Episode 145: The Anatomy of Genres — A Conversation with John Truby

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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John Truby (author of one of our favorite screenwriting books, The Anatomy of Story) joins us to talk about his new book, The Anatomy of Genres. We chat about movies and breakdown why people don't talk enough about genre, if they talk about it at all.

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0:35.4	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay.
0:38.5	The podcast for each episode, we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
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0:46.2	So I'm here with part of the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand.
0:50.1	Hello, everyone.
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0:54.6	So anyone who is familiar with the Lessons from the Screenplay YouTube channel has surely
0:59.0	heard me say probably more times than they care in his book, The Anatomy of Story,
1:03.7	John Trueby writes, because it's one of, if not the most referenced book in the videos
1:09.2	on Lessons from the screenplay.
1:15.8	He has a new book out called The Anatomy of Genres, How Story Forms Explain the The Way the World Works, and he is here to chat with us about it.
1:18.8	John Truby, welcome to the show.
1:21.0	Well, thank you for having me.
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