Inside The Writers' Room : Conversations with American TV Writers - Christina Kallas

Inside The Writers' Room

Conversations with American TV Writers

By: Christina Kallas

Paperback | 13 December 2013 | Edition Number 1

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Television drama has come to rival cinema in its sophisticated narrative form and high production values. At the heart of this success is the television writer, and TV has become the home of some of the most exciting and high quality writing.

In a series of original interviews, showrunners and writers from some of the biggest American TV dramas of recent years share their experiences and practices of the 'writers' room', on shows such as The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men and Game of Thrones.

Christina Kallas frames these insider insights with an astute overview of the writer's instrumental role in the rise of sophisticated TV narrative, and concluding reflections which will be invaluable to writers, critics and fans alike.
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'Anyone who's ever romanticised the writers' room of US network/cable TV legend, this book - as gripping and thought-provoking as the best dramas it gets under the bonnet of - grants exclusive access to a world that's equal parts hard, unforgiving reality and unfettered creative wonder. The simple, honest interrogation of a glittering parade of showrunners means every page packs a punch for the daydreaming writer of the next Sopranos.' - Andrew Collins, Film Editor, Radio Times, UK 'As feature films stage more and more spectacle, the human need for stories gets fulfilled elsewhere. Namely on television, where the characters' lives actually continue, also in between and after all the dramatic and tumultous events. Just like in real life. Inside the Writers' Room provides a unique insight into why the stories told in contemporary TV series work so well and why the writers are in charge. Recommended reading for anyone interested in TV series, required reading for anyone interested in writing them.' - Sveinbjorn Baldvinsson, Screenwriter, Head of Screenwriting at the Norwegian Film School, Norway 'It offers a window into the inner workings of many of our current top shows, how the operations work, how the writers interact, how the process is completed, what the writer's room is like, who's in control, why television is a writer's medium.' - David Howard, Professor and Founder of the Graduate Screenwriting Program at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, USA 'As an (experienced) TV writer herself, Christina knows her stuff. Under her alert guidance writers talk openly about their work and their way of creating it ... A must for every writer and for anyone who wishes to become one.' - Marc Terjung, TV Creator, Germany

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