The new book on screenwriting by Kamill Akhmetov stands out against the background of traditional works on screenwriting due to its careful systematization and historical approach. The development of dramatic composition — from the traditional linear narrative to the innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries — is traced by the author on the examples of the works of David Wark Griffith, Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Alain Rene, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini , Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Solovyov, Rashid Nugmanov, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan and other famous filmmakers. Kamill Akhmetov analyzes contemporary film and drama trends, including methods of displaying the work of human consciousness, considers the basic principles of adapting stories for cinema, and formulates the author's concept of contextual narrative. The appendix describes the main stages of working on a script and provides a list of more than 250 films recommended for viewing. The book will be interesting and useful to filmmakers, screenwriters, students of film schools and those who want to better understand cinema and screenwriting.
