Having read an early review copy of Screenwriting Unchained, I can say that this is without a doubt the best book on screenwriting and story structure available today. It offers a wide selection of screenwriting and diagnostic tools, some of these completely original – for example the Story-Type Method itself providing three main structural templates (plot-led, character-led and theme-led), or the idea of applying Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to screenwriting in order to assess a project’s potential audience. Initially following in the footsteps of Aristotle, Edward Mabley, Frank Daniel or Yves Lavandier, Emmanuel Oberg moves on from these sources of inspiration through a number of theoretical and technical aspects, but also through his refusal of any formula. Instead of restraining filmmakers’ creativity with dogmatic principles, the Story-Type Method provides the freedom to leave the so-called rules aside. The detailed case studies (Misery, Billy Elliot, Gravity, Silver Linings Playbook, Crash) are remarkable.