensemble of characters\n Other models of character relationships\n Likeable and dislikeable characters\n Chapter 9 Characters Driving the Narrative\n Finding your protagonists\n Long- form improvisation\n Keep it simple\n Be led by your characters\n Chapter 10 Story Structure\n Stories and narrative arcs\n Developing stories\n Acts, plotlines and dramatic irony\n The heart of the narrative\nSuggested Further Reading\nIndex