Sw American Case Studies

Case studies of American screenwriting (美国电影剧作案例) — Mei Feng's readings of the Hollywood Western (value pairs, standard flow, four oppositions), screwball comedy (social identity, strong heroine, father figure, motive shifts, buddy vs adversary two-hander, dialogue), Billy Wilder (disguise, Lubitsch touch, meet-cute, realism), Hitchcock and his writers (adaptation authorship, credits), Adaptation (Kaufman/McKee), Mildred Pierce (eight drafts, woman's film + noir), Thelma & Louise ("but" method, mirror pair), Fargo (character first, Coen method), Good Will Hunting (five-part structure, director's cuts), American Beauty (POV strategy, quasi-multi-protagonist, genre mix, red discipline), Eternal Sunshine (1:5:1, image motifs, single sealed protagonist); Walter's American Graffiti and Creature Comforts; the Hollywood masterclass films (Bourne, Guardians, Zootopia, Thor, Big Daddy); Hoxter's Winter's Bone and Jojo Rabbit; Snyder's Miss Congeniality; Field's Chinatown. Use when you want a worked example of how a sp

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