Acknowledgements
Preface
Foreword
Author's Note
PART I: FEATURE FILMS
1. An Introduction to Sequences
Why Sequences?
The Origin of Sequences
How A Screenplay Works
2. Toy Story: Firing on All Eight
3. The Shop Around the Corner: Fractured Symmetry
4. Double Indemnity: Flashback to the Future
5. The Nights of Cabiria: Nocturnal Episodes
6. North By Northwest: 1,700 Miles in Nine Sequences
7. Lawrence of Arabia: Sixteen Sequences and an Intermission
8. The Graduate: Passive Main Character
9. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Midpoint Reversal
10. The Fellowship of the Ring: The Shotgun Approach
11. Mustang: Five Sisters and Their Subplots
12. Parasite: The Goal-Oriented Ensemble
PART II: SERIES
13. An Introduction to Series
Why Series?
The Storytelling Challenge of the Serial
The Sequence and the Serial
The Serial and the Three-Act Structure
14. Breaking Bad Pilot: The Garlic in the Coffee
15. Insecure Pilot: Three Subplots in Thirty Minutes
16. Barry Pilot: Comic Incongruity
Bibliography
Index