Film scripts and screenplays Books
Bloomsbury Academic The Heart of Your Script
Book SynopsisPhil Hughes is Senior Lecturer and course leader in Film & Screen at Regent's University London, UK. Alongside Ted Wilkes, he is the author of Character Is Structure: The Insider's Guide to Screenwriting (2023). He has written numerous scripts for film and television including Thunderpants (2002) and I Want Candy (2007). He has developed scripts with major producers, broadcasters and studios both in Europe and the USA. Ted Wilkes is Senior Lecturer in Screenwriting at University for the Creative Arts, UK. He is co-founder of the production company BottleRocket Film and his work has been exhibited at the Dublin Sci-Fi Film Festival, the Miami Sci-Fi Film Festival and the Southampton International Film Festival.
£61.75
Oldcastle Books Ltd Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays
Book SynopsisWhat happens when 'happy ever after' isn't quite so simple? Today's attitudes to love and romance are as varied and diverse as individuals, and audiences want and need more sophisticated, authentic films that show how we live and love now. So what does this mean for the screenwriter developing a romcom? And how do they write heart-warming stories for a genre that is constantly evolving, from bromcom to zomcom to famcom? Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays offers a fresh approach to creating narratives for this ever-changing genre. Moving away from rigid and limited definitions that have evolved out of mainstream genre films, the book embraces a working definition that crosses cultural and national boundaries to give screenwriters around the world a truly international perspective on writing comedic love stories. It will be the first screenwriting guide to reflect the diversity of approaches in today's films that deal with the human need for emotional and physical intimacy using humour - the contemporary romantic comedy. Features of the book include: Illuminating, challenging and provocative about the state of the rom-com genre. Why do some films feel so dated, while others are perennially relevant? Explores and defines all subgenres of romcom, such as zomcom, bromedy, soromcom and famcom. Uniquely draws on creativity, screenwriting genre theory and film industry practice. Stimulating creative exercises at the end of every chapter, and 'hot tips' throughout. Adaptable concepts that can be applied to both feature films and short films. Encourages screenwriters to define their own values about love to ensure their voice and message is original - and commercial. Case studies and analyses of produced screenplays, including Dostana, Due Date, I Give it a Year, I love You, Man, Midnight in Paris, Ruby Sparks, Tamara Drewe, Ted and Warm Bodies. Interviews with writers, directors and producers. Genuine international perspective. Indispensible guide for both the student and the professional writer or filmmaker.
£17.09
Oldcastle Books Ltd The Art of Screenplays - A Writer's Guide
Book SynopsisThe Art of Screenplays is a working handbook for writers with stories to tell. Addressing the key issues of creativity and craft, its aim is to connect with our natural understanding of story, to demystify the screenwriter's art, and to enable fresh, original and authentic writing. Working on the central premise that drama reflects nature, and screenplays simply echo life as we know it, the areas Mukherjee discusses include: The Writer's eye. How to gather, ferment and communicate story. The art of action. Understanding structure through observation. Who am I? Exploring the levels of characters. Vertical structure. Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Speak the speech. The art of not writing dialogue. Trade ReviewRM comes across as what he is: a screenwriter of real experience who has the confidence and knowledge of having worked extensively at the industry coal-face with a lot of really good credits in TV and feature films. Unlike many screenwriting books, he writes from a position of authority - and it shows -- Philip Shelley * Script Consultant *an insightful guide that prompts readers to think for themselves -- Dominic Carver * The Scriptwriter *'a really interesting mix of theoretical study and practical experience...Highly recommended for both beginners and experienced writers' * Write So Fluid *Brilliant and original...far and away the best writing guide I've read. It should become must reading for all of us, students and tutors alike -- Paul Bryers - award winning writer, filmmaker and producerone of the most beautifully written books about screenwriting that I've ever read * Scriptangel *
£19.79
Route Publishing Looking for Eric
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Route Publishing Jimmy's Hall
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Shoestring Press Based on a True Story: Real Made-Up Men
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UEA Publishing Project UEA MA Scriptwriting Anthology 2022
Book Synopsis2022 edition of the UEA MA Scriptwriting creative writing course anthology
£11.77
UEA Publishing Project Scriptwriting: UEA MA Anthologies 2023
Book SynopsisWe invite you to open your mind and engage your imagination, with twenty-two diverse and gripping tales written for the stage and screen. Set across the world, from London to Paris, the backroads of Eastern Europe to the post-apocalyptic highways of the United States, across forests and cliffsides, and even to Heaven itself, these varied pieces tackle subjects from desperate survival, to unrequited love, to exploring new identities. Hiking through Rendlesham Forest, Jay searches for aliens and confronts his childhood trauma in Pareidolia. Jerry struggles with the most important decision of his life... whether or not to shave his moustache, in MoustOUCHe. Two young brothers make the discovery of their lives in Mortars.
£11.77
DIS VOIR Joseph
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£17.10
Suhrkamp Verlag Das Leben der anderen
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Short Film Screenwriting
Book SynopsisAustin Bunn is Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University, USA. He is the author of The Brink: Stories and co-author of A Killer Life: How an Independent Producer Survives Deals and Disasters Far From Hollywood, one of the Hollywood Reporter Top 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time. He wrote the screenplay for Kill Your Darlings and has written scripts and pilots for Lionsgate, Participant Media, Fox2000, and Tomorrow Studios. His award-winning short films have screened nationally and internationally.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Short Film Screenwriting
Book SynopsisAustin Bunn is Associate Professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University, USA. He is the author of The Brink: Stories and co-author of A Killer Life: How an Independent Producer Survives Deals and Disasters Far From Hollywood, one of the Hollywood Reporter Top 100 Greatest Film Books of All Time. He wrote the screenplay for Kill Your Darlings and has written scripts and pilots for Lionsgate, Participant Media, Fox2000, and Tomorrow Studios. His award-winning short films have screened nationally and internationally.
£21.99
University of Illinois Press Scripting Hitchcock
Book SynopsisCreative collaborations that gave Hitchcock his finest filmsTrade ReviewNominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best Critical/Biographical, 2012. "A gracefully conceived study of the role of the scriptwriter in three key works from Hitchcock's later career. Convincingly substantiating received wisdom about Hitchcock's working methods, Raubicheck and Srebnick enhance our understanding of collaborative authorship--a topic that is important not only for the study of Hitchcock but for the field as a whole."--Richard Allen, professor of cinema studies, New York University“This wonderful, sensible study should be devoured by film students of all ages. Highly recommended."--ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface The "Triptych" and the Screenplays; The Sources; From Treatment to Shooting Script; Final Drafts: The Shooting Script Afterword
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University of Texas Press A Poetics for Screenwriters
Book SynopsisA thorough overview of all the dramatic elements of screenplays.Table of Contents Introduction I. Context II. Primary Plot Elements III. Dramatic Reality IV. Storytelling Stance and Plot Types V. Character VI. Mind in Drama VII. Spectacle and Other Elements VIII. Developing and Filming the Story Notes Screenplay Author List
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University of Texas Press On Story Screenwriters and Their Craft
Book SynopsisRenowned, award-winning screenwriters, including John Lee Hancock, Peter Hedges, Lawrence Kasdan, Whit Stillman, Robin Swicord, and Randall Wallace, discuss their craft from concept to completion in these lively conversations transcribed from the acclaimeTable of Contents Foreword by Brian Helgeland Acknowledgments Screenwriter Biographies Introduction by Barbara Morgan I. Inspiration A Conversation with Randall Wallace II. Story What Makes a Great Story: A Conversation with Bill Wittliff Steven Zaillian on Where the Story Originates Peter Hedges on Crafting Story Lawrence Kasdan on Story and Theme III. Process A Conversation with John Lee Hancock Sacha Gervasi on Getting Started The Basics with Nicholas Kazan Advice from Bill Wittliff Anne Rapp's Writing Routine Caroline Thompson’s Writing Process Lawrence Kasdan on the Challenges of Writing IV. Structure Structure and Format: A Conversation with Frank Pierson, Whit Stillman, Robin Swicord, and Nicholas Kazan Caroline Thompson on Structure Lawrence Kasdan on the Rules of Script Formatting Visual Storytelling: A Conversation with John August, John Lee Hancock, and Randall Wallace V. Character and Dialogue Building Characters and Mapping Their Journeys: A Conversation with Lawrence Kasdan and Anne Rapp Nicholas Kazan on Writing Characters Crafting Characters: A Conversation with Lawrence Kasdan Dialogue and Finding the Voice: A Conversation with John August and John Lee Hancock VI. Rewriting Writer's Block: A Conversation with Bud Shrake and Bill Wittliff Bill Wittliff on When to Let Something Go Steven Zaillian on Defining Scenes: What to Keep In, What to Leave Out Anne Rapp on Keeping the Writing Fresh Nicholas Kazan’s Rewriting Process On Rewriting: A Conversation with Daniel Petrie, Jr., Peter Hedges, and Sacha Gervasi Lawrence Kasdan on How You Know When You’re Done VII. Collaboration A Conversation with Steven Zaillian Peter Hedges on Collaborating Lawrence Kasdan on Writing with a Partner Randall Wallace on Working with Other Writers VIII. Go Forth
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University of Texas Press The Understructure of Writing for Film and
Book SynopsisThis unique, comprehensive introduction to screenwriting offers practical advice for the beginning writer, whether college student or freelancer.Trade Review"[This] book is written out of first hand experience; the words of an old pro. It sticks to practical reality without smothering the quest for creativity with arbitrary rules; the authors respect the artist as well as the craftsman. I recommend it without reservation." Frank Pierson "If any aspiring screenwriters read this book--and they all should-- I look forward to seeing a good number of well-written films." Larry Gelbart "I wish this book had been printed when I started as a writer. It would have been a tremendous help." Aaron SpellingTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part One. Getting on Your Feet 1. Your Dramatic Heritage 2. What Is a Dramatic Conflict? 3. What Is a Scene? 4. Camera Language and Format Part Two. Developing Character and Conflict 5. Introduction 6. Establishing Character and Conflict 7. Developing Character and Conflict to Crisis 8. Achieving Crisis and Climax 9. Handling Dialogue, Theme, Values, and Moral Urgency 10. Writing the Miniscreenplay 11. A Last Word Appendix: The Market Glossary of Film Terms Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc How to Adapt Anything into a Screenplay
Book SynopsisDrawing on his own experiences of adaptations and on fourteen years of teaching, the author presents his seven step process for aspiring screenwriters on how to adapt from novels and short stories to newspaper articles and poems into a screenplay.Table of ContentsForeword by Jeff Arch. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. A Short History of Adaptations. 2. Professor K.’s Five-Step Adaptation Process. 3. Legal Issues of Adaptations. 4. How Faithful Should Adaptations Be? Case Study: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. 5. Mining the Vein and Extracting the Gold. Case Study: The Shawshank Redemption. 6. Truth, Lies, and Alternative Structures. Case Study: Rashomon. 7. Compiling Characters, Cherry-Picking, and Captain Phenomenal. Case Study: The Patriot. 8. Reinterpreting and Reinventing the Storytelling Wheel. Case Study: O Brother, Where Art Thou? 9. I Know It Really Happened That Way, But . . . . Case Study: Madison. 10. Learning by Writing Across the Genres. Case Study: Glengarry Glen Ross. 11. Good, Evil, and the Eternal Combat Over Adaptations. Case Study: X-Men. 12. Smart Choices with Source Material. Case Study: Shiloh. 13. Hints from and Interviews with Hollywood Bigwigs. Bibliography. Filmography.
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University of California Press Double Indemnity
Book SynopsisAdapted from the James M Cain novel by director Wilder and novelist Raymond Chandler, this title tells the story of an insurance salesman, played by Fred MacMurray, who is lured into a murder-for-insurance plot by Barbara Stanwyck, in an archetypal femme fatale role.
£20.70
University of California Press Sunset Boulevard
Book Synopsis"Sunset Boulevard" (1950) is one of the famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. This title makes it possible to get as much pleasure from reading the highly intelligent screenplay as from seeing the film.
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University of California Press Andre Bazin on Adaptation
Book SynopsisAdaptation was central to André Bazin's lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and sociological distinctiveness of each medium. More importantly, it helped him wage his campaign for a modern conception of cinema, one that owed a great deal to developments in the novel. The critical genius of one of the greatest film and cultural critics of the twentieth century is on full display in this collection, in which readers are introduced to Bazin's foundational concepts of the relationship between film and literary adaptation.Expertly curated and with an introduction by celebrated film scholar Dudley Andrew, the book begins with a selection of essays that show Bazin's film theory in action, followed by reviews of films adapted from renowned novels of the day (Conrad, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Colette, Sagan, Duras, and others) as well as classic novels of the nineteenth century (Bronte, Melville, Tolstoy, Balzac, Hugo, Zola, Stendhal, and more). As a bonus, two hundred and fifty years of French fiction are put into play as Bazin assesses adaptation after adaptation to determine what is at stake for culture, for literature, and especially for cinema. This volume will be an indispensable resource for anyone interested in literary adaptation, authorship, classical film theory, French film history, and André Bazin's criticism.Trade Review"One must be cravenly grateful for these tasty packages of Bazin that Dudley Andrew is so thoughtfully arranging for us." * Cineaste *Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: André Bazin’s Position in Cinema’s Literary Imagination PART ONE. ADAPTATION IN THEORY 1. Preview: A Postwar Renewal of Novel and Cinema 2. André Malraux, Espoir, or Style in Cinema 3. Cinema as Digest 4. Critical Stance: Defense of Adaptation 5. Cinema and Novel 6. Literature, is it a Trap for Cinema? 7. A Question on the Baccalaureate Exam: The Film-Novel Problem 8. Lamartine, Jocelyn: Should you Scrupulously Adapt such a Poem? 9. Roger Leenhardt has Filmed a Novel he never Wrote 106 10. Alexandre Astruc’s Les Mauvaises Rencontres (Bad Liaisons): Better than a Novel 11. Colette, Le Blé en herbe: Uncertain Fidelity 12. Rereading Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black) through a Camera Lens 13. Of Novels and Films: M. Ripois with or without Nemesis 14. Stendhal’s Mina de Vanghel, Captured beyond Fidelity 15. Mina de Vanghel: More Stendhalian than Stendhal PART TWO. ADAPTING CONTEMPORARY FICTION A. Best Sellers from Abroad 16. On William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy 17. Billy Wilder, The Lost Weekend 18. Hollywood Can Translate Faulkner, Hemingway, and Caldwell 19. John Ford, How Green Was My Valley 20. John Ford, The Grapes of Wrath, from Steinbeck 21. John Ford, Tobacco Road, from Erskine Caldwell 22. Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy becomes A Place in the Sun 23. D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover 24. Has Hemingway influenced Cinema? 25. Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro 26. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms 27. Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory becomes John Ford’s The Fugitive 28. Graham Greene, Brighton Rock 29. Graham Greene and Carol Reed, The Fallen Idol 30. Graham Greene, The Heart of the Matter 31. Joseph Conrad, Outcast of the Islands, filmed by Carol Reed 32. Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Nikos Kazantzakis’ He Who Must Die are now Two Great French Films 33. Franz Kafka on Screen: Clouzot’s Les Espions (The Spies) B. Fiction from France 34. Avec André Gide, by Marc Allégret 35. The Universe of Marcel Aymé on Screen: La Belle Image 36. Colette, Le Blé en herbe: The Ripening Seed . . . has Matured 37. Marguerite Duras, Barrage contre la Pacifique, adapted by René Clément 38. Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse, adapted by Otto Preminger PART THREE: ADAPTING TO THE CLASSICS A. The Nineteenth-Century Novel from Abroad 39. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 40. Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist 41. Nikolai Gogol, The Overcoat 42. Herman Melville, Moby Dick 43. Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage 44. Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 45. Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov 46. Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, alongside Tolstoy, War and Peace B. French Classics on the French Screen 47. Abbé Prévost, Manon Lescaut, adapted by Clouzot 48. Honoré de Balzac, Eugénie Grandet 49. Stendhal, Le Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) 50. Stendhal, Le Rouge et le Noir (The Red and the Black): Tastes and Colors 51. Victor Hugo, Les Misérables 52. Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame de Paris, alongside Jules Verne, Michel Strogoff 53. Zola and Cinema: Pour une nuit d’amour (For a Night of Love) 54. Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin, adapted by Marcel Carné 55. Émile Zola’s La Bête humaine becomes Fritz Lang’s Human Desire 56. Émile Zola’s L’Assommoir becomes René Clément’s Gervaise 57. Guy de Maupassant, Une vie (A Life), adapted by Alexandre Astruc 58. Maupassant Stories adapted by Max Ophüls: Le Plaisir 59. Maupassant Stories adapted by André Michel: Trois femmes 60. French Cinema faces Literature addendum. two long essays on adaptation, translated by hugh gray 61. Journal d’un curé de campagne and the Stylistics of Robert Bresson 62. In Defense of Mixed Cinema Appendix: Chronological List of Articles Index of Films Index of Proper Names Index of Topics and Concepts
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Rutgers University Press Bringing Up Baby
Book SynopsisThe introduction of this book gives the production history of the film. It provides a biographical sketch of Hawk's career and the original story by Hagar Wilde, on which the film is based. Also included are an interview with Hawks by Joseph McBride, reviews, essays and a filmography.Table of ContentsIntroduction Bringing Up Baby Interviews, Reviews, and Commentaries Filmography and Bibliography
£28.80
Rutgers University Press Memories Of Underdevelopment
Book SynopsisMemories of Undervelopment was the first great international success of Cuban cinema. This double volume includes the complete continuity script of ""Memories"", as well as the complete novel, ""Inconsolable Memories"", upon which the film is based.Trade ReviewHere is a film that is wise, sad, and often funny... effective and moving... complete in the way very few ever are. -- Vincent CanbyTable of ContentsIntroduction - Lessons of Experience Tomas Gutierrez Alea: A Biographical Sketch Chronology Memories of Underdevelopment - Credits and cast The Continuity Script Notes on the Continuity Script Contexts - Source : Inconsolable Memories Aftermath: Politics and Cinema : Federal Agents Seize Cuban Festival Films Here Film Critics' Letter U.S. Refuses Visa to Cuban Director to get Film Award Editorial: Celluloid Menace Telegram from Tomas Gutierrez Personal Recollections of T.G. Alea : Individual Fulfillment and Collective Achievement: An Interview with Tomas Gutierrez Alea Memories of Memories Reviews and Commentaries - Reviews: New York Times The New Republic The New Yorkers Sight and Sound [London] Cinema 74 [Paris] Cinema & Film [Rome] Commentaries: A Dialectal and Partisan FilmMemories of Underdevelopment in the Land of Overdevelopment "Witnesses Almost Everywhere": The Rhetorical Strategies of Memories of Underdevelopment Filmography and Bibliography - Alea Filmography, 1950-1988 Selected Bibliography
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Rutgers University Press The Writers A History of American Screenwriters
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A monumental task—no one has ever tackled anything like this in writing about writers. Well done." -- Mel Brooks“A comprehensive tome that will be appreciated by the film and TV writers who wrote, are still writing, or will someday write.” -- Carl Reiner * Director, Writer, Actor *"A beautifully researched history. Miranda Banks digs deep into the archives to bring out a very powerful, moving--and, at times, gossipy--history of Hollywood and the writers who make it all possible." -- Matt Tyrnauer * director, "Valentino The Last Emperor" *"An original and immensely interesting book, addressing a topic of both scholarly and general interest." -- Charles Wolfe * University of California-Santa Barbara *"What an important story Miranda Banks tells, and how brilliantly she tells it. The voices of hundreds of writers shine through this history of a neglected but crucial sector of Hollywood production culture. A vital contribution to the field." -- Michele Hilmes * University of Wisconsin-Madison *"Well-informed survey of film and TV writers’ decadeslong battle to defend their economic and creative interests. Banks writes lucidly about complex financial and technical issues, giving a solid, unromantic sense of working writers’ lives." * Kirkus Reviews *"Banks uncovers the role the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has played in the entertainment industry. With accounts from more than 200 writers and solid access to the Writers Guild Foundation, the book discusses the importance of authorship, name recognition, and membership boundaries. [The Writers] presents a previously lacking exploration of writers and the WGA itself, particularly educating readers on the precedents set for other entertainment guilds. Highly recommended for film buffs and aspiring screenwriters." * Library Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Artist Employee2 Two Front Lines3 The Infant Prodigy4 Mavericks5 ConfederationConclusionAppendix A: Screen Writers and Selected CreditsAppendix B: MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Rutgers University Press The Writers A History of American Screenwriters
Book SynopsisOffers 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, The Writers delivers a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at the role and rights of writers in Hollywood and New York over the past century.Trade Review"A monumental task—no one has ever tackled anything like this in writing about writers. Well done." -- Mel Brooks“A comprehensive tome that will be appreciated by the film and TV writers who wrote, are still writing, or will someday write.” -- Carl Reiner * Director, Writer, Actor *"An original and immensely interesting book, addressing a topic of both scholarly and general interest." -- Charles Wolfe * University of California-Santa Barbara *"What an important story Miranda Banks tells, and how brilliantly she tells it. The voices of hundreds of writers shine through this history of a neglected but crucial sector of Hollywood production culture. A vital contribution to the field." -- Michele Hilmes * University of Wisconsin-Madison *"A beautifully researched history. Miranda Banks digs deep into the archives to bring out a very powerful, moving--and, at times, gossipy--history of Hollywood and the writers who make it all possible." -- Matt Tyrnauer * director, "Valentino The Last Emperor" *"Well-informed survey of film and TV writers’ decadeslong battle to defend their economic and creative interests. Banks writes lucidly about complex financial and technical issues, giving a solid, unromantic sense of working writers’ lives." * Kirkus Reviews *"Banks uncovers the role the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has played in the entertainment industry. With accounts from more than 200 writers and solid access to the Writers Guild Foundation, the book discusses the importance of authorship, name recognition, and membership boundaries. [The Writers] presents a previously lacking exploration of writers and the WGA itself, particularly educating readers on the precedents set for other entertainment guilds. Highly recommended for film buffs and aspiring screenwriters." * Library Journal *"[The Writers] is an important contribution to Hollywood history, to studies of the labour movement in the United States, and to explorations of cultural labour. It is an entertaining and compelling story of what is special about artists as workers and what is common to all workers faced with the volatile labour relations of modern neoliberal capitalism." * Labour/Le Travail *"A monumental task—no one has ever tackled anything like this in writing about writers. Well done." -- Mel Brooks“A comprehensive tome that will be appreciated by the film and TV writers who wrote, are still writing, or will someday write.” -- Carl Reiner * Director, Writer, Actor *"An original and immensely interesting book, addressing a topic of both scholarly and general interest." -- Charles Wolfe * University of California-Santa Barbara *"What an important story Miranda Banks tells, and how brilliantly she tells it. The voices of hundreds of writers shine through this history of a neglected but crucial sector of Hollywood production culture. A vital contribution to the field." -- Michele Hilmes * University of Wisconsin-Madison *"A beautifully researched history. Miranda Banks digs deep into the archives to bring out a very powerful, moving--and, at times, gossipy--history of Hollywood and the writers who make it all possible." -- Matt Tyrnauer * director, "Valentino The Last Emperor" *"Well-informed survey of film and TV writers’ decadeslong battle to defend their economic and creative interests. Banks writes lucidly about complex financial and technical issues, giving a solid, unromantic sense of working writers’ lives." * Kirkus Reviews *"Banks uncovers the role the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has played in the entertainment industry. With accounts from more than 200 writers and solid access to the Writers Guild Foundation, the book discusses the importance of authorship, name recognition, and membership boundaries. [The Writers] presents a previously lacking exploration of writers and the WGA itself, particularly educating readers on the precedents set for other entertainment guilds. Highly recommended for film buffs and aspiring screenwriters." * Library Journal *"[The Writers] is an important contribution to Hollywood history, to studies of the labour movement in the United States, and to explorations of cultural labour. It is an entertaining and compelling story of what is special about artists as workers and what is common to all workers faced with the volatile labour relations of modern neoliberal capitalism." * Labour/Le Travail *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Artist Employee 2 Two Front Lines 3 The Infant Prodigy 4 Mavericks 5 Confederation Conclusion Appendix A: Screen Writers and Selected CreditsAppendix B: MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex
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Seagull Books London Ltd Banker for All Seasons
Book SynopsisDuring the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank...the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International).BCCI soon become a global corporate empire with former US Presidents, ex-British Prime Ministers and a range of dictators on its payroll, all helping with promoting the company. Tariq Ali was the first public voice to warn that the Bank was not all it seemed to be. Indeed, many of its own employees called BCCI the Bank of Crooks and Cheats Incorporated. Some political analysts also predicted the companys collapse. The Bank finally imploded amidst a welter of scandal. This revealing screenplay presents an account of the rise and fall of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Here, Ali reveals how BCCI lasted so long, how financial regulators failed to see what was going on and how BCCI pioneered a mode of operation that prepar
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John Libbey & Co Screening the Stage
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£25.19
The University of North Carolina Press Sixteen Weeks to Fade Out
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive guide to writing the first draft of a feature length screenplay. The text breaks down different approaches to designing a screenplay by providing pragmatic guidelines enhancing your ability to use creativity rather than focusing on rules.
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University of Minnesota Press Scenarios II: Signs of Life; Even Dwarfs Started
Book SynopsisThe second in a series: the master filmmaker’s prose scenarios for four of his notable filmsOn the first day of editing Fata Morgana, Werner Herzog recalls, his editor said: “With this kind of material we have to pretend to invent cinema.” And this, Herzog says, is what he tries to do every day. In this second volume of his scenarios, the peerless filmmaker’s genius for invention is on clear display. Written in Herzog’s signature fashion—more prose poem than screenplay, transcribing the vision unfolding before him as if in a dream—the four scenarios here (three never before translated into English) reveal an iconoclastic craftsman at the height of his powers.Along with his template for the film poem Fata Morgana (1971), this volume includes the scenarios for Herzog’s first two feature films, Signs of Life (1968) and Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970), along with the hypnotic Heart of Glass (1976). In a brief introduction, Herzog describes the circumstances surrounding each scenario, inviting readers into the mysterious process whereby one man’s vision becomes every viewer’s waking dream.Trade Review"Enigmatic and imaginative, Herzog creates an unfamiliar world in each screenplay through his evocative prose."—Publishers Weekly "This follow-up to the previous collection, Scenarios, will please Herzog’s fans and intrepid readers of short fiction." —Library JournalTable of ContentsSigns of Life Even Dwarfs Started SmallFata MorganaHeart of Glass
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University of Minnesota Press Scenarios III: Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of
Book SynopsisFor the first time in English, and in his signature prose poetry, the film scripts of four of Werner Herzog’s early works “Herzog doesn’t write traditional scripts,” Film International remarked of the master filmmaker’s Scenarios I and II. “Instead, he writes scenarios which are like a hybrid of film, fiction, and prose poetry.”Continuing a series that Publishers Weekly pronounced “compulsively readable . . . equal parts challenging and satisfying, infuriating and enlightening,” Scenarios III presents, for the first time in English, the shape-shifting scripts for four of Werner Herzog’s early films: Stroszek; Nosferatu, Phantom of the Night; Where the Green Ants Dream; and Cobra Verde. We can observe Herzog’s working vision as each of these scenarios unfolds in a form often dramatically different from the film’s final version—as, in his own words, Herzog works himself up into “this kind of frenzy of high-caliber language and concepts and beauty.”With Scenarios I and II, this volume completes the picture of Herzog’s earliest work, affording a view of the filmmaker mastering his craft, well on his way to becoming one of the most original, and most celebrated, artists in his field.
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New Village Press Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside
Book SynopsisSeminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia’s Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater’s first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays’ social, economic, and political circumstances; and a critical recounting of the theater’s history from 1975 through 2020. The plays in Volume 1 offer a people’s history of the Appalachian coalfields, from the European incursion through the American War in Vietnam.Trade ReviewArt in a Democracy overflows like water from a well, chronicling a rural working-class theater’s 45-years of crisscrossing the country bridging bitter partisan, racial, and other divisions by dramatizing the tremendous local intelligence and creativity inherent in every community. This collection of plays and commentary represents the cutting edge of a new democratic art. -- Harry Boyte, Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy, Institute for Public Life and WorkRoadside Theater has mustered diverse local folks in declining towns in Appalachia to celebrate their traditions and restore community confidence through dramatization of local stories and music. -- Robert Putnam, author, Bowling AloneThese two volumes are an indispensable gift to our field. These plays, and the insightful essays that accompany them, offer a roadmap to hope, joy, and inspiration. -- Bill Rauch, founding artistic director of the Perelman Performing Arts CenterThe impact on Urban Bush Women from our work with Roadside Theater over two decades cannot be overstated. Art in a Democracy unveils the way we can build strong bonds through working, living, and creating art with communities while addressing social inequities. The history embedded in these volumes is priceless. -- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founding Artistic Director, Urban Bush Women; 2021 MacArthur Award Fellow; 2022 Gish Prize recipient
£20.69
New Village Press Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside
Book SynopsisSeminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia’s Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater’s first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays’ social, economic, and political circumstances; and a critical recounting of the theater’s history from 1975 through 2020. The plays in Volume 1 offer a people’s history of the Appalachian coalfields, from the European incursion through the American War in Vietnam.Trade ReviewArt in a Democracy overflows like water from a well, chronicling a rural working-class theater’s 45-years of crisscrossing the country bridging bitter partisan, racial, and other divisions by dramatizing the tremendous local intelligence and creativity inherent in every community. This collection of plays and commentary represents the cutting edge of a new democratic art. -- Harry Boyte, Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy, Institute for Public Life and WorkRoadside Theater has mustered diverse local folks in declining towns in Appalachia to celebrate their traditions and restore community confidence through dramatization of local stories and music. -- Robert Putnam, author, Bowling AloneThese two volumes are an indispensable gift to our field. These plays, and the insightful essays that accompany them, offer a roadmap to hope, joy, and inspiration. -- Bill Rauch, founding artistic director of the Perelman Performing Arts CenterThe impact on Urban Bush Women from our work with Roadside Theater over two decades cannot be overstated. Art in a Democracy unveils the way we can build strong bonds through working, living, and creating art with communities while addressing social inequities. The history embedded in these volumes is priceless. -- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founding Artistic Director, Urban Bush Women; 2021 MacArthur Award Fellow; 2022 Gish Prize recipient
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New Village Press Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside
Book SynopsisCollaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside’s intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as well as with residents on both sides of the walls of recently-built prisons. Roadside has spent 45 years searching for what art in a democracy might look like. The anthology raises questions such as, What are common principles and common barriers to achieving democracy across disciplines, and how can the disciplines unite in common democratic cause?Trade ReviewArt in a Democracy overflows like water from a well, chronicling a rural working-class theater’s 45-years of crisscrossing the country bridging bitter partisan, racial, and other divisions by dramatizing the tremendous local intelligence and creativity inherent in every community. This collection of plays and commentary represents the cutting edge of a new democratic art. -- Harry Boyte, Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy, Institute for Public Life and WorkRoadside Theater has mustered diverse local folks in declining towns in Appalachia to celebrate their traditions and restore community confidence through dramatization of local stories and music. -- Robert Putnam, author, Bowling AloneThese two volumes are an indispensable gift to our field. These plays, and the insightful essays that accompany them, offer a roadmap to hope, joy, and inspiration. -- Bill Rauch, founding artistic director of the Perelman Performing Arts CenterThe impact on Urban Bush Women from our work with Roadside Theater over two decades cannot be overstated. Art in a Democracy unveils the way we can build strong bonds through working, living, and creating art with communities while addressing social inequities. The history embedded in these volumes is priceless. -- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founding Artistic Director, Urban Bush Women; 2021 MacArthur Award Fellow; 2022 Gish Prize recipient
£20.69
New Village Press Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside
Book SynopsisCollaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside’s intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as well as with residents on both sides of the walls of recently-built prisons. Roadside has spent 45 years searching for what art in a democracy might look like. The anthology raises questions such as, What are common principles and common barriers to achieving democracy across disciplines, and how can the disciplines unite in common democratic cause?Trade ReviewArt in a Democracy overflows like water from a well, chronicling a rural working-class theater’s 45-years of crisscrossing the country bridging bitter partisan, racial, and other divisions by dramatizing the tremendous local intelligence and creativity inherent in every community. This collection of plays and commentary represents the cutting edge of a new democratic art. -- Harry Boyte, Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy, Institute for Public Life and WorkRoadside Theater has mustered diverse local folks in declining towns in Appalachia to celebrate their traditions and restore community confidence through dramatization of local stories and music. -- Robert Putnam, author, Bowling AloneThese two volumes are an indispensable gift to our field. These plays, and the insightful essays that accompany them, offer a roadmap to hope, joy, and inspiration. -- Bill Rauch, founding artistic director of the Perelman Performing Arts CenterThe impact on Urban Bush Women from our work with Roadside Theater over two decades cannot be overstated. Art in a Democracy unveils the way we can build strong bonds through working, living, and creating art with communities while addressing social inequities. The history embedded in these volumes is priceless. -- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founding Artistic Director, Urban Bush Women; 2021 MacArthur Award Fellow; 2022 Gish Prize recipient
£64.00
New Village Press Art in a Democracy: Selected Plays of Roadside
Book SynopsisThis two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater’s first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays’ social, economic, and political circumstances; and a critical recounting of the theater’s history from 1975 through 2020. The plays in Volume 1 offer a people’s history of the Appalachian coalfields, from the European incursion through the American War in Vietnam. The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside’s intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as well as with residents on both sides of the walls of recently-built prisons. Roadside has spent 45 years searching for what art in a democracy might look like. The anthology raises questions such as, What are common principles and common barriers to achieving democracy across disciplines, and how can the disciplines unite in common democratic cause?Trade Review"Art in a Democracy overflows like water from a well, chronicling a rural working-class theater’s 45-years of crisscrossing the country bridging bitter partisan, racial, and other divisions by dramatizing the tremendous local intelligence and creativity inherent in every community. This collection of plays and commentary represents the cutting edge of a new democratic art." -- Harry Boyte, Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy, Institute for Public Life and Work"Roadside Theater has mustered diverse local folks in declining towns in Appalachia to celebrate their traditions and restore community confidence through dramatization of local stories and music." -- Robert Putnam, author, Bowling Alone"These two volumes are an indispensable gift to our field. These plays, and the insightful essays that accompany them, offer a roadmap to hope, joy, and inspiration." -- Bill Rauch, founding artistic director of the Perelman Performing Arts Center"The impact on Urban Bush Women from our work with Roadside Theater over two decades cannot be overstated. Art in a Democracy unveils the way we can build strong bonds through working, living, and creating art with communities while addressing social inequities. The history embedded in these volumes is priceless." -- Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founding Artistic Director, Urban Bush Women; 2021 MacArthur Award Fellow; 2022 Gish Prize recipient
£36.00
Texas Review Press Five Conversations About Peter Sellers: Hybrid
Book SynopsisFive Conversations About Peter Sellers is an essay that begins as an exploration of the author’s burgeoning obsession with Peter Sellers, and specifically his role in hijacking and derailing production of the spy spoof, Casino Royale, in the late 60s. But what begins as a reported piece on how the film set erupted into chaos, quickly devolves into its own chaos as the essay splits into 5 different narrators, each with their own idea of what the essay is actually about. Is it about how Peter Sellers and his oversize ego ruined Casino Royale? Is it about how society has too long allowed horrible men to run the world? Is it an exploration of the nature of the essay as a creative form? Or is Peter Sellers and his genius at impersonation actually a vehicle through which the author probes her own shifting identity as a bi-ethnic person? The answer is...yes. From Five Conversations About Peter SellersBeth: There’s a passage in Notes from Underground where the narrator speaks about the perverse pleasure of knowing your own vileness. ‘This pleasure comes precisely from the sharpest awareness of your own degradation; from the knowledge that you have gone to the utmost limit; that it is despicable, yet can’t be otherwise, that you no longer have any way out, that you will never become a different man.’ Build all the utopias you want, but some people can only know they’re alive when they’ve destroyed everything beautiful around them.
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Palgrave Macmillan Screenwriting the Modern Biopic
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Prologue.- Chapter 2: Screenwriting the Contemporary Biopic: an introduction.- Chapter 3: 'Writing to right'? How does the screenwriter reconcile ethical tensions between fact and fiction in the authorship of a biopic.- Chapter 4: Sensing the Dead: exploring the tensions between fiction and historical fidelity.- Chapter 5: Screenwriting the past: re-framing the conversation.- Chapter 6: Coda: some concluding texts.
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