Fictional Worlds I: The Symbolic Journey & The Style System (Storytelling on Display E-book 1)

“Create Your Personal World!” is a motto of visionary artists. All of us take pleasure in escaping into, and journeying inside, fictional realms. Some aspire to create their very own distinctive inventive worlds. Fictional Worlds I is VOLUME ONE of the four-ebook set. (Go to creator’s amazon web page or storytellingonscreen.com for particulars on VOLUMES II-IV. Word that the print version has all 4 components below one cowl).

Supposed for all readers who love literature and movie, and particularly for writers, filmmakers, and videogame designers, this e-book set factors at new methods of navigating, exploring, and creating entrancing fictional universes. This set aspires to make its readers extra assured fictional world vacationers and compelling storytellers. A holistic and evolutionary research of narrative from historic rituals, myths and fairytales to the present day, this e-book set blends a inventive and mental strategy to writing. The themes of journey, the wonderworld, quest for data, symbolic death-rebirth, battle decision, household, and group are on the core of this inquiry into the character of narrative, its politics and poetics. Instructing nuts and bolts of writing fiction, these books join the “cultural” dots within the trajectory of the dramatic arc, elucidating the facility of storytelling. With Odysseus as a information, Fictional Worlds is a journey by way of narrative traditions and inventive debates. VOLUME ONE focuses on the Hero’s Journey, the ocean voyage, motion journey and fantasy, explaining their cultural features, and the way to write for genres. The following three volumes discover drama, tragedy, thriller, crime fiction, comedy, transmedia storytelling and poetics of tomorrow.

“Sensible… excess of a screenwriting guide. Ranging throughout the globe and all through historical past now we have right here a blinding survey of the mental foundations and prospects of the cinema. Should-reading for anybody who’s eager about how and why we inform tales on display screen.” –– David Desser, creator of Eros plus Bloodbath: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema; co-author of American Jewish Filmmakers

“A brand new concept of narrative, which I discover convincing and uplifting. Illuminating and helpful anthropological concept of genres. Terrific alternative of examples and evaluation. ‘Artistic Options for the Formulaic Plot’ shall be immensely useful to practitioners. Amongst attention-grabbing concepts: the homicide thriller as tragedy in reverse! And the function of movie noir… And ‘Ulysses as a Peter Pan for grownups’!! — I like it!” –– Linda Hutcheon, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, College of Toronto, creator of A Poetics of Postmodernism, The Politics of Postmodernism, and A Idea of Parody

“An progressive strategy to instructing screenwriting, based mostly in authentic scholarship of actual significance. The e book’s concepts are of spectacular originality and practicality, and expounded with exemplary readability. Dr. Alexander does a splendid job making a case for the brand new and extra productive understanding of style. The writing is usually elegant. The chapter on thriller is so sensible that it alone makes this e book worthy of a semester’s research.” –– R. Bruce Elder, filmmaker; creator of Concord and Dissent: Movie and Avant-Garde Artwork Actions, and DADA, Surrealism and the Cinematic Impact

“There’s a lot I love about Fictional Worlds, beginning with the core challenge of bridging between narrative concept, anthropological views on delusion and ritual, and work in display screen research. I’ve by no means seen the books addressing Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero’s Journey’ with relation to screenwriting within the exhaustive element and with the nuance that Alexander deploys right here, and with such a wealthy array of examples, whereas tracing connections within the tales which have emerged throughout occasions and cultures.” –– Henry Jenkins, Professor, USC, creator of Convergence Tradition: The place Previous and New Media Collide