The comic hero's journey : serious story structure for fabulously funny films

The comic hero's journey Serious story structure for fabulously funny films

Steve Kaplan, 1951-

Book - 2018

"This book applies concepts from the Hero's Journey to the writing of comedy screenplays, using a broad range of examples from movies to demonstrate how these archetypal principles work in a comedy context"--

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Subjects
Comedy films > Authorship.
Motion picture authorship.
Published
Studio City, CA : Michael Wiese Productions [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Steve Kaplan, 1951- (author)
Physical Description
vi, 167 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN
9781615932870
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. The Schlemiel with a Thousand Faces
  • Chapter 2. A Guy Walks Into a Bar: The Normal World
  • Chapter 3. Dumb and Dumber ... and Dumberer: Characters in Comedy
  • Chapter 4. WTF? or "We're Not in Kansas Anymore": The Comic Catalyst
  • Chapter 5. Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!: Reaction-Into New Territory
  • Chapter 6. Hooking Up: Connections, Allies, and Enemies
  • Chapter 7. "... There Was a Hat?": New Directions and the Discovered Goal
  • Chapter 8. Lost at Sea: Disconnections
  • Chapter 9. "Who Ya Gonna Call?": Racing to the Finish
  • Chapter 10. "You Had Me at Hello": Restorations and Celebrations
  • Chapter 11. "Why a Duck?": Q&A
  • About the Author

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