Muse & the Marketplace 2019

The shower scene in Psycho, the train station shoot-out in The Untouchables, the escape from the booby-trapped cave in Raiders of the Lost Ark. These set pieces are what audiences gaspingly recall three hours, three months, three years after they leave the theater. But they are not limited to to the multiplex. We will discuss the timing and arrangement of these crescendoes within short stories, essays, novels, memoirs, films and comics so that you might include similar moments that will transform your stories from merely memorable to iconic.