Screenwriting category: 401 books

Offering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the creative collaborations in writers' rooms and 'production hotels' through detailed case studies of Denmark's public service production culture.

"Twilight" is a Hero-and-the-Monster plot with a Happy Love ending. "The Hunger Games" is Utopia/Dystopia, and "Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Man's Chest" is a Nautical Adventure. Millions of viewers tune in to the popular "CSI" television series, and all three variations use the Cat-and-Mouse...

Since films were first produced, adapted works have predominantly borrowed primarily from traditional texts, such as novels and plays. Likewise, the study of film adaptations has also been fairly traditional, rarely venturing beyond a comparison of the source material to its often less revered counterpart....

Find your voice -- write your unique story that sells! Everyone has a story. Whether it is a drama, thriller, comedy, or horror, writing a screenplay is about finding your voice as a writer and writing your own unique story that will come alive through plays or movies. This book will show you the...

The Writers is the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the film, television, and streaming media industries in America. Featuring in-depth interviews with over fifty writers—including Mel Brooks, Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, and Frank Pierson—The Writers...

Break Into Writing For Television takes you from the very first line of the script through to becoming a regular writer for soaps and 'continuing dramas'. It starts with the basics of different types of script and production, and moves on to getting ideas, shaping character and dialogue, re-writing,...

Write What You Don't Know is a friendly manual for aspiring screenwriters. It encourages you to move beyond your comfort zones in search of stories. We all write what we know - how could we not? Writing what you don't know and doing it in an informed and imaginative way is what makes the process worthwhile. Hoxter...

'How To Be A Writer is a collection of interviews with famous writers, performers and industry insiders that takes the reader through a writer’s day, from getting up to giving in. And, along the way, asks: When do you get ideas? When should you write? How do you deal with your money? Who do you...

Drive in Cinema offers Žižek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most engaging and influential filmmakers of our time, from avant-garde directors Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vera Chytilová, to independent filmmakers William Klein, Oliver...

This book offers a novel understanding of the epistemological strategies that are mobilized by the essay film, and of where and how such strategies operate. Against the backdrop of Adorno's discussion of the essay form's anachronistic, anti-systematic and disjunctive mode of resistance, and capitalizing...

When a big order is made by the IRB, a freedom-fighter group, to escort an American mercenary over the border, the two brothers find themselves left high and dry with Tammy Dawson, an independent black female who fought in The Great War. A sitcom pilot.

I segreti per scrivere una buona sceneggiatura per il cinema. Tutte le norme e le regole che possono cambiare il vostro di una semplice idea.

La Ruota della Vita non si ferma mai. L’uomo nasce, cresce, vive, acquisisce esperienze, quindi muore, poi rinasce, cresce, acquisisce altre esperienze, muore nuovamente. Quando l’anima torna alla Casa del Padre, cede tutto il suo bagaglio di esperienze vissute nell’arco dell’intera vita,...

La teoria dell’ Effetto Farfalla dice che tutti gli eventi sono concatenati strettamente tra di loro in modo tale che anche il solo battito di una farfalla è in grado di condizionare il clima dall’altra parte del globo. Un anonimo professore di Italiano di un Liceo di Roma spiega a suoi studenti...