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Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story

Paperback • 2015 • English

Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story

By John Yorke

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About the book

With examples ranging from The Godfather to True Detective, Mad Men to Macbeth, and fairy tales to Forbrydelsen (The Killing), Yorke utilizes Shakespearean five-act structure as a key to analyzing all storytelling in all narrative forms, from film and television to theatre and novel-writing--a big step from the usual three-act approach Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story is destined to sit alongside David Mamet's Three Uses of the Knife, Robert McKee's Story, Syd Field's Screenplay, an...Show more

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ISBN

9781468310948

Publisher

Overlook Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story

Format

Paperback

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