Eric R. Williams has written professionally for American Movie Classics, Universal Studios, Grateful Films and Fox Interactive. His screenplays have been workshopped at the Film IndependentProducers Lab in Los Angeles, and have won three prestigious awards: Best New Work from the Writers Guild of America, Award for Individual Excellence in Screenwriting from the Ohio Arts Council, and an Emmy Award for Interactive Media. Eric is also an award-winning educator and the inaugural director of the MFA in Communication Media Arts program at Ohio University, where he teaches screenwriting and virtual reality production. Eric earned his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University in Chicago, and his MFA at Columbia University in New York City. He is also the author of another book by Routledge, Screen Adaptation: Beyond the Basics (2017).

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List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1. The Need for a Roadmap

Part One: Defining the Film

2. Movie Types and Super Genres

3. Macro Genres and Micro Genres

4. Case Studies

Part Two: Refining the Film

5. Voice

6. Pathway

7. Point of View

8. Case Studies

About the Author

Index