Screenwriting category: 401 books

சினிமாவை பற்றிய புரிதல் இல்லாமலும், கதைக்கும்,  திரைக்கதைக்கும் உள்ள வித்தியாசம் அறியாமலும், கதை, கதாபாத்திரத்தின்...

Cornwall, 1783. The American Revolutionary War is over. Cornishman Ross Poldark returns to his father's lands a battle-weary soul. Met by a homeland gripped in recession and the revelation of his father's death, Ross must contend with the disrepair of his property and the challenge of keeping his...

What is it that makes humans engage with a dramatic narrative? Is it linked to our primitive selves, contained within our instinctive experience? This innovative text argues that understanding how and why our human instincts are brought into play as we watch screen drama is the key to writing...

Wickedly funny, insightful, often absurd but always true, Clinging to the Iceberg explores the inner workings of the business of writing for hire. It’s written by someone whose career has spanned over forty years on stage and on screen, including thirty lucrative and sometimes uproarious ones in...

Before any lights, camera, or action, there's the script--arguably the most important single element in filmmaking, and Screenwriters on Screen-Writing introduces the men and women responsible for the screenplays that have produced some of the most successful and acclaimed films in Hollywood history....

This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir’s work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma. The 1930s ended in catastrophe for both for Renoir and for France: La Règle du jeu...

Strong characters – characters we love and hate, those we despair for at their low moments and egg on to their triumphs – are the foundation of any successful script. Written by award-winning writer Rib Davis and now fully updated for its second edition, Creating Compelling Characters for Film,...

In The Screenwriters Taxonomy, award-winning screenwriter and educator Eric R. Williams offers a new collaborative approach for creative storytellers to recognize, discuss and reinvent storytelling paradigms. Williams presents seven different aspects of storytelling that can be applied to any fictional...

Have you ever struggled with a story? Have you wondered whether your writing is good enough? This book explain the basic elements of 'stories' and how those elements work. In this book, you will learn about story structure, formulas (Hint: Formulas are optional), plots, and other things...

THE SCREENWRITERS WAY is for writers that want to take action and get writing NOW! Designed by a working Hollywood screenwriter, this breakthrough guide empowers you to successfully tackle the hundreds of choices you will face in every act, on every page, in every scene.  - Clarify and...

Women Screenwriters is a study of more than 300 female writers from 60 nations, from the first film scenarios produced in 1986 to the present day. Divided into six sections by continent, the entries give an overview of the history of women screenwriters in each country, as well as individual biographies of its most influential.

ADAPTING YOUR NOVEL INTO A SCREENPLAY BOOK TO SCREEN was first presented as part of the 25th Annual Writer's Conference sponsored by San Diego State University on February 6 through the 8th, 2009 at the Double Tree Hilton Hotel in Mission Hills, California. The following transcript was presented and...

A vibrant portrait of one of the most accomplished and prolific American screenwriters, by an award-winning biographer and essayist He was, according to Pauline Kael, “the greatest American screenwriter.” Jean-Luc Godard called him “a genius” who “invented 80 percent of what is used...

In Mike Figg's stylishly dark thriller, memories have murderous consequences as the haunting strains of Liszt's Liebestraum activate an electric link between a modern-day affair and the shocking truth of long ago. The screenplay is preceded by an extensive interview with Mike Figgis, in which he charts the journey that has taken him from the London fringe theatre to Hollywood.