TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rosenthal,Alan
TI  - From Chariots of fire to The king's speech: writing biopics and docudramas 
SN  - 9780809332991
AV  - PN1996 .F766 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Carbondale
PB  - Southern Illinois University Press
KW  - Motion picture authorship
KW  - Biographical drama
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Historical drama
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction --; Clearing your head. The popular genre --; What is docudrama? --; Choosing a dynamic subject --; Starting to work. Research --; The dramatic elements --; Shaping the film --; From treatment to full script. The outline treatment --; Writing dialogue and narration --; Beginning your script --; Special considerations. Adaptations --; Print the legend? --; Rights and legal issues --; Afterword; 2; b
N2  - Over the past decade, movie audiences have become hungry for films based on real people and historical events. Never was this more evident than during the best-picture showdown between The King's Speech and The Social Network during the 2011 Academy Awards, a scene then repeated, with Argo, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty in the 2013 awards. While Hollywood moguls have come to recognize the box-office revenue and critical acclaim that accompany such films and are now fast-tracking many docudramas into theaters, there remains a need for more reality-based film scripts. In From "Chariots of Fire" t
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