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Alternative Scriptwriting, 6th Edition
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Alternative Scriptwriting, 6th Edition

by Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt, Jeff Rush
January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
15h
English
Routledge
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5 The Three-Act Spectrum

DOI: 10.4324/9781003242307-5

Since the first edition of this book was published in 1990, the gap between mainstream and alternative films has closed considerably. (Indeed, the very word alternative is ripe for an overdue examination.) Today, major studios have branches for acquiring and distributing “smaller” films. Many more “smaller” films are recognized in major film festivals. At least on the surface, many stylistic devices first introduced in alternative films have been appropriated by the mainstream, just as independent films have adapted those of the mainstream.

Given this, we thought it would be useful to move away from a strictly binary analysis of the three-act structure and consider the three-act structure ...

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