List of screenwriting "gurus"
A screenwriting "guru" is a screenwriter, screenwriting teacher or author who writes or lectures about the craft of screenwriting. The term "guru" is a contentious one, not least because the word implies that these individuals are experts in the field and have much to teach aspirant screenwriters, yet few "gurus" have themselves achieved any success in the film industry and most are not known for their own screenplays/scripts.
Some "gurus" write books on the subject, some spend their time teaching workshops or holding one-on-one sessions with aspirant or beginning screenwriters, and some do both.
Among the most well-known "gurus" are:
- Syd Field -- The Foundations of Screenwriting, Screenplay, The Screenwriter's Handbook, Four Screenplays
- Robert McKee -- Story (book and seminar)
- Christopher Vogler -- The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers
- David Trottier -- The Screenwriter's Bible
- Linda Seger -- Making a Good Script Great
- Michael Hauge -- Writing Screenplays That Sell
- John Truby -- The Anatomy of Story, Great Screenwriting (DVD Video / MP3 Audio Seminar Course), Blockbuster (Story Software)
- Jeff Bollow -- FAST Screenplay (online system)
- Yves Lavandier -- Writing Drama
- Marilyn Horowitz -- "How to Write a Screenplay in 10 Weeks" & "The Four Magic Questions of Screenwriting" (books and seminars)
- Blake Snyder -- "Save the Cat" (book and seminars)
- William C. Martell -- "The Secrets of Action Screenwriting", (17 Blue-Books & Audio Courses)
- Jeffrey Schechter -- "My Story Can Beat Up Your Story" (Also developed TotallyWrite (software and seminars and the advanced screenwriting structuring application, Contour)
An academic overview and comparative summary of the work of most of the above Screenwriting gurus was published free, online by Joe Velikovsky in 2003.[citation needed]
The following writers and theorists are considered by some to have laid the foundations for contemporary screenplay analysis.
- Lajos Egri in The Art of Dramatic Writing
- Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Aristotle in Poetics
- Konstantin Stanislavski in An Actor Prepares, Building a Character, and Creating a Role
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