Screenwriting category: 401 books
by Tom Lazarus
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2001
Most books about screenplays instruct on three-act structure, character arcs, and how to format a script. But you already know all that.
Secrets of Film Writing reveals a working writer's secrets-the tips, short cuts, tricks, and insider advice that will get your story down on paper, maximize...
The Writing Dead
Talking Terror with TV'S Top Horror Writers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
The Writing Dead features original interviews with the writers of today's most frightening and fascinating shows. They include some of television's biggest names--Carlton Cuse (Lost and Bates Motel), Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Dead Like Me, Wonderfalls, and Pushing Daisies), David Greenwalt (Angel and...
Cut by Cut
Editing Your Film or Video
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2004
Learn how skilled editors can turn raw footage into polished art for film, television, or web. With practical project guidelines and advice on organizing digital and film cutting rooms, and much more.
Comedy Writing Self-Taught
The Professional Skill-Building Course in Writing Stand-Up, Sketch, and Situation Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
In “Comedy Writing Self-Taught,” Perret (a legendary comedy writing teacher as well as a famous TV comedy writer and producer) teaches aspiring comedy writers how they can teach themselves the essential principles of comedy writing through comedy analysis and writing exercises. Covering the essential...
My Story Can Beat Up Your Story
Ten Ways to Toughen Up Your Screenplay from Opening Hook to Knockout Punch
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
My Story Can Beat Up Your Story! is the same powerful, easytolearn system that industry insiders have used to generate millions of dollars in script sales and assignments.
How to Write It, How to Sell It
Everything a Screenwriter Needs to Know About Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1998
As a producer and successful screenwriter, Linda Palmer knows all of Hollywood's trade secrets--and in How to Write It, How to Sell It, she shares them all.
Linda Palmer knows that even in closed-door Hollywood, if your screenplay snags the interest of a producer, it doesn't matter who you are--you're...
by Anthony Friedmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
This updated edition of Writing for Visual Media will enable you to understand the nature of visual writing that lies behind the content of all visual media. This unique kind of writing must communicate to audiences through content producers, since audiences don’t read the script. Most media content...
by William Indick
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2004
Screenwriters must understand human behavior to make their stories come alive. This book clearly describes theories of personality and psychoanalysis with simple guidelines, thought provoking exercises, vivid film images and hundreds of examples from classic movies.
by J.K. Rowling
Language: German
Release Date: December 5, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: December 5, 2018
In »Phantastische Tierwesen und wo sie zu finden sind« wurde der mächtige schwarze Magier Gellert Grindelwald mit Unterstützung des Magizoologen Newt Scamander gefasst. Doch jetzt gelingt Grindelwald die Flucht und er beginnt Anhänger um sich zu scharen. Sein wahres Ziel – die Herrschaft von...
by C. W. Neill
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Writing is hard. Millions of people have attempted to write a screenplay, and most of them have failed to finish it. Curt Neill should know: he's one of them. One day, while trying to get something down on paper, he wrote the following:
INT. I DON’T KNOW, AN APARTMENT?
CURT sits on the couch...
Get Your Hero Up a Tree
How to Write a Movie (That Doesn't Stink)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Created for the college classroom, and intended for aspiring screenwriters, Mark Achtenberg’s Get Your Hero Up a Tree: How to Write a Movie (That Doesn’t Stink) is a surprisingly refreshing and entertaining how-to book that tackles the medium of film. A long-time educator and respected expert...
Green Shadows, White Whale
A Novel of Ray Bradbury's Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable screenplay so the great director can begin filming.
But...
by Michael Connelly, T. Jefferson Parker, Lawrence Block
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
It’s no secret that authors have a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. The oft-repeated cliché that “the book was better than the movie” holds true for more reasons than the average reader will ever know. When asked about selling their book rights to Hollywood authors like to joke that they...
How to Write a Movie in 21 Days
The Inner Movie Method
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
The ultimate survival guide, How to Write a Movie in 21 Days takes the aspiring screenwriter the shortest distance from blank page to complete script.
Viki King's Inner Movie Method is a specific step-by-step process designed to get the story in the writer's onto the page. This method guides...