1st Edition
Creating Dialogue for TV Screenwriters Talk Television
By Monika Bednarek
Copyright 2019
68 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
68 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
68 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professionals who talk about all things related to dialogue – from naturalistic style to the building of characters to swearing and dialect. Screenwriters/showrunners David Mandel ( Curb Your Enthusiasm , Veep ), Jane Espenson ( Buffy, Battlestar Galactica,... Read more
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The writers/showrunners
3 On great dialogue
4 On naturalism
5 On the expression of emotion
6 On building characters through language
7 On swearing
8 On dialect
9 Conclusion
Biography
Monika Bednarek is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. She has authored six academic books, most recently Language and Television Series: A Linguistic Approach to TV Dialogue (2018). Her research interests include corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, media linguistics, sociolinguistics, and the linguistic expression of emotion and attitude.
