125 years of film dramaturgy. From the brothers Lumiere to the nollan brothers

A new book about film dramaturgy from Camilla Akhmetov is distinguished against the background of traditional works on scriptwriting with careful systematization and historical approach. The development of the dramatic composition - from the traditional linear story to the innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries - the author traces the examples of the works of David Warc Griffith, Lev Kuleshov, Sergey Eisenstein, Orson Weles, Akira Kurosawa, Alena Rene, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alfred Hichcoka, Ingmara Bergmann. Federico Fellini , Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergey Solovyov, Rashid Nugmanov, Quentina Tarantino, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan and other famous filmmakers.

Camille Akhmetov analyzes modern cinema -dramatic trends, including methods for displaying the work of human consciousness, considers the basic principles of adaptation of stories for the cinema and formulates the author’s concept of a contextual narrative. The application describes the main stages of work on the script and a list of more than 250 films recommended for viewing is given.

The book will be interesting and useful to filmmakers, film scenaries, film school students and those who want to better understand the cinema and film dramaturgy