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Character
- The Art of Role and Cast Design for Page, Stage, and Screen
- Narrated by: Robert McKee
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
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Dialogue
- The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
- Written by: Robert McKee
- Narrated by: Robert McKee
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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In Dialogue, Robert McKee offers in-depth analysis for how characters speak on the screen, on the stage, and on the page in believable and engaging ways. From Macbeth to Breaking Bad, McKee deconstructs key scenes to illustrate the strategies and techniques of dialogue. Dialogue applies a framework of incisive thinking to instruct the prospective writer on how to craft artful, impactful speech.
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Brilliant and Dedicated
- By Tim Feller on 2020-01-17
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Action explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but wins the war on clichés. Teaming up with the former co-host of The Story Toolkit, Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality by deconstructing the action genre, illuminating the challenges, and, more importantly, demonstrating how to master the demands of plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity.
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- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Academy Awards and Emmy Awards runs off the page. The cornerstone of his program is his singular book, Story, which has defined how we talk about the art of story creation. Now in Storynomics, McKee partners with digital marketing expert and Skyword CEO Tom Gerace to map a path for brands seeking to navigate the rapid decline of interrupt advertising.
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Best book on purposeful storytelling I've read.
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Written by: Robert McKee, and others
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Have you written a story with an exciting concept and interesting characters - but it just isn't grabbing the attention of readers or agents? It's time to look deeper into the story beats that create realistic and compelling character arcs. Internationally published, award-winning novelist K.M. Weiland shares her acclaimed method for achieving memorable and moving character arcs in every book you write.
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Indispensable
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Here's what started the phenomenon: This book has been a best seller for over 15 years and has been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny, and candid look inside the movie business. Save the Cat is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying.
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Great info but lacking PDF content
- By Jason on 2018-12-07
Written by: Blake Snyder
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Dialogue
- The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
- Written by: Robert McKee
- Narrated by: Robert McKee
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall
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In Dialogue, Robert McKee offers in-depth analysis for how characters speak on the screen, on the stage, and on the page in believable and engaging ways. From Macbeth to Breaking Bad, McKee deconstructs key scenes to illustrate the strategies and techniques of dialogue. Dialogue applies a framework of incisive thinking to instruct the prospective writer on how to craft artful, impactful speech.
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Brilliant and Dedicated
- By Tim Feller on 2020-01-17
Written by: Robert McKee
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- Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
- Written by: Robert McKee
- Narrated by: Robert McKee
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress, and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese, and David Bowie are just a few of his celebrity alumni. Writers, producers, development executives, and agents all flock to his lecture series, praising it as a mesmerizing and intense learning experience.
Written by: Robert McKee
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Action
- The Art of Excitement for Screen, Page, and Game
- Written by: Robert McKee, Bassim El-Wakil
- Narrated by: Robert McKee
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Action explores the ways that a modern-day writer can successfully tell an action story that not only stands apart, but wins the war on clichés. Teaming up with the former co-host of The Story Toolkit, Bassim El-Wakil, legendary story lecturer Robert McKee guides writers to award-winning originality by deconstructing the action genre, illuminating the challenges, and, more importantly, demonstrating how to master the demands of plot with surprising beats of innovation and ingenuity.
Written by: Robert McKee, and others
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Storynomics
- Written by: Robert McKee, Thomas Gerace
- Narrated by: Robert Mckee, Thomas Gerace
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Academy Awards and Emmy Awards runs off the page. The cornerstone of his program is his singular book, Story, which has defined how we talk about the art of story creation. Now in Storynomics, McKee partners with digital marketing expert and Skyword CEO Tom Gerace to map a path for brands seeking to navigate the rapid decline of interrupt advertising.
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Best book on purposeful storytelling I've read.
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Written by: Robert McKee, and others
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Creating Character Arcs
- The Masterful Author's Guide to Uniting Story Structure, Plot, and Character Development
- Written by: K.M. Weiland
- Narrated by: Sonja Field
- Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Have you written a story with an exciting concept and interesting characters - but it just isn't grabbing the attention of readers or agents? It's time to look deeper into the story beats that create realistic and compelling character arcs. Internationally published, award-winning novelist K.M. Weiland shares her acclaimed method for achieving memorable and moving character arcs in every book you write.
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Indispensable
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Written by: K.M. Weiland
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Save the Cat!
- The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
- Written by: Blake Snyder
- Narrated by: George Newbern
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Great info but lacking PDF content
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Whether you want to write your own scripts or simply gain a deeper appreciation for the great stories you see unfold on the screen, Professor Angus Fletcher is here to show you the way in Screenwriting 101: Mastering the Art of Story. Professor Fletcher, Professor of English and Film at The Ohio State University, brings both a personal and scholarly perspective to this craft. As a screenwriter himself, he has experienced the ins and outs of the process first-hand.
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Top notch.
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Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In this book, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal motif of adventure and transformation that runs through virtually all of the world's mythic traditions. He also explores the Cosmogonic Cycle, the mythic pattern of world creation and destruction.
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Not much new here from the original Save The Cat
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- The Fastest Way to Improve Any Manuscript
- Written by: James Scott Bell
- Narrated by: James Scott Bell
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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There is one sure-fire way of improving your novel fast...You may know the fundamentals of how to write fiction. You may be more than competent in plot, structure and characters. But if your dialogue is dull it will drag the whole story down...Don't sabotage your chances of selling your work to readers or publishers because the dialogue is unexceptional. Dazzle them with what the characters say. How to Write Dazzling Dialogue will give you the tools to do it.
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- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Whether it’s the high-stakes pressure of solving a last-minute problem on set or the joy of pulling off a perfect shot by the skin of your teeth, Attias brings you right into the director’s chair, sharing his knowledge and taking you through the process one challenging episode at a time.
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In this essential guide to acting, internationally renowned directing coach Judith Weston demonstrates what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, and what directors do wrong. She also goes over script analysis and preparation and how actors work, and she shares important and helpful insights into the director/actor relationship.
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Very thorough
- By Eric on 2021-07-28
Written by: Judith Weston
Publisher's Summary
The long-awaited third volume of Robert McKee’s trilogy on the art of fiction.
Following up his perennially best-selling writers' guide Story and his inspiring exploration of the art of verbal action in Dialogue, the most sought-after expert in the storytelling brings his insights to the creation of compelling characters and the design of their casts.
Character explores the design of a character universe: The dimensionality, complexity and arcing of a protagonist, the invention of orbiting major characters, all encircled by a cast of service and supporting roles.
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- Amazon Kunde
- 2021-12-08
Great substance except for political correctness
McKee creates another great, deep psychoanalytical exploration into the craft of storytelling; this time with character. It’s great he uses his own voice. His ideas are consistent throughout his teachings and he mostly approaches character exploration from an unbiased position. I’ve removed one star because of his saying that white men are “kings” and black people are victims. Signaling that white men should feel shame is in my humble opinion is a toxic political stance that’s deeply subjective, trend based and infused with a subtle yet extremist white feminist agenda for power in western society. Lastly, alternating between the he and she pronoun although well meaning was a little bit disorienting. Otherwise, if you can get over these “woke” tactics the book is full of expertly structured insights into writing character at the highest level professionally.
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- C. Deputy
- 2021-06-27
I question whether Robert wrote it
I consume of lot of these books. They mostly say the same things. But I like McKee. He's entertaining and has good insights. This book was well worth it. Different perspectives I hadn't considered before.
However, the plethora of mispronounciations has me questioning whether he actually sourced this material or if he just put his name on it. Doesn't really matter. But curious, still.
5 people found this helpful
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- Lukas
- 2021-07-31
Powerful book for any writer
I know I will re-listen to this a couple of times the coming years.
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- Francisco Montas
- 2021-06-22
Reads like a very entertaining psychology book
Absolutely essential reading for the writer or aspiring writer. Pretty good insights for anyone in leadership or interested in human nature as well.
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- Samuel D R
- 2022-10-12
Philisophical Drivel
I have no joy in saying this, but I can recall exactly 2 insights this book gave:
-Characters are deep and dimensional if they have contradictions.
-Readers like to feel like they know a character better than that character knows him/herself.
The rest of the book is mainly high–minded sounding talk about humanness in story and current cultural goings–on.
Very little in way of rules of thumb, tools for writers, or questions to ask one's self about their characters.
McKee also has a bad habit of reading off very long lists of opposites (Happy/Sad, Good/Evil, Loyalty/Disloyalty) etc. etc.
He does this SEVERAL times a chapter, You will notice it, trust me.
I listened to the entire book because I was hoping that eventually there would be some good insight which earned this book the high ratings it has.
Actually, your reward at the end is a very long chapter describing a racially–charged BDSM sex play in gratuitous detail. I guess because the characters are embarrassed about their fetishes and thus have a contradictory and therefore deep meaning? I'm not sure.
McKee's other book Dialogue is actually quite good and pretty useful. I would skip over this one.
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- Kindle Customer
- 2021-07-31
No stone unturned on character analysis!Thanks RM!
This book is at the top of my collection on Characterization. The examples are illuminating.
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- BillionaireManzi
- 2021-07-21
Fantastic Additional Class
Mr. Robert Mckee always knows when to put your mind on what really matters. .
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- Joanne T
- 2021-07-10
A “Bible” for fiction writers, screenplay writers, true artists
I solute Robert McKee for his timeless contribution to humanity with this masterpiece. Thank you!
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- J. Hansen
- 2022-12-15
No connection between theory and storytelling
A lot of philosophy and psychology, but failed to make the connection to practical storytelling, At least not clear enough for me.
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- Sergey Evangelista
- 2022-10-29
a little bit dry and a lot of theory, but good
I listen to story and took a plethora of notes from it, and this book is also a small treasure trove of value for a story writer. The thing is this book is deeply ladled with a lot more theory and hypotheticals and history lessons when I was really expecting a book closer to story by Robert McKee ... This one I really found myself zoning in and out a lot more than I did with the other book. when he gets to the point and is clear and informational and gives solid, concrete examples It is invaluable. overall I would recommend it but I know there's definitely sections I would want to skip when I reread