Screenwriting category: 401 books
The Savvy Screenwriter
How to Sell Your Screenplay (and Yourself) Without Selling Out!
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
The Savvy Screenwriter demystifies the film industry and reveals what aspiring screenwriters really want and need to know. From finding and working with agents, to insights about story analysts and movie executives, to understanding option agreements, to providing samples for queries, synopses, treatments,...
by Abi Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
'Tiny Dynamite: An impossible love story is given a second chance and three scorched characters are about to learn that lightning does strike twice.
Splendour: Inside a beautiful state residence on the edge of a city, four women wait. They talk: films, Prada, chilli vodka, anything. Outside...
by Christopher Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Christopher Nolan's previous films have reflected the uncertainties of the twentieth-first century. With Dunkirk, Nolan has gone back into the past and brought to life one of the momentous events of the twentieth-century - the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, telling the tale by land, sea,...
by Daniel Aranda Juárez, Fernando de Felipe Allué, Pau Icart
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 15, 2009
El guion ha pasado de ser un artefacto específicamente cinematoráfico a un herramienta útil para todo tipo de formatos, géneros y soportes: las series televisivas, los spots, los clips musicales o los videojuegos. Este libro establece las bases teóricas y conceptuales de la creación y la producción...
by Mary Mercer
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
TRANSFORM YOUR FAVORITE NOVEL INTO YOUR PERSONAL WRITING COACHHave you ever run up against a story problem that made you want to beat your head against a wall, wishing for a way to correctly diagnose and treat it? Is a manuscript lying paralyzed in a desk drawer somewhere, waiting for a broken...
Creativity and Copyright
Legal Essentials for Screenwriters and Creative Artists
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
Inspired by Strunk & White's The Elements of Style, this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals. Readers will quickly understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to...
Scenarios
Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Every Man for Himself and God Against All; Land of Silence and Darkness; Fitzcarraldo
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
I do not follow ideas, I stumble into stories or into people; and I know that this is so big, I have to make a film. Very often, films come like uninvited guests, like burglars in the middle of the night. They are in your kitchen; something is stirring, you wake up at 3 a.m. and all of a sudden they...
Rewriting Secrets for Screenwriters
Seven Strategies to Improve and Sell Your Work
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Every screenwriter needs to rewrite—more than once, probably many times—to make the story work and then to make a sale. And then again later on, to please producers, studios or stars. Tom Lazarus--author of "Stigmata", among other scripts--is a working screenwriter and professor at UCLA...
Script Partners: How to Succeed at Co-Writing for Film & TV
How to Succeed at Co-Writing for Film & TV
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Some of the greatest movies and television series have been written by script partners. Script Partners, Second Edition brings together the experience, knowledge, and winning techniques of Hollywood’s most productive partnerships—including Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern...
by Andrew Tidmarsh
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
What makes tragedy tragic? What makes comedy comic? What does Much Ado About Nothing have in common with When Harry Met Sally? Seneca with Desperate Housewives? Goldoni with Frasier?
In Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen Andrew Tidmarsh explores these questions and more. Investigating...
Framer Framed
Film Scripts and Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Framer Framed brings together for the first time the scripts and detailed visuals of three of Trinh Minh-ha's provocative films: Reassemblage, Naked Spaces--Living is Round, and Surname Viet Given Name Nam.
by Matthew Williams
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
Getting a good home video is hit-or-miss. Plenty of times, they're dark and fuzzy and Aunt Myrna is washed out and Junior . . . do his eyes always look like that? This unique, accessible guide for living room and classroom provides step-by-step instructions with ten "assignments," plus ideas and information...
by rosario stefanelli
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 6, 2018
Teatro. Abel cerca di riconquistare i suoi cari annientando il passato. L’illusione di recuperare il tempo perduto e la caparbietà in un obiettivo impossibile lo spingeranno ad alzare la posta oltre ogni limite
TV Writing On Demand
Creating Great Content in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era takes a deep dive into writing for today’s audiences, against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving TV ecosystem. Amazon, Hulu and Netflix were just the beginning. The proliferation of everything digital has led to an ever-expanding array...