What are you laughing at? how to write funny (screenplays, stories, and more)
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Studio City (California) :
Michael Wiese Productions
2004
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007436069708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The nature of humor
- Healing aspects of humor
- If it's painful, why am i laughing?
- Confusion creates humor
- Comedy's enemies (humor's tumors): cliche and meekness
- Some principles of comedic structure
- Comedic character vs. comedic universe
- The process of screenwriting
- High concept, low concept, no concept
- Things bad screenwriters commonly do
- Life experience vs. imagination
- To lie or not to lie
- Stand-up nonfiction
- Creating a fictional world
- Jokes
- Aphorisms
- Insults
- Short story
- Novel
- Anecdote
- Article
- Essay
- Speech
- Column/journalism
- Criticism
- Memoir/autobiography
- Generating ideas
- The author's voice
- What's wrong with this picture?
- How to write about what you don't know
- Aristotle in a bottle
- Chris Vogler: the bozo's journey
- Variety of action
- Exploring possibilities
- Observing characters
- Character point of view
- A character psi chart
- Protagonist vs. antagonist
- Hit and -mis
- Modes of comedic dialogue
- The importance of subtext
- Exposition
- Yiddish sound theory
- Inexplicable humor
- Alliteration as ally
- Character, location, and other names
- Fonetic spellings/phoreign words
- Satire
- Parody
- Black comedy
- Vulgarity and bad taste
- Poetry
- Songs
- The list
- The monologue
- Letters
- Other forms
- Thoughts on TV writing
- Thoughts on playwriting
- Thoughts on audio/radio writing
- The query letter
- Sales
- Promotion
- Syndication
- On reflection: being a writer.
