The new book on film dramaturgy from Kamill Akhmetov stands out from traditional works on screenwriting with its careful systematization and historical approach. The author traces the development of dramatic composition - from traditional linear narrative to innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries - using the examples of the works of David Wark Griffith, Lev Kuleshov, Sergei Eisenstein, Orson Welles, Akira Kurosawa, Alain Resnais, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini , Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergei Solovyov, Rashid Nugmanov, Quentin Tarantino, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan and other famous filmmakers. Kamill Akhmetov analyzes modern film-dramatic trends, including methods of displaying the work of human consciousness, considers the basic principles of adapting stories for cinema and formulates the author’s concept of contextual narrative . The appendix describes the main stages of working on a script and provides a list of more than 250 films recommended for viewing. The book will be interesting and useful for filmmakers, screenwriters, film school students and those who want to better understand cinema and film drama.