Television screenplays and scripts Books
Wayne State University Press The XFiles TV Milestones Series
Trade ReviewBy analyzing The X-Files engagement with technoscience, governmentality, institutional corruption, and threats to the intimacy of partnership, this book gives us fresh and valuable ways of thinking about one of the most important and influential contemporary television series.""- Diane Negra, professor of film studies and screen culture, University College Dublin, and co-editor-in-chief of Television and New Media;""[Geller] has produced the first major work to include examination of the series' revival in the form of a tenth season in 2016. That Geller does so with straightforward language, clear notes, and a logical organization structure (as well as refreshing brevity) is laudable.""- Kathleen W. Taylor Kollman, The Journal of American Culture
£16.15
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
£12.99
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.
£16.96
University of Toronto Press Inhabiting the InBetween
Book SynopsisAlthough children have proliferated in Spain’s cinema since its inception, nowhere are they privileged and complicated in quite the same way as in the films of the 1970s and early 1980s, a period of radical political and cultural change for the nation as it emerged from almost four decades of repressive dictatorship under the rule of General Francisco Franco. In Inhabiting the In-Between: Childhood and Cinema in Spain’s Long Transition, Sarah Thomas analyses the cinematic child within this complex historical conjuncture of a nation looking back on decades of authoritarian rule and forward to an uncertain future. Examining films from several genres by four key directors of the Transition Carlos Saura, Antonio Mercero, Víctor Erice, and Jaime de Armiñán Thomas explores how the child is represented as both subject and object, and self and other, and consistently cast in a position between categories or binary poles. She demonstrates how the cinematic childTrade Review"Thomas has crafted a meticulously documented study that is theoretically sound, insightful, and nimbly written. This monograph will be of great interest to a wide readership, especially those interested in Iberian Studies and film criticism. As such, Thomas’s monograph on in-betweenness and childhood in selected films from the Long Transition is a welcome contribution to the field." -- John Margenot * Hispania *"The innovative and convincing interpretations of Inhabiting the In-Between recommend themselves to the reader with an insistence upon the narrative and psychological complexity of these films. Beyond its substantial contribution to Spanish film studies, this book urges one to be aware that the liminality of childhood and adolescence is brief, irretrievable, and when neglected, can amount to a missed opportunity." -- Elizabeth Scarlett * Revista de Estudios Hispánicos *"Sarah Thomas’ Inhabiting the In-Between is a beautifully written study of a still under-examined period in Spain’s recent history, the Transition to Democracy, that trains its focus on the emergent figure of the child protagonist in the lesser-known works by art house and lesser-studied popular cinema directors. Thomas grounds the child in national moments of import as she follows film scholars Vicky LeBeau, Karen Lury, and Emma Wilson in exploring this figure in filmic and philosophical inquiry that inflects, in varying degrees, the bildungsfilm, the haptic and the gaze, biopolitics, historical memory, queer studies, and cultural geography beyond the bounds of Iberian film and history. As this list suggests, Inhabiting the In-Between exhibits a productive interdisciplinary, or fluid theoretical inbetweenness." -- Erin K. Hogan, University of Maryland Baltimore County * Ciberletras *"Inhabiting the In-Between is perceptive, original, clearly written, and a welcome addition to the slim collection of innovative studies of Spanish films during the transition from Dictatorship to Democracy." -- Soledad Fox Maura, Williams College * The Seminary Co-op *"Beyond its substantial contribution to Spanish film studies, this book urges one to be aware that the liminality of childhood and adolescence is brief, irretrievable, and when neglected, can amount to a missed opportunity." -- Elizabeth Scarlett, State University of New York at Buffalo * Revista de Estudios Hispánicos *"Thomas builds on already existing scholarship in the field of childhood in cinema to provide a valuable contribution to the study of the child in Spanish cinema." -- Gemma Haigh, University of Birmingham * Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Translation and Dates Introduction: Inhabiting the In-Between 1. Impossible Returns: The Child as Self and Other in Carlos Saura’s El jardín de las delicias (1970) and La prima Angélica (1974) 2. Innocent Creatures: Child as Commodity and Animal in Mercero’s La guerra de papá (1977) and Tobi, el niño con alas (1978) 3. Oscillating Encounters: Alignment and Foreclosure in Víctor Erice’s El espíritu de la colmena (1973) and El sur (1983) 4. Betwixt and Between: Liminal Adolescence in Jaime de Armiñán’s El amor del capitán Brando (1974) and El nido (1980) Coda Bibliography Notes
£47.60
Anagrama Lacombe Lucien
Book Synopsis
£19.11
Cambridge University Press Hauntology Nostalgia and New Music
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£18.00
Penguin Putnam Inc A Raisin in the Sun
Book SynopsisUnder the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this completely restored screenplay is the accurate and authoritative edition of Lorraine Hansberry's script and a testament to her unparalled accomplishment as a Black artist.The 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun, with a screenplay by the author, Lorraine Hansberry, won an award at the Cannes Film Festival even though one-third of the actual screenplay Hansberry had written had been cut out. The film did essentially bring Hansberry's extraordinary play to the screen, but it failed to fulfill her cinematic vision. Now, with this landmark edition of Lorraine Hansberry's original script for the movie of A Raisin in the Sun that audiences never viewed, readers have at hand an epic, eloquent work capturing not only the life and dreams of a Black family, but the
£9.49
HarperCollins Espanol Luz Cámara Magia Así Se Hizo Animales Fantásticos
Book Synopsis
£18.54
Bedford Square Publishers Who Me
£23.02
Fayetteville Mafia Press A Screenwriter's Companion: Instruction, Opinion,
Book Synopsis“I was a writer before I knew what a writer was.” —Joseph Dougherty Joseph Dougherty has been a successful playwright and television writer, producer, and director for more than thirty years. He’s written for breakthrough series that have changed the way we look at television drama, from thirtysomething to Pretty Little Liars, winning everything from Emmys to Teen Choice Awards along the way. Dougherty’s voice comes off the page with anecdotes about the writing process, hard-learned tips for survival in “the business,” and reflections on the influences that have led him to a successful career. Honestly, entertainingly, without cynicism, he gives readers permission to embrace the writer they want to be, so they can experience the rewards and satisfactions of writing. Beyond an insider’s take on story and structure, dialogue, action and outlining, A Screenwriter’s Companion is as much mentor as it is manual. With every insider observation about how to keep a potential producer reading till the last page of a script, there’s encouragement to explore your thoughts and memories, things a writer needs to embrace in order to become more than “a pro.”
£22.97
