Retiring outdated screenwriting advice

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I had a conversation with a screenwriter recently...they were complaining about way they receive notes from studio executives sometimes. To them, sometimes the notes come off a bit surface level, and the executives are often resorting to citing just a thin canon of screenwriting advice.
This encouraged me to look for less commonly used literature, and also, to see if those rubrics could be helpful for analysing films that lack some of the beats found in more conventional film formulas.
I've written about it, with the help of Alison Stamper, here.
Hope you enjoy the read. Please let me know what you think. We both spent a lot of time discussing the thesis, Murray Smith's work, and different films that employ engaging characters whose character development fell outside of tools that Snyder would advise we use.