Screenplay Analysis

Course Reading: FL2211 Screenplay analysis, 15 hcp, Autumn 2025

Aristotle, Poetics English translation available online. [sv. övers. Om diktkonsten, 1994 eller senare]

Batty, Craig och Zara Waldebeck. 2019. Writing for the Screen: Creative and Critical Approaches, 2:a uppl. London: Red Globe Press. 282 pages.

Davies, Rosamund, Paolo Russo and Claus Tieber, eds. 2023. The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 818 pages.

Novrup Redvall, Eva. 2013. Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark: From The Kimgdom to The Killing. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 252 pages.

Pizzo,Antonio, Vincenzo Lombardo and Rossana Damiano. 2023. Interactive Storytelling: A Cross-Media Approach to Writing, Producing and Editing with AI. New York: Routledge. 194 pages.

Taylor, Stayci and Craig Batty, eds. 2022. The Palgrave Handbook of Script Development. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 618 pages.

Screenwriting Guides [selection]

Egri, Lajos. 1946 [or later editions]. The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Field, Syd. 1979 [or later editions]. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting.

Snyder, Blake. 2005. Save the cat! The last book on screenwriting you'll ever need. Studio City, CA: M. Wiese Productions.

Vogler, Christopher. 1992 [or later editions]. The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers.

Film Studies Reference Books:

Bordwell, David. 2006. The Way Hollywood Tells It: Story and Style in Modern Movies. Berkeley: University of California Press. 298 pages.

Mittell, Jason. 2015. Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling. New York: New York University Press. 277 pages.

Thompson, Kristin. 1999. Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 398 pages.

Plus additional texts that the student chooses for the final examination based on personal interest.