125 years of screenwriting: From the Lumière brothers to the Nolan brothers

A new book on screenwriting by Kamill Akhmetov stands out against the backdrop of traditional works on screenwriting due to its thorough systematization and historical approach. The development of dramatic composition (from traditional linear storytelling to innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries) is traced by the author through examples from the works of D.W. Griffith, Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, 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 modern screenwriting trends, including methods of depicting the workings of the human mind, examines the main principles of adapting stories for film, and formulates an author's concept of contextual narrative. The appendix describes the main stages of screenplay development and provides a list of more than 250 recommended films for viewing.