Screenwriting category: 401 books

Screenplay: Building Story Through Character is designed to help screenwriters turn simple or intricate ideas into exciting, multidimensional film narratives with fully-realized characters. Based on Jule Selbo’s unique 11-step structure for building story through characters, the book teaches budding...

This revised and refreshed edition guides the contemporary screenwriter through a variety of creative and critical approaches to a deeper understanding of how to tell stories for the screen. With a renewed focus on theme and structure, the book is an essential guide for writers, script developers...

The horror genre has one of the longest, most distinguished, and often misunderstood bloodlines in history. It is often overlooked by critics, Watson argues, who miss the hard-hitting commentary on society and life contained in these works.

“On Story is film school in a box, a lifetime’s worth of filmmaking knowledge squeezed into half-hour packages.”—Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles TimesAustin Film Festival (AFF) is the first organization to focus on writers’ creative contributions to film and television. Its...

In prose format this immersive tour of Fountain will help you become fluent with the simple markup syntax for writing, editing and sharing screenplays in plain, human-readable text. You won't need a cheat sheet when you first sit down to write your screenplay.You will be able to work on your screenplay anywhere, on any computer or tablet, using a bar napkin if you must.

William Faulkner at Twentieth Century-Fox: The Annotated Screenplays presents for the first time and in one volume the five screenplays Faulkner wrote while under contract to Twentieth Century-Fox in the mid 1930s and a sixth he wrote in 1952. An informative introduction describes Faulkner's screenwriting...

LEARN HOW TO WRITE DIALOGUE LIKE THE PROS Without needing to spend a small fortune on screenwriting books, take a class in dialogue writing or get mentored by Quentin Tarantino. ARE YOU STRUGGLING TO WRITE GREAT SCREENPLAY DIALOGUE? Don’t worry, we know how you feel, as learning...

"Go To Script" is a humorous follow up to Sterling Anderson's "Beyond Screenwriting". This book gives you insight to the behind scenes success and failure's of an award winning film and television writer. It covers both feature film and hour-long television structure. Sterling's take on the scene, dialogue, pitching and what he calls the small story are memorable, practical and unique.

Dating Your Character: A Sexy Guide to Screenwriting for Film and TV, is based on the principle that interesting characters actually are co-creators in the writing process. It’s organized into some of the standard stages in an evolving, romantic relationship, launched by a couple of chapters that...

Hotel Rwanda. Philadelphia.  Silkwood. Some of the most important films ever made have tackled real-world social issues, from genocide to homophobia to corporate greed. As storytellers, activist screenwriters recognize that social issues make great stories that can be gut-wrenching, heart-tugging,...

This book teaches readers how global trends define the marketplace for saleable screenplays in key international territories as well as the domestic market. Veteran writer, producer, and director Andrew Stevens gives you the insider edge you need to write for the globalmarketplace, sharing his decades...

An intimate peek into the process of writing a screenplay, from A to Z, with nothing held back. Based on actual class lectures and assignments, Finish the Script! offers an inside look into the screenwriting process as it's author writes a screenplay from scratch along with the reader. By...

The many ways that "happy after ever" can come about—case studies and analyses include Due Date, I Give it a Year, Midnight in Paris, Ted, and Tamara DreweContemporary film audiences want and need sophisticated, authentic films that show how we now live and love—so what does this mean...

John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all...