“What lurks in the shadows, just below waking consciousness?”
Subtext can be the most important element in text and in a performance. It’s an unseen force that speaks directly to the reader’s unconscious, deepening meaning and understanding. Great subtext reveals more than simple dialogue and action and is at the heart of the best books and films. It is what glues us to the screen.
This book goes far beyond dialogue, action, gestures, genre, and images. Written by one of the foremost script consultants in the world and the most prolific writer on screenwriting, this new edition adds new examples with chapters on analogy and love, and provides deeper explanations of how subtext works beneath the text. This edition has been expanded to be relevant to all fiction writers.
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One
Subtext: What Is It? How Do You Find It?
Chapter Two
The Backstory: What’s Behind It? What’s Before It?
Chapter Three
The Words: Not Telling It Like It Is
Case Study: Double Indemnity
Chapter Four
Playing with Analogies
Case Study: The Big Short
Chapter Five
Love Sparkles Beneath the Text
Case Study: “Abnormal Psychology” from Cheers
Chapter Six
Gestures and Action: Showing It Beneath the Lines
Chapter Seven
Images and Metaphors: What You See Is Not All You Get
Chapter Eight
What Lurks Within the Genre
Case Study: Avatar
Chapter Nine
The Super-Objective: Where and How Does the Subtextual River Flow?
Case Study: Ordinary People
Chapter Ten
Writer Alvin Sargent Ruminates about Subtext
Om författaren
Dr. Linda Seger is the founder of the script consulting business. She has consulted on over 2, 000 scripts since 1981 from all six continents and is considered one of the foremost script consultants in the world. As the author of nine books on screenwriting, she’s the most prolific writer in this field. She’s given seminars in over 30 countries, on six continents. She received a number of awards for her work, including the Candlelight Award for being a light to the entertainment industry, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Redemptive Film Festival for her work as a script consultant, and the Living Legacy Award from the Moondance International Women’s Film Festival for her work in sup-port of women.
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