The Comic Hero's Journey. Steve Kaplan

Author: Steve Kaplan
Number of pages: 195
Language: Russian
Size: 90х120 мм
Publisher: Media Resources Management
Genre: Media
Publication year: 2020

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The Comic Hero's Journey is a new book by Steve Kaplan, a legendary Hollywood script-consultant, and a distinguished movie script theorist and practitioner.

The book itself provides an examination and assemblage of a sensitive mechanism of comedy, and is not a traditional script writing manual. The author helps you to tell your unique story skillfully, using versatile and intuitive plot construction techniques. Moreover, he focuses on principles of creation a clue element of any well-done script, namely a living, recognizable, humanly understandable Comic Hero. 

The book refers to all readers, who are engaged in comedy content creation and production, experts as well as beginners.

Steve Kaplan is the most sought-after US expert on comedy writing and production. In addition to having taught at UCLA, NYU, Yale, and other top universities, Kaplan created the HBO Workspace, the HBO New Writers Program, and was co-founder and Artistic Director of Manhattan’s Punch Line Theatre. He has served as a consultant to such companies as DreamWorks, Disney, Aardman Animation, HBO, and has worked with producers and production companies in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, London, Ireland, and Sweden.

Published by Media Resources Management in MediaBook series in a partnership with Dizel Studio.