Television screenplays and scripts Books
Manchester University Press Substance / Style: Moments in Television
Book SynopsisAn exciting new strand in The Television Series, the ‘Moments in Television’ collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.Each ‘Moments’ book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Substance / styleoffers fresh perspectives on television’s essential qualities and aesthetic significance. It reassesses the synergy between substance and style, highlighting the potential for meaning to arise through their integration. The book’s chosen programmes are persuasively illuminated in new ways.The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction: substance/style – Lucy Fife Donaldson, Sarah Cardwell and Jonathan Bignell1 Layers of style: design and embodiment in The Americans – Lucy Fife Donaldson2 New uniforms! Costume and the 1950s/60s in Call the Midwife – Josette Wolthuis3 When style is substance and beyond: Les Revenants as metaphysical drama – Alberto N. García4 Representing mediated identity and consciousness in The Good Wife – Ariane Hudelet5 Performing laughter in Friends– Gary Cassidy6 ‘You’re what’s wrong with America, Simpson’: style, appreciation and the temporally prolonged problem of The Simpsons– Michael Clark7 Resurrection, revelation, reception: rescuing John From Cincinnati from the HBO narrative – Robert Watts8 Police Squad! The Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker style versus the substance of early 1980s television – Emilio Audissino9 Grand designs: television, style and substance in The Time Tunnel – Jonathan BignellIndex
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Manchester University Press Sound / Image: Moments in Television
Book SynopsisAn exciting new strand in The Television Series, the ‘Moments in Television’ collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.Each ‘Moments’ book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Sound / image reassesses the synergy between televisual images, and sounds and music, as a key creative interaction warranting closer attention. Through close scrutiny of visual and sonic elements, the book’s chosen programmes are persuasively illuminated in new ways.The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction: sound/image – Jonathan Bignell, Sarah Cardwell and Lucy Fife Donaldson1 Alien or familiar: sounds and images in The Twilight Zone, ‘The Invaders’ – Jonathan Bignell2 Investigating Morse: detecting innovations in sound and vision – Richard Hewett3 Discordant vocals and blinding light: the moment of petrification in Children of the Stones – Peter Hughes Jachimiak4 ‘Anything is possible now’: jazz music and images of the past in Stephen Poliakoff’s Dancing on the Edge– Will Stanford Abbiss5 Non-naturalist realism: sound and image in Alan Clarke’s Road – Paul Elliott6 Feeling sound: audiovisuality and the multisensory in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return – Caroline L. Eastwood7 Bodyguard: the rush of the ride – Maike Helmers and Christa van Raalte 8 Tableaux at the end of the world: living pictures in The Walking Dead – Tim Butler Garrett9 Silence and faces in Mad Men – Elliott LoganIndex
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Hodder & Stoughton Inside No. 9: The Scripts Series 1-3
Book Synopsis'The joy of these scripts is in being able to appreciate the craft and ambition involved in the sharpness of the dialogue, the cunning of the plotting, and the desire never to repeat themselves, as Pemberton and Shearsmith build each episode into a miniaturist treasure. A must for anyone who wants to write for television, or who just wants to see how the magic is done.'- NEIL GAIMANTake a further peek behind the door marked 'number 9' as the scripts from series 1-3 are collected here for the first time. An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, read how each 30-minute self-contained story with new characters and new settings, sprang to life from the page.Each series is prefaced by a foreword from the show creators, giving readers and fans behind-the-scenes insight to this creative phenomenon. It is a beautifully written series, some stories comic, some tragic, all highly original and inventive. As well as Steve and Reece, it has featured guest appearances from a plethora well-known actors including Jack Whitehall, Peter Kay, Sheridan Smith, Gemma Arterton, Keeley Hawes, Alison Steadman, Conleth Hill, and David Morrissey. Relive the show's every enjoyable moment down to the stage directions with Inside No. 9: The Scripts: Series 1-3.Trade ReviewThe joy of these scripts is in being able to appreciate the craft and ambition Involved in the sharpness of the dialogue, the cunning of the plotting, and the desire never to repeat themselves, as Pemberton and Shearsmith build each episode into a miniaturist treasure. A must for anyone who wants to write for television, or who just wants to see how the magic is done. -- Neil Gaiman
£14.24
Fantom Films Limited The Daemons
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Headline Publishing Group Thank You For Being A Friend: The Little Guide to
Book SynopsisThe Golden Girls: the show that changed American TV, found an audience all around the world, and made a global legend out of Betty White. 1985 was the year of Live Aid, Back to the Future and the Nintendo. It also saw the start of one of the most well-known and well-loved sitcoms of all time: The Golden Girls. With a cast comprising women over 50, the show was as groundbreaking as it was hilarious. Averaging 25 million viewers an episode – and counting the Queen Mother among them – the show is still ranked among the best US sitcoms ever. And it continues to find a new audience today in younger generations on streaming, with merchandise as popular as ever.Packed with quotes and facts, this little book is perfect for any Golden Girls fan.Table of ContentsThank You For Being A Friend - Learn how the show and characters came to be • 1651 Richmond Street - The girls never acted their age, as these quotes and facts show • Vänskapskaka - Exploring the girls' friendship • Once Upon a Time in Sicily - Quotes and facts about the characters before their lives in Shady Pines • Senioritis - A collection of the girls' finest senior moments • Golden Oldies - A celebration of each of the women.
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Oldcastle Books Ltd Writing for Television: Series, Serials and Soaps
Book SynopsisA no-nonsense, direct down-the-lens look at the television industry written from the point of view of a television drama producer who's been there, done it, fought some battles and won the odd award. Written in an engaging, anecdotal tone, Writing for Television provides advice on: Getting an agent The type of writer television's looking for The tool kit a television writer needs The writer /script editor relationship How to structure a storyline How to write good treatments and outlines Packed full of useful insights, links and information, the book includes interviews with successful television writers working today, pointers on how to work collaboratively in the industry and how to make good contacts with the people who can further your career.Trade ReviewYvonne delivers a practical, accessible, no-nonsense guide to the world of writing for popular TV -- Mal Young - Producer, writer and former BBC Controller of Drama SeriesA very comprehensive and informative book on TV script writing. Yvonne covers every conceivable point that will help writers wanting to break into writing for the small screen, whilst at the same time creating a very accessible read -- Tony McHale * Sanctuary Films *A great read and a great guide. Learn from Yvonne Grace who's done it, is still doing it and has now written the book -- Gail Renard * The Writers' Guild of Great Britain *offers valuable insight, sage advice and a wealth of information -- Dominic Carver - Screenwriter
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Beyond the Fringe Screen and Cinema
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Faber & Faber Interstellar
Book SynopsisThe complete screenplay of Christopher Nolan''s space epicInterstellar, with over 200 pages of illustrated storyboards.In Interstellara group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.Written by Christopher Nolan and his frequent collaborator, Jonathan Nolan, the film stars Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain, Anne Hathaway, and Michael Caine. This edition includes the entire screenplay, over 200 pages of storyboards and an introduction featuring a conversation about the film with Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan.
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Faber & Faber Succession Season One The Complete Scripts
Book SynopsisThe complete, authorised scripts, including deleted scenes, of the multiple award-winning Succession.** Winner of nineteen Emmys, nine Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and a Grammy. **With an exclusive introduction from creator Jesse Armstrong.The most thrilling and beautifully obscene TV there is.' GuardianExtraordinarily entertaining and incisive.' EmpireOne of the most relentlessly paced shows on television.' Rolling StoneEverything I've done in my life is for my children.When Logan Roy, the head of one of the world''s largest media and entertainment conglomerates, decides to retire, each of his four grown children follows a personal agenda that doesn''t always sync with those of their siblings -- or their father.Collected here for the first time, the complete scripts of Succession: Season One feature unseen extra material, including deleted scenes, alternative dialogue and character directions. They reveal a unique insight into the writing, creation and development of a TV sensation and a screen-writing masterpiece.Monstrous, near-Shakespearean perfection.' New Statesman
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Ebury Publishing Talking Heads
Book SynopsisAlan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, Talking Heads is widely regarded as a modern classic. This edition, which contains the complete collection of Talking Heads, as well as his earlier monologue, A Woman of No Importance, is a celebration of Alan Bennett's finest work.Trade ReviewTalking Heads places Alan Bennett in the highest tier of English dramatic writers * New York Times *His finest achievement - indeed masterpiece wouldn't be too strong a word * The Daily Telegraph *Bennett's genius is his ability to satirize humanely. [His] prose is like stained glass: if you stare at it, you see things you missed * New York Times Book Review *It's hardly a revelation to say that Alan Bennett has proved himself a master of the modern dramatic monologue... One of the finest dramatic achievements of the past few decades. * Scotsman *
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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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Faber & Faber Collected Screenplays Jokes Gummo Julien
Book SynopsisOnly 23-years-old when he directed his extraordinary début feature Gummo, Harmony Korine has since continued to serve notice that he is the riskiest, most radical young talent in independent US film. This collection of three screenplays displays his defiantly unorthodox approach to film form, as well as the unclassifiable imaginative energy that drives all of his work.
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Andrews UK Limited Mutually Assured Domination
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Andrews UK Limited The Life of Evans
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood Here Be Dragons
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Andrews UK Limited The Tomorrow People Prime Factors
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Andrews UK Limited The Tomorrow People Prime Factors
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Blood That Binds
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Barons Daughter
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Andrews UK Limited The Lost Skin
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Andrews UK Limited The Raccoons The One That Got Away
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Hell Mouth
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Magic Man
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Andrews UK Limited The Tomorrow People The Last One
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Edinburgh University Press Reclaiming Female Authorship in Contemporary Uk Television Comedy
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Penguin Books Ltd Alan Partridge Every Ruddy Word
Book SynopsisJoin Alan Partridge on his incredible journey of discovery in Every Ruddy Word: All The Scripts.Alan Partridge is our most remarkable broadcaster. From the giddy heights of his short-lived TV chat show to the crashing lows of six months in a travel tavern, he''s done it all. Whether shooting dead one of his guests on air; being crushed under a dead cow; having incomplete sex with a woman he was supposed to be sacking or encountering ''mentalist'' fans, Alan remains a formidable presence on Radio Norwich. And despite suffering a breakdown, Toblerone addiction and skewering his foot on a spike he always bounces back.From Alan Partridge''s first radio chat show to the pulping of his autobiography, Every Ruddy Word is the complete story of one of Britain''s most-enduring comic heroes.''Charts every line of Mr Blazer''s plummeting career from radio to TV to corporate video presenter. A treat''
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Manchester University Press Complexity / Simplicity: Moments in Television
Book SynopsisAn exciting new strand in The Television Series, the ‘Moments in Television’ collections celebrate the power and artistry of television, whilst interrogating key critical concepts in television scholarship.Each ‘Moments’ book is organised around a provocative binary theme. Complexity / simplicity addresses the idea of complex TV, examining its potential, limitations and impact upon creative and interpretative practices. It also reassesses simplicity as an alternative criterion for evaluation. Complexity and simplicity persuasively illuminate the book’s chosen programmes in new ways.The book explores an eclectic range of TV fictions, dramatic and comedic. Contributors from diverse perspectives come together to expand and enrich the kind of close analysis most commonly found in television aesthetics. Sustained, detailed programme analyses are sensitively framed within historical, technological, institutional, cultural, creative and art-historical contexts.Table of ContentsIntroduction: complexity/simplicity – Sarah Cardwell, Jonathan Bignell and Lucy Fife Donaldson1 ‘WTF June?’: The Handmaid’s Tale and the significance of unexpected choice – Trisha Dunleavy2 Being Frank? Breaking the ’fourth wall’ in Netflix’s House of Cards – Christa van Raalte and Maike Helmers3 ‘You’ve got to expect this kind of thing in the priesthood’: simplicity and complexity in Father Ted – Karen Quigley4 Depth in two dimensions: complex/simple moments in Rick and Morty – James Walters5 Simplicity and complexity in the costuming of Killing Eve – Josette Wolthuis6 Complexity and clear-sightedness in The Wire – James Zborowski7 Such schadenfreude: unpacking the political satire in Veep – Michael P. Young8 Queer adventures in time and space: complicating simplicity in Doctor Who – Benedict Morrison9 Vanity Fair and the contradictions of colour – Jonathan Bignell10 The value of simplicity: The Long Wait – Sarah CardwellIndex
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Manchester University Press You’Re Nicked: Investigating British Television
Book SynopsisYou’re nicked is the first comprehensive study of television police series in the UK. It reveals how British television’s most popular genre has developed stylistically, politically and philosophically from 1955 to the present.Each chapter focuses on a particular decade, investigating how the most-watched series represent the inner workings of the police station, the civilian life of criminals and the private lives of police officers. This new approach unearths the complex ideology underpinning each series and discerns the key insights the genre can provide into the breakdown of the post-war settlement.Offering insightful readings of police series from Dixon of Dock Green to Happy Valley via The Sweeney, The Bill and Cracker, the book is a must-read for crime-drama enthusiasts worldwide. This new paperback edition features an extensive epilogue on Line of Duty and other Jed Mercurio creations.Trade Review‘His book is a fascinating read, and should be read by all aspiring crime writers and academics interested in the genre.’ Jackie Malton, retired DCI and the real-life inspiration for DCI Tennison in Prime Suspect‘The way in which Lamb links representations of crime to criminological theory could be a valuable resource to anyone teaching courses on media and crime, as a means of exploring with students how criminological theory is not only produced in the academy, but also through popular culture.’The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice‘One could not hope for a more comprehensive treatment of the subject.’British Journal of Criminology‘Its perspective is generally innovative, and it covers a lot of ground in writing a genre history that simply did not exist before.’New Review of Film and Television Studies‘Lamb’s account is insightful and engaging, providing an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this most significant of television genres and its connection to the wider landscape of British socio-political history.’Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television‘The book manages to cover a huge amount of ground, in detail, and with reference to a repertoire of relevant series and iconography, to offer an insightful commentary on political and social change in the United Kingdom.’Journal of Popular Television'The scholarship in the book is impressive’Screen 'You’re Nicked could be used either as the core textbook for a module on UK police drama or as the source of further readings on any television histories course. Lamb’s monograph makes a valuable intervention, offering a fresh perspective on the analysis of small screen crime drama, while also filling asizeable gap in the history of the genre.'Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies'My favorite element of the book is the way in which Lamb shows how these police shows come to adopt traits of other genres at specific historical moments’. Journal of Popular film and Television -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: defining a genre 1 The 1950s and 1960s: a genre comes into its own2 The 1970s: an action-fuelled filmic decade?3 The 1980s: emergent feminist thought and resurgent video cameras4 The 1990s: transitioning from film to digital5 The 2000s: looking to the past6 The 2010s: looking to pastures newConclusion: good evening, allEpilogue: Jed Mercurio thrillers, pandemic policing and populismIndex
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Fantom Films Limited Shooting the Pilot
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Bedford Square Publishers Who Me
Book SynopsisA unique memoir combining personal history with unprecedented access to Doctor Who's behind-the-scenes evolution.
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Andrews UK Limited Mind of Stone
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Oldcastle Books Ltd Short Films: Writing the Screenplay
Book SynopsisEvery award-winning short film begins life with a clever idea, a good story and a screenplay. Patrick Nash analyses the process of writing short film screenplays and gives advice on: Story and structure Ideas generation Plot and pace Screenplay format Dos and don'ts Eliciting emotion Dialogue and subtext Character design Protagonists and antagonists Character motivation and goals Conflict, obstacles and stakes Clichés and Stereotypes Beginnings, middles and ends Hooking the viewer Screenplay competitions Loglines, outlines and synopses Rewriting and length Practicalities and budgets The book also includes a number of award-winning scripts and interviews, advice and contributions from their award-winning screenwriters and a discussion of the benefits to writers of writing short screenplays.Trade ReviewI would definitely recommend this book . . . (it is) a very thorough look at all aspects of being a writer of short scripts -- Michelle Goode * Writesofluid *Straight talking tome bursting with practical advice * Total Film *A helpful book for anyone interested in screenwriting -- Tom Farr * Tom Farr Reviews *
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Nick Hern Books Doctor Foster: The Scripts
Book SynopsisMike Bartlett's complete scripts for the award-winning first series of his superlative television drama, winner of Best New Drama at the 2016 National Television Awards and Best TV Drama at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards. Doctor Gemma Foster is a woman seemingly in control: a trusted GP, the heart of her town, a woman people can trust. But her life is about to explode. Suspecting her husband of having an affair, Gemma throws herself into an investigation that will propel her, her family, and even her patients into chaos. Bit by bit, Doctor Foster uncovers secrets that shock her to the core. Now she has to choose how to react. One thing is certain - she is going to behave in ways she could never have imagined. Doctor Foster: The Scripts contains the complete scripts to all five episodes of the first series, plus exclusive bonus material. Doctor Foster premiered on BBC One in September 2015, starring Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel. The series drew a weekly audience of over 8.2 million viewers, peaking at over 10 million for the finale, and was the BBC's highest-rating new drama of the year. It won two prizes at the National Television Awards 2016, including Best New Drama.Trade Review'A brilliant and gripping portrait of a marriage slowly being poisoned' * Guardian *'An edgy nail-biter' * Telegraph *'Crackingly tense… fabulously dramatic and involving' * Radio Times *'A gripping psychological thriller' * Independent *
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Hodder & Stoughton The Book What I Wrote Eric Ernie and Me
Book SynopsisIncludes funny memoirs of one of Britain's best-loved, highly successful comedy writers, whose scripts for "Morecambe" and "Wise" catapulted the incomparable duo to stardom.Trade ReviewPure Morecombe and Wise. Boom boom. -- Sunday Times
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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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Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd personaandshame
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Headline Publishing Group Porridge Scripts
Book SynopsisRegarded by many critics as Britain''s best sitcom, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais'' tales of life inside Slade Prison first hit the screens in 1973 and ran until 1977. But it has never faded from the nation''s consciousness. Ronnie Barker as Fletch the old lag and Richard Beckinsale as Godber the naive first-time offender are comic creations as fine as any in the history of television. Now, for the first time, Richard Webber has brought together the original scripts from all three series of PORRIDGE to make this the essential souvenir for all the many fans of this much-loved classic comedy.
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Wayne State University Press The West Wing TV Milestones Series
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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
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Oldcastle Books Ltd From Creation to Pitch
Book SynopsisFrom the initial spark of inspiration to the delivery of a creative, but essentially commercial, series, From Creation to Pitch sets out to demystify the process of Television Series Drama Development for writers keen to get their voices heard and their stories read, discussed and viewed....
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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
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Rockridge Press The Creative Screenwriter: 12 Rules to
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Headline Publishing Group Monty Python's Flying Circus: 50 Years of Hidden
Book SynopsisThis book delves into the official archives and recounts the history of the men who changed the face of comedy. The story is told through photographs, text, props and memorabilia, including hand-scribbled scripts, never-before-published cue sheets, artwork, unused presentation material, and more, offering the reader a unique peek into the world of these comic geniuses. The "Dead Parrot" sketch. "The Lumberjack Song". "Argument Clinic". "Spam". Monty Python's Flying Circus was packed with famous skits and classic one-liners, many of which are still globally recognized, from the Hollywood Bowl to the University of Woolloomooloo. Their irreverent humour is the yardstick by which others are judged and the adjective "Pythonesque" has been part of the English language for years. And 50 years after first broadcast, Monty Python's Flying Circus is still attracting and amusing audiences around the world.
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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 *
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Faber & Faber Venus
Book SynopsisWith VENUS, Hanif Kureishi turns his piercing gaze onto the pains of old age. Maurice (Peter O''Toole) and Ian (Leslie Phillips) are veteran stage actors whose slow, inevitable decline is disrupted by the arrival in their lives of Ian''s niece Jessie (Jodie Whittaker). While Jessie''s housekeeping skills make for a bone of contention with Ian, Maurice finds himself attracted to her. Kureishi has crafted a disturbing, wry and profoundly moving swansong for his characters. Also included in this volume is an Introduction by Kureishi in which he describes the inspiration he drew from the Japanese master Tanizaki.
£8.54
Josef Weinberger Plays The Liver Birds Guild library
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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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Crown Small Screen Big Picture A Writers Guide to the TV Business
Book SynopsisTake On Hollywood and Make It as a Television Writer.From mediabistro.com, the media industry’s most well-respected source for jobs, professional development, and community, this inside-the-business guide gives you the knowledge and tools you need to infiltrate Hollywood and land a job as a TV writer. That’s right—Small Screen, Big Picture gives you a competitive edge over millions of other aspiring writers who share your talent, creativity, and determination . . . because after reading these pages, you’ll have the one thing they lack: an understanding of the business of television.This journey into Hollywood’s inner workings not only details how networks, studios, and production companies work together, it teaches you how the process affects the creation and writing of TV series, how shows make money, and—ultimately—how you can use this information to break into the industry. You’ll learn:• What r
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