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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Screenwriting and the Power of the Protagonist’s Journey
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Screenplay Case Studies
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'Dr Batty is the perfect guide to the world of screenwriting. He knows the narrative journey of a character is also a psychological one - how the outer journey is an inner voyage into the depths of human experience. His great gift is to render this visible. In doing so he provides a guidebook to the inner world of emotions. He shows how screenwriters can take audiences into the core of their being and over the course of 90 minutes return them, transformed and enriched, back to their everyday lives.'
- Luke Hockley, University of Bedfordshire, UK
'In this illuminating synthesis Dr. Batty improves on the Hero's Journey model by tracing the interaction of physical and emotional dimensions in each stage of the adventure, an exercise I wish I'd thought of doing. He brings needed clarity and order to the idea that a good story works on at least two interacting levels and demonstrates his thesis with entertaining examples from popular films. He's made a better map of the countryside of screen storytelling and it will be a useful guide for screenwriters and students of narrative theory alike.'
- Christopher Vogler
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Movies That Move Us
Book Subtitle: Screenwriting and the Power of the Protagonist's Journey
Authors: Craig Batty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230348158
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-27834-9Published: 03 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-32617-4Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-34815-8Published: 03 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 209
Topics: Film History, Regional and Cultural Studies, American Cinema and TV, Screenwriting, Screen Studies, Genre