Essays about: "Antiplot"

Found 1 essay containing the word Antiplot.

  1. 1. Transformative Screenwriting: Charlie Kaufman’s Postmodern Adaptation of Story

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

    Author : Johan Sundberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Charlie Kaufman; Storytelling; Writing; Screenwriting; Transformative Screenwriting; Transformative; Postmodern; Kaufman; Robert McKee; McKee; Thesis; Essay; Master s; Master; Donald Kaufman; Plot; Archplot; Miniplot; Antiplot; Change; Statis; Screenwriter; Hollywood; Art Film; Synecdoche; Eternal Sunshine; Being John Malkovich; Susan Orlean; The Orchid Thief; Orchid Thief; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : The essay's investigation of postmodern storytelling and transformative screenwriting, in relation to how Robert McKee's Story is reflected in Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation – in text and subtext, form and content – shows that the film's form is that of the classical archplot. It is only Adaptation's content, reflecting the dream of an art film/antiplot that is critical – while the form is a complicitous Hollywood form. READ MORE