Film scripts and screenplays Books
Faber & Faber Oppenheimer
Book SynopsisIn OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan has fashioned a story of discovery bathed in the light of a thousand suns - but one that is darkened by govrrnment surveillance and the travesty of a trial to which Oppenheimer was subjected.
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Hodder & Stoughton Fleabag: The Scriptures: The Sunday Times
Book SynopsisThe complete Fleabag. Every Word. Every Side-eye. Every Fox.Fleabag: The Scriptures includes the filming scripts and the never-before-seen stage directions from the Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA winning series.'Perfect' Guardian'Perfect' Daily Telegraph'Perfect' Stylist'Perfect' Independent'Perfect' Evening Standard'Perfect' Metro'Perfect' Irish Times'Perfect' RTE'Perfect' Spectator'Perfect' Refinery29'Perfect' Catholic Herald'Perfection' Financial Times***HAIRDRESSERNO.(pointing to Claire)That is EXACTLY what she asked for.FLEABAGNo it's not. We want compensation.HAIRDRESSERClaire?CLAIREI've got two important meetings and I look like a pencil.HAIRDRESSERNO. Don't blame me for your bad choices. Hair isn't everything.FLEABAGWow.HAIRDRESSERWhat?FLEABAGHair. Is. Everything. We wish it wasn't so we could actually think about something else occasionally. But it is. It's the difference between a good day and a bad day. We're meant to think that it is a symbol of power, a symbol of fertility, some people are exploited for it and it pays your fucking bills. Hair is everything, Anthony.Trade ReviewOh, Fleabag. The hot priest. The pencil haircut. The closing scene. I don't think there has ever been a show that dominated the pop culture conversation and captured the nation's hearts quite like Fleabag. When it was confirmed that the second season would be the final one, a collective mourning was palpable on Twitter and in offices alike. Fortunately, creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge keeps giving us a little more...And now we have a book to clutch: Fleabag: The Scriptures is filled with the filming scripts, stage directions and new writing from PWB herself. It's a sacred text, if ever there was one. * Red Magazine *Featuring an insight into the show's delightfully funny stage directions and a number of previously unheard set secrets, this collection of scripts and behind-the-scenes notes from Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a must read for fans * The I *There's a good reason television screenplays aren't often sold as mainstream books - "Man enters room, looks around" isn't necessarily soul-capturing stuff. But it's worth making an exception for Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag: The Scriptures, naughtily bound to look like an old Bible. The show confirmed her skills as a comic actress, but seeing the words in black and white crystallises her brilliance as a writer who can so expertly build the comedy of a scene to bursting point. It's often very moving, too * Evening Standard *It was with scepticism that I picked up this volume . . . Then I read it. Bliss. The scripts are written with such precise technical skill that it is a pleasure and an education to see their workings . . . It's a fun exercise to overlap in your mind the sound, the rhythm of the edit and the performances as you read these scripts, highly controlled though they are . . . Occasionally mumblings can be deciphered, script in hand, and ad-libs that aren't in the script identified. A good study of the moments of genius . . . Perhaps Fleabag is best left to speak for itself. Scripts as Scriptures. Amen * Spectator *
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A24 Films LLC The Lobster Screenplay Book
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£47.50
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Beowulf
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£21.21
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Writing Screenplays That Sell New Twentieth
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£17.59
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Downton Abbey Season One
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£20.79
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Downton Abbey Script Book Season 3
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£17.24
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Gardeners Son
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£13.49
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Writing The Romantic Comedy 20th Anniversary
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Moving well beyond generic pronouncements and ‘rules’, Billy Mernit’s specific, well-tested exercises guide writers to create real, personal, credible characters and plots that speak to the romantic in all of us.” — Linda Venis, Director, UCLA Extension Writers' Program Mernit’s screenwriting knowledge shines through this highly readable volume. This is no “formula” book but an essential guide to finding your own voice. — Denver Rocky Mountain News “Insightful, thorough, and easy to use, this step-by-step guide expertly balances the craft and the art of writing the romantic comedy. Billy Mernit really knows his stuff, and after reading this book, you will too.” — Stephen Mazur, co-writer of Liar, Liar and The Little Rascals “Writing the Romantic Comedy is so much fun to read it could pop a champagne cork.” — Alexa Junge, writer/producer of Friends
£11.69
HarperCollins Publishers Inc How to Write a Movie in 21 Days Revised Edition
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Penguin Books Ltd Blackadder The Whole Damn Dynasty
Book SynopsisThe complete Blackadder scripts by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, Rowan Atkinson and John Lloyd.Twenty-six years ago, Edmund Blackadder made his first appearance on our screens. Comedy has never been the same since (nor indeed has history). Gathered here - in this twenty-sixth anniversary commemorative edition - are the complete scripts of Blackadder''s adventures and, mostly, misadventures. Blackadder, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third and Blackadder Goes Forth. Every word, every lie, every cunning plan and cock-up.From medieval nastiness, through Elizabethan and Regency glory, to the mud and sautéed rats of the First World War, Blackadder and his oafish underling Baldrick can be most definitely blamed for ruining England''s reputation as a country with a great history.This historical record has been set down by Mr Richard Curtis, Mr Ben Elton, Mr Rowan Atkinson and Mr John Lloyd.Richard Curtis is the writ
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Penguin Books Ltd Zapata
Book SynopsisA new volume which includes the original screenplay, with its copious director''s notes, and the narrative - this has followed on from a previously undiscovered manuscript by Steinbeck being found in the UCLA Research Library - the narrative treatment of the story on which he based his screenplay.
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Oxford University Press Inc They Made Us Happy Betty Comden Adolph Greens
Book SynopsisThey Made Us Happy is the first book to tell the full story of the extraordinary careers and lives of two of Broadway's and Hollywood's most gifted writing teams: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, encompassing triumphant musical successes (On the Town, Wonderful Town) and much-loved movies (Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon).Trade ReviewPropst has clearly done his research, as evidenced by the lengthy listing of source materials at the end of the book. A particularly nice touch is his tendency to reference the sometimes different recollections of people involved in a specific incident, and then offer a theory of which account actually seems more plausible and why....the book offers very informative and entertaining read for both the serious musical (and musical theater) aficionado and one with only a passing familiarity with some of the duo's more famous works. * Judd Hollander, The Epoch Times *The book dashes through Comden and Green's glory years writing for stage and screen. High-profile projects such as "The Band Wagon" or "Peter Pan" - as well as lesser-known efforts, such as the "On the Town" successor "It's Always Fair Weather" - are given comparable attention. Chapters are broken up with paragraph-long nuggets consisting of background information or anecdotes. Best of all is the chapter on "Singin' in the Rain." Said Comden about starting work on the movie: "All we knew was, that at some point in the film, someone would be out in the rain and singing about it."As this marvelous book reminds us, that's where Comden and Green came in. * Peter Tonguette, The Columbus Dispatch *One of the strengths of Mr. Propst's book is his encyclopedic knowledge of virtually every move and shuffle, every last minute addition to and subtraction from shows and films... Mr. Propst tells us everything about how a show reached its final form, and in some cases its revivals.... One appreciates this book as a compendious reference work; its value lies in the theatrical history it provides.... Although [Comden and Green] now may be grist for the nostalgia mills, this book... shows how snappy, daring and brave they were. And what fun they had. * Willard Spiegelman, Wall Street Journal *What a lovingly researched journey through the duo-careers of two of our most talented wordsmiths. What good times they provided for us! Carefree, urbane, intelligent, tender hearted, playful - indeed they were 'a party of two.' * Tommy Tune *Andy Propst has done it again! His They Made Us Happy is a love letter to anyone who loves musical theatre, its history, and two of its greatest titans - Betty Comden and Adolph Green. He pulls back the curtain on the life and career of this once-in-a-generation pair of talents with humor, elegance, and grace. I read it in one sitting with Comden and Green's On the Town, Wonderful Town, Singin' in the Rain, Hallelujah Baby!, On the Twentieth Century, and The Will Rodgers Follies playing on my record player. Rest assured - if you don't have a record player, Andy's masterpiece is musical enough. * Will Nunziata, Director *Thank you, Andy Propst, for the memories and for the history and revelations about these two remarkable artists and their time. They Made Us Happy made me so happy! * Penny Fuller, Actor *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1 - Childhood Dreams Chapter 2 - The Revuers Emerge, Soar, and Coast Chapter 3 - Taking the Town Chapter 4 - Turning to the 1920s Chapter 5 - Theatrical Disaster... Cinematic Success Chapter 6 - Broadway to Hollywood and Back Again Chapter 7 - Turning Back the Clock Chapter 8 - Theatrical Adventures On Screen and On and Off Stage Chapter 9 - Serious Screen Fare, but Flying High on Stage Chapter 10 - Hollywood Passes, Broadway Says 'Yes' Chapter 11 - Throwing a Stage Party and a Cinematic Revel Chapter 12 - A Movie, Some TV EL and Jukeboxes Chapter 13 - Writing a Darker Musical Fairy Tale Chapter 14 - Stage and Screen Confections ... and Something a Little Deeper Chapter 15 - Part of the Times, Personally and Professionally Chapter 16 - Going Backstage, Then Getting Nostalgic [ Chapter 17 - Returning (Artistically) to the 1930s Chapter 18 - Ten Years of Performing and Writing Chapter 19 - A Follies Finish and Farewell Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press A Thousand Screenplays The French Imagination in
Book SynopsisIn 1991, French public television held an amateur screenwriting contest. Although the contestants wrote about life in France, their concerns and struggles held a distinctly universal ring. Sabine Chalvon-Demersay offers a clear, if still developing, photograph of the contemporary imagination.
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MO - 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
£91.00
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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Indiana University Press English Filming English Writing
Book SynopsisExamines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the 20th century. This book traces themes such as the influence of US crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in screen work from the 1930s. It also analyzes the documentary "Listen to Britain".Trade Review. . . ambitious and expansive . . . . -- Lucy Scholes * TLS - Times Literary Supplement *A substantive, seductive, charming piece of work, this book is a paradigm of good sense and clarity—neither pedantic nor trendy. . . . Highly recommended. November 2010 * Choice *I recommend this book to those who take pleasure in cinema; I prescribe it to those who need to learn how to write about the aesthetics of cinema, not the ideology of culture.Issue 30 - 2011 * Screening the Past *Table of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: By Way of Hanif Kureishi and Stephen Frears1. Wartime Pageantry The Archers on Pilgrimage Screen Processions and Village Pageants The Documentary Pageant: Jennings's Listen to Britain2. American Gangsters, English Crime Films, and Dennis Potter George Orwell versus James Hadley Chase Contending with America In Search of an English Crime Film The Singing Detective as Summa Criminologica3. Two Texts to Screen How to Adapt Dickens, and How Not to Do It Ishiguro and Merchant-Ivory, Upstairs and Downstairs4. The Strange Potencies of Music Rawsthorne and Rachmaninoff Rolling Out the Barrel, Looking Up and Laughing Distant Voices and Lip-Synched LivesConclusion: By Way of Tony Harrison and Alan BennettNotesIndex
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University of Texas Press Principles of Adaptation for Film and Television
Book SynopsisIn this practical, hands-on guide, veteran TV and screenwriter Ben Brady unlocks the secrets of the adaptation process, showing aspiring writers and writing teachers how to turn any kind of narrative material into workable, salable screenplays for film anTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Part 1. Principles of Adaptation for Film and Television 1. Introduction 2. The Transition 3. Plot 4. The Premise 5. Character 6. The Nature of a Treatment 7. The Treatment 8. Dialogue 9. Camera Language and Screenplay Format Part 2. The Screenplay Claire Serrat Part 3. Questioning Your Adaptation Glossary of Film Terms Index
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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
£19.79
Little Brown and Company Inglourious Basterds
Book SynopsisFrom the most original and beloved screenwriter of his generation, the complete Oscar-nominated screenplay of Quentin Tarantino''s World War II epic Inglorious Basterds. From the brilliant writer/director behind the iconic films Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, comes Tarantino''s most ambitious movie: a World War II epic starring Brad Pitt and filmed on location in Germany and France. The action tale follows the parallel story of a guerrilla-like squad of American soldiers called The Basterds and the French Jewish teenage girl Shosanna who find themselves behind enemy Nazi lines during the German occupation. When the Inglourious Basterds encounter Shosanna at a propaganda screening at the movie house she runs, they conspire to launch an unexpected plot to end the war. Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine -- the leader of the Basterds. Raine is an illiterate hillbilly from the mountains of Tennessee who puts together a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to hunt down the Nazis. Filled with Tarantino''s trademark electric dialogue and thrilling action sequences, Inglourious Basterds is one of the most celebrated films of the twenty-first century.
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Random House USA Inc The Counselor Movie Tiein Edition
Book SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—in this screenplay of the major motion picture, the Counselor makes a risky entrée into the drug trade, on the eve of becoming a married man, and gambles that the consequences won’t catch up to him. Along the gritty terrain of the Texas–Mexico border, a respected and recently engaged lawyer throws his stakes into a cocaine trade worth millions. His hope is that it will be a one-time deal and that, afterward, he can settle into life with his beloved fiancée. But instead, the Counselor finds himself mired in a brutal and dangerous game—one that threatens to destroy everything and everyone he loves. Deft, shocking, and unforgettable, McCarthy is at his finest in this gripping tale about risk, consequence, and the treacherous balance between the two.Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bes
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Writing Women for Film Television
Book SynopsisThis book is a detailed guide to creating complex female characters for film and television. Written for screen storytellers of any level, this book will help screenwriters and filmmakers recognize complicated portrayals of women on screen and evaluate the complexity of their own characters.Author Anna Weinstein provides a thorough analysis of key female characters in film and television, illustrating how some of our greatest screenwriters have developed smart, nuanced, and intriguing characters that successfully portray the female experience. The book features in-depth discussions of women's representation both on screen and behind the scenes, including interviews with acclaimed women screenwriters and directors from around the globe. These conversations detail their perspectives on the relevance of women's screen stories, the writing and development processes of these stories, and the challenges in getting female characters to the screen. With practical suggestions, exercisTrade Review“This book has been needed for such a long time – what a pleasure now that it exists to find it’s so much better than we had any right to expect. Warm, wise, and generous, Weinstein is the screenwriting teacher we all wish we had.” –William Rabkin, author of Writing the Pilot Table of Contents1. She Is on Screen: Women’s Representation in Film & Television 2. She Comes of Age: Young Women 3. She Falls in Love: Smitten Women 4. She Climbs the Ladder: Working Women 5. She Cares for the Family: Nurturing Women 6. She Doesn’t Play by the Rules: "Mad" Women 7. She Sparks Change: Trailblazing Women 8. She Is Seen: Developing "Reel" Women
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Random House USA Inc Getting Even
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£11.86
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Screenplay Persuasion Methuen Screenplays By Jane Austen Screen and Cinema
Book SynopsisA screenplay by Nick Dear, this text is an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Persuasion". It is the story of Anne Elliot who is engaged to a naval officer but is persuaded to abandon thoughts of marriage to him on the grounds of his dubious financial prospects.
£18.63
Methuen Publishing Ltd Monty Pythons Life of Brian The of Nazareth
Book SynopsisWhen The Life of Brian was first released in 1979 it was hailed by most as Monty Python's finest parody and denounced by a few as the most blasphemous film of all time. But, with its unforgettable songs and its infinitely quotable script it has gone on to become an enduring cult classic.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Talented Mr Ripley A Screenplay
Book SynopsisAnthony Minghella is a dramatist and director whose best known plays have been published in two volu mes by Methuen. His films include TRULY, MADLY, DEEP and THE ENGLISH PATIENT. Patricia Highsmith wr ote a number of volumes about Tom Ripley; THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY is the first and best known novel i n this series. Anthony Minghella lives in London.
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Methuen Publishing Ltd Complete Fawlty Towers Methuen Humour
Book SynopsisWhat did Basil Fawlty fail to avoid mentioning? Why did Sybil keep snagging her cardies? Where was Polly on the night of the Great Wedding Anniversary disaster? This book presents the scripts for the show's classic episodes.
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Methuen Publishing Ltd Monty Pythons the Meaning of Life
Book SynopsisOctober 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus on BBC Television. This book contains the full script with pictures of the last Monty Python film.
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Methuen Publishing Ltd Action
Book SynopsisAction - The art of excitement for screen, page and game.Trade ReviewACTION inspires action. McKee and El-Wakil have created the guide I've been looking for all my years as a professional screenwriter. ACTION helps you understand how and why the thing works - how its heart beats, how it thinks, and most important, what makes it move. For a professional action writer it almost feels like cheating. ZAK PENN, American screenwriter and director; 'Robert McKee's books offer lucid analysis, perceptive insights and fruitful challenges to those of us who practice the magical arts of storytelling. I highly recommend his latest, ACTION. Buy it, read it, put it to work.' MICHAEL HIRST, creator, screenwriter, series producer of Vikings and Billy the Kid
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Analysing the Screenplay
Book SynopsisMost producers and directors acknowledge the crucial role of the screenplay, yet the film script has received little academic attention until recently, even though the screenplay has been in existence since the end of the 19th century. Analysing the Screenplay highlights the screenplay as an important form in itself, as opposed to merely being the first stage of the production process. It explores a number of possible approaches to studying the screenplay, considering the depth and breadth of the subject area, including: the history and early development of the screenplay in the United States, France and Britain the process of screenplay writing and its peculiar relationship to film production the assumption that the screenplay is standardised in form and certain stories or styles are universal the range of writing outside the mainstream, from independent film to story ideas in BhutanTable of Contents@contents: Selected Contents: List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Permissions Chapter 1. Introduction Jill Nelmes Part I: History of the form Chapter 2. Entertaining the Public Option: The Popular Film Writing Movement and the Emergence of Writing for the American Silent Cinema Torey Liepa Chapter 3. Screenwriters who Shaped the PreCode Woman and their Struggle with Censorship Jule Selbo Chapter 4. Screenwriting in Britain 1895-1929 Ian Macdonald Part II: Development, Craft and Process Chapter 5. An Impossible Task? Scripting 'The Chilian Club' Andrew Spicer Chapter 6. Boards, Beats, Binaries and Bricolage – Approaches to the Animation Script Paul Wells Chapter 7. The Flexibility of Genre: The Action-Adventure Film in 1939 Ken Dancyger Part III: Alternatives to the conventional screenplay form Chapter 8. "Let the audience add 2 + 2 and they’ll love you forever": The screenplay as a self-teaching system Adam Ganz Chapter 9. The Screenplay as Prototype Kathryn Millard Chapter 10. A similar sense of time: the collaboration between writer Jon Raymond and director Kelly Reichardt in Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy JJ Murphy Chapter 11. On Screenwriting Outside the West Sue Clayton Part IV: Theoretical and Critical Approaches Chapter 12. Character in the Screenplay Text Steven Price Chapter 13. Realism and Screenplay Dialogue Jill Nelmes Chapter 14. Analysing the Screenplay: A Comparative Approach Mark O’Thomas Chapter 15. Beyond McKee: Screenwriting In and Out of the Academy Barry Langford Index
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Random House Publishing Group Four Screenplays
Book SynopsisYes, you can write a great screenplay. Let Syd Field show you how.“I based Like Water for Chocolate on what I learned in Syd's books. Before, I always felt structure imprisoned me, but what I learned was structure really freed me to focus on the story.”—Laura EsquivelTechnology is transforming the art and craft of screenwriting. How does the writer find new ways to tell a story with pictures, to create a truly outstanding film? Syd Field shows what works, why, and how in four extraordinary films: Thelma & Louise, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances with Wolves.Learn how:Callie Khouri, in her first movie script, Thelma & Louise, rewrote the rules for good road movies and played against type to create a new American classic.James Cameron, writer/director of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, created a sequ
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Little, Brown & Company Adventures in the Screen Trade
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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 Off the Page
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Bernardi and Hoxter ... provide a scholarly exploration of the processes, complexities, and possibilities of the motion picture industry and the para-industries consuming the screenwriter's product." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION: SCREENWRITING OFF THE PAGE 1. MILLENNIAL MANIC: CRISIS AND CHANGE IN THE BUSINESS OF SCREENWRITING 2. ATOP THE TENTPOLE: HOLLYWOOD SCREENWRITING TODAY 3. RUNNING THE ROOM: SHOWRUNNING IN EXPANDED TELEVISION 4. NEW MARKETS AND MICROBUDGETS: “INDEPENDENT” STORYTELLERS 5. SCREENWRITER 2.0: THE LEGITIMATION OF WRITING FOR VIDEO GAMES CONCLUSION: SCRIPTING BOUNDARIES NOTES INDEX
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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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Faber & Faber Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Book SynopsisThrough a stony and inhospitable landscape ride a pair of attendant lords, cloaked and hatted against the cold. In this screenplay Stoppard recreates, in cinematic terms, his play about two minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
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Faber & Faber Goodfellas Based on the Book Wiseguy by Nicholas
Book Synopsis''As far back as I can remember, I''ve always wanted to be a gangster.''Henry Hill grows up in the 1950s, in a Brooklyn neighbourhood where Italian-American gangsters walk tall in the streets, commanding the respect of their peers. Young Henry dreams that one day he too might be a professional ''wiseguy'' - a ''goodfella''. His wishes come true with remarkable speed once he teams up with renowned hoodlum Jimmy Conway and his alarmingly psychotic pal Tommy DeVito. Henry embarks on an everyday life of crime which takes him from rags to gaudy riches, in and out of the federal penitentiary and under the unwelcome spotlight of the FBI. As the 1970s turn sour Henry finds himself at the sharp end of the cocaine trade, increasingly adrift from his extended mobster ''family'' and forced to make a tough decision about his future . . . The film that re-established Martin Scorsese''s eminence among American directors after years of professional difficulties, GoodFellas
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Faber & Faber Orlando
Book SynopsisOrlando is Sally Potter's bold, unsentimental re-working of Virginia Woolf's classic novel in which an innocent aristocrat journeys through 400 years of English history - first as a man, then as a woman.The film has won more than twenty international awards and enjoyed considerable box-office success around the world.Addressing contemporary concerns about gender and identity, the screenplay is remarkably true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf. But it also skilfully adapts the original story to give it a striking, cinematic form. How Sally Potter has achieved this is described in the book's Introduction, which outlines the process by which Woolf's novel has been transformed into Potter's film.
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Faber & Faber Naked and Other Screenplays
Book SynopsisThree screenplays by Mike Leigh. Naked presents a bleak picture of urban society, Life is Sweet is a gentle comedy in which the pain of everyday life is borne with a wry smile, and High Hopes is a comedy of class-ridden life in contemporary Britain.
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Faber & Faber Smoke Blue in the Face
Book SynopsisTwo stories which have been made into films. In Smoke a novelist, suffering from writer's block and the violent death of his wife, is inspired by a young black boy to write again. The action of Blue in the Face partly takes place in the cigar shop which was the focal point of Smoke.
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Faber & Faber The Madness of King George
Book SynopsisWhen George III''s behaviour begins to seem odd, even for Royalty, the collapse of government is imminent. The King is subjected to the horrors of eighteenth-century medicine, the Ministers scrabble to remain in office and the Prince of Wales prepares to take power.An exploration of the nature of kingship, the screenplay for The Madness of King George is based on the successful stage play, The Madness of George III.Alan Bennett''s entertaining introduction to the screenplay includes his production diary, notes comparing his stage and screen versions, and the political background to the Court of George III. Also included are a selection of stills from the film.
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St. Martins Press-3PL The Big Lebowski
Book SynopsisThe screenplay to another offbeat movie by the Academy Award-winning Coen brothers. As a result of a case of mistaken identity, Jeffrey Lebowski - alias The Dude - finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bag man - a situation that goes from bad to even worse due to the interference of his hapless bowling partners.
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Faber & Faber Screenplay
Book SynopsisThe screenplay of the second film written by Anderson and Wilson, "Rushmore" is a sophisticated American comedy. It tells the story of a gifted, iconoclastic youth called Max Fischer who rocks the boat at the elite, conservative Rushmore Academy.
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Faber & Faber Lehman E North by Northwest
Book SynopsisHitchcock''s best-loved romantic thriller is one of the most influential works ever made in the genre - an enticing cocktail of suspense, comedy, eroticism and danger.Roger Thornhill is a suave but stiff-necked Madison Avenue executive, who finds himself mistaken for a US intelligence agent, and dragged into life-threatening escapades. His consolation is that he gets to romance an elegant female spy, but he soon learns that the game of international intrigue is played for high stakes. Ernest Lehman provides an introduction to this souvenir volume, published to coincide with the centenary of Hitchcock''s birth, in which he describes the course of his cherishable collaboration with the master of suspense.
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