INTO THE WOODS: A FIVE ACT JOURNEY INTO STORY
Book ID/图书代码： 03540013B65696
English Summary/英文概要： Into The Woods is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories, from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke.
We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from it too. But what is a story? Hundreds of books about screenwriting and storytelling have been written, but none of them ask ’Why?’ Why do we tell stories? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way?
John Yorke has been telling stories almost his entire adult life, and the more he has done it, the more he has asked himself why? Every great thinker or writer has their theories: Aristotle, David Hare, Lajos Egri, Robert McKee, Gustav Freytag, David Mamet, Christopher Booker, Charlie Kaufman, William Goldman and Aaron Sorkin - all have offered insightful and illuminating answers. Here, John Yorke draws on these figures and more as he takes us on a historical, philosophical, scientific and psychological journey to the heart of all storytelling.
What he reveals is that there truly is a unifying shape to narrative - one that echoes the great fairytale journey into the woods, and one, like any great art, that comes from deep within. Much more than a ’how to write’ book, Into the Woods is an exploration of this fundamental structure underneath all narrative forms, from film and television to theatre and novel-writing. With astonishing detail and wisdom, John Yorke explains to us a phenomenon that, whether it is as a simple fable, or a big-budget 3D blockbuster, most of us experience almost every day of our lives.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《林间漫步》是一本由约翰??约克为我们带来的启示录，这名男子可以说占据了英国电视节目中绝大多数的剧情频道，而在本书中，他将揭开一切所谓故事背后的基本框架和故本质涵义。
人人都爱故事，学多人甚至喜欢讲故事，或是幻想着生活其中。然而究竟何为故事？人们创作了无数有关于荧屏剧本写作和故事编写的书籍，然而却从未有人进行过更深入的之一，究其“原因？”人们为何为讲述故事？而又为何所有的故事都神秘到惊人的相似？
约翰??约克可谓毕生都在讲故事，而随着他故事越讲越多，他也开始不禁自我质疑这一切故事产生的根源，故事从何而来？每一位伟大的思想家与作家都会有他们各自的一派理论：亚里士多德、戴维??黑尔、拉约什??艾格里、罗伯特??麦基、家什达夫??弗莱塔格、大卫??马梅、克里斯托弗??布克、查理??考夫曼、威廉??高德曼、亚伦??索金---所有的这些大师们都为我们提供了他们的见解和启发性回答。在本书中，约翰??约克引用了诸多以上各类名人的观点，带领我们从历史、哲学、科学及心理学的角度深入到故事叙述的核心地带。
通过本书，作者想要向我们传达：叙述故事确有其统一套路--沿着这条道路走下去，你会在林间漫步的同时听闻到伟大童话之旅的回响、而这条道路亦如同了其他伟大的艺术之路一般，是一条由内心延生而出的深沉之路。《林间漫步》不仅限于其他教会人们“如何写作”的书籍，它更深层地探索了所有叙事形式下所隐藏的深层基本结构，涵盖了从电影作品到电视剧集，从戏剧到小说的诸多类型。约翰??约克以其惊人的细节阐述与睿智地呈现，为我们阐释了这样我们绝大多数人在每天的生活中都要经历的现象：那便是抑或一则简单的寓言故事，抑或一部斥资巨大的3D大片。（DC）
Awards/获奖情况：“我至今阅读过的此类书籍中极为优秀与精彩的一本。从这本书中我收获了许多真理，但是我所从中获得的远非如此。约克总是能够一次次清晰地表达与呈现出我所渴望表述却无力阐明的观点。”— 尼尔·克洛斯，小说家，荧屏剧作家，《路德》（英剧）编剧
“一部有关于荧幕剧集创作的精彩解剖之作，能够帮助许多幸运之人实现他们的梦想。”—朱利安·费罗斯，作家，《唐顿庄园》（英剧）编剧
About the Author/作者介绍： 约翰·约克曾是BBC戏剧频道总制片，现任影视公司总负责人，改家英国独立制片机构曾拍摄《狼厅》等剧作。2005年，他创办了BBC创作学院，该学院现已培养出一批成功的电视编剧。JOHN YORKE former head of BBC Drama, is now the Managing Director of Company Pictures, the UK drama independent that is producing Wolf Hall, among others. In 2005 he created the BBC Writers Academy, which has produced a generation of successful television writers.
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