Introduction av Eugène Delacroix

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-297) and index.

What is a story? ; Three-act structure ; Five-act structure ; The importance of change ; How we tell stories ; Fractals ; Acts ; The inciting incident ; Scenes ; Putting it all together ; Showing and telling ; Character and characterization ; Character and structural design ; Dialogue and characterization ; Exposition ; Subtext ; Television and the triumph of structure ; Series and serial structure ; Change in drama series ; Home again ; Why? ; Act structure of Raiders of the lost ark ; Hamlet - the structural form ; Being John Malkovich - the structural form ; The godfather - the structural form ; First and last ac parallels: som further examples ; A lighning guide to screenwritign gurus