This innovative guide challenges the traditional three-act structure in screenwriting, encouraging writers to break free from formulaic approaches. Authors Ken Dancyger, Jessie Keyt, and Jeff Rush explore alternative storytelling methods across structure, genre, character, form, and tone. The updated edition features new examples from contemporary and classic cinema, episodic series, and insights into plot, character, and genre strategies. It also includes theatrical devices in film and case studies of influential storytellers like Billy Wilder, Kelly Reichardt, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and Kathryn Bigelow.