Screenwriting category: 401 books
by Wallace Wang
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
One little known secret of Hollywood is Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software, a low-cost alternative to expensive screenwriting word processor software. Fade In not only costs a fraction of the price of popular screenwriting programs like Final Draft and Movie Magic Screenwriter, but it can...
Ethics in Screenwriting
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Ethics in Screenwriting: New Perspectives is a book that breaks new ground by forging a link between screenwriting research and a burgeoning interest in film, media, and narrative ethics. Going beyond the orthodox discussion of morality of film and television, the collection focuses on ethics in screenwriting....
Screenwriting for Neurotics
A Beginner's Guide to Writing a Feature-Length Screenplay from Start to Finish
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Screenwriting for Neurotics is a quirky and accessible handbook for beginning screenwriters. Whether you are a student in a screenwriting class or just someone who wants to try their hand at writing for film or television, this handy guidebook makes the entire process simple and unintimidating. Scott...
The Screenwriting Quick Start
Basics of Development, Politics, Networking, and More in a One-Night Read
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Building upon his previous book, The Screenwriting Life, Rich Whiteside delivers another marvelous insider look at the screenwriting industry. The Screenwriting Quick Start is written from the heart in a fast-paced, conversational-style that delivers tip after tip for the first-time screenwriter....
The Psychology of Screenwriting
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
The Psychology of Screenwriting is more than an interesting book on the theory and practice of screenwriting. It is also a philosophical analysis of predetermination and freewill in the context of writing and human life in our mediated world of technology. Drawing on humanism, existentialism, Buddhism,...
The Essential Screenplay (3-Book Bundle)
Screenplay: Foundations of Screenwriting, Screenwriter's Workbook, and Screenwriter's Problem Solver
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Hollywood’s script guru teaches you how to write a screenplay in the ultimate three-volume guide to writing for film, featuring “the ‘bible’ of screenwriting” (The New York Times), Screenplay—now celebrating forty years of screenwriting success!
This blockbuster ebook bundle includes:
SCREENPLAY:...
Screenwriters and Screenwriting
Putting Practice into Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Screenwriters and Screenwriting is an innovative, fresh and lively book that is useful for both screenwriting practice and academic study. It is international in scope, with case studies and analyses from the US, the UK, Australia, Japan, Ireland and Denmark. The book presents a distinctive collection...
by J. Madison Davis, Mark Eaton, Jon Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2014
Screenwriters often joke that “no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay.” Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the “green light” from its financial backers and wins approval from its audience. This innovative volume gives...
Off the Page
Screenwriting in the Era of Media Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Off the Page examines the business and craft of screenwriting in the era of media convergence. Daniel Bernardi and Julian Hoxter use the recent history of screenwriting labor coupled with close analysis of scripts in the context of the screenwriting paraindustry—from “how to write a winning script”...
Next Level Screenwriting
Insights, Ideas and Inspiration for the Intermediate Screenwriter
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
Next Level Screenwriting is an intermediate screenwriting book, for those that have already learned the basics of screenwriting, written a screenplay or two and want to bring their writing and stories to the next level.
Each chapter of the book examines a specific aspect of screenwriting, such...
Screenwriting Fundamentals
The Art and Craft of Visual Writing
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Screenwriting Fundamentals: The Art and Craft of Visual Writing takes a step-by-step approach to screenwriting, starting with a blank page and working through each element of the craft. Written in an approachable anecdote-infused style that’s full of humor, Bauer shows the writer how to put the...
Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434
The Industry's Premier Teacher Reveals the Secrets of the Successful Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
For decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the secrets of his course on the screenwriting process by actually writing an original script, step by step, that appears in the book.
by Joseph McBride
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Writing in Pictures is a refreshingly practical and entertaining guide to screenwriting that provides what is lacking in most such books: a clear, step-by-step demonstration of how to write a screenplay.
Seasoned screenwriter and writing teacher Joseph McBride breaks down the process into...
Crafty Screenwriting
Writing Movies That Get Made
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2002
The most innovative and creative screenwriting book yet, from an author who knows first-hand what it takes to get a movie made.
Based on an award-winning website hailed as "smart enough for professional screenwriters and accessible enough for aspiring screenwriters", Crafty Screenwriting...