Television screenplays and scripts Books
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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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 Collected Screenplays 1 The Servant Pumpkin Eater
Book SynopsisThere is no writer who excels at the art of adaptation for the screen so much as Harold Pinter. His consummate skill and unerring ear for dialogue, coupled with his sensitivity and understanding of the work of other authors, make the three volumes of his screenplays (of which this is the first) a collective masterclass in screenwriting.Included in this collection are the screenplays for The Servant, The Pumpkin Eater, The Quiller Memorandum, Accident, The Last Tycoon and Langrishe, Go Down.
£21.25
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Collected Screenplays Blood SimpleRaising ArizonaMillers CrossingBarton Fink
Book SynopsisThis title contains a collection of the screenplays written by Joel and Ethan Coen. The plays include, "Raising Arizona" and "Barton Fink".
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Faber & Faber Collected Screenplays My Beautiful Laundrette
Book SynopsisHanif Kureishi''s cinematic storytelling embraces a wide spectrum of characters from all classes and nationalities, depicting them with compassion, humour and relish, though never fighting shy of controversy. This volume comprises four of Kureishi''s screenplays.My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)Omar is a restless young Asian man, caring for his alcoholic father in the hustling London of the mid-1980s. His uncle, a keen Thatcherite, offers Omar an entrepreneurial opportunity to revamp a dingy laundrette, and ambitious Omar rolls up his sleeves, enlisting the assistance of his old school-friend Johnny, who has since fallen in with a gang of neo-fascists. Omar and Johnny soon form an unlikely alliance that leads to business success, as well as other, more intimate surprises.Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987)1980s London, and Sammy and Rosie share an ''open'' marriage, strings of lovers, and a bohemian existence amidst inner-city turmoil. Sammy''s
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Faber & Faber Collected Screenplays Faber Screenplays
Book SynopsisFrom his early days as a playwright, David Hare has moved deliberately between stage, film and television, over the years building up a repertoire of work, most of which seeks to capture the changing feelings of contemporary life. Now, for the first time, some of Hare''s best, and most characteristic, screenplays are collected together in a single volume, confirming his status as one of Britain''s most passionate and versatile writers of fiction.This volume also contains an illuminating introduction by the author.
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Faber & Faber Apocalypse Now Redux
Book SynopsisIn May 1979, Francis Ford Coppola unveiled a 'work in progress' cut of his film, Apocalypse Now, at the Cannes Film Festival. After winning the prestigious Palme d'Or, the convention-shattering film was nominated for eight Academy Awards and became a worldwide phenomenon. In 2001 Coppola introduced a new version - wholly re-edited from the original raw footage - that included forty-nine minutes of never-before-seen footage: Apocalypse Now Redux.Apocalypse Now relocates Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to the Vietnam War, focusing on the hazardous mission of Captain Willard to find and terminate 'with extreme prejudice' a renegade American colonel in Cambodia.
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Faber & Faber Me Im Afraid of Virginia Woolf A Day Out Sunset
Book SynopsisAlan Bennett is the acknowledged master of the television play. This vintage collection of his work from the 1970s illustrates his skill and mastery of the medium from the beginning. Perceptive, poignant, truthful and very funny, the work here gives as much enjoyment in the reading as it did in the viewing, and provides a welcome addition to the Bennett canon.The television plays included are A Day Out, Sunset Across the Bay, A Visit from Miss Prothero, Me, I''m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Green Forms, The Old Crowd and Afternoon Off. This volume contains a new general introduction by Alan Bennett, as well as the original preface by Lindsay Anderson to The Old Crowd.A companion volume of Alan Bennett''s work from the late 1970s and early 1980s is published as Rolling Home.
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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.
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Faber & Faber Breaking and Entering
Book SynopsisIn this intimate relationship drama, set in multi-cultural London, Anthony Minghella unites an award-winning cast, many of whom have shone in his previous films.
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Faber & Faber Atonement
Book SynopsisATONEMENTTHE SHOOTING SCRIPTScreenplay by Christopher HamptonBased on the novel by Ian McEwanIntroduction by Christopher HamptonA Newmarket Shooting Script Series Book 30 Colour photos in a colour insertThe official screenplay book tie-in to the adaptation by screenwriter Christopher Hampton (Academy Award winner for Dangerous Liaisons) of Ian McEwan''s best-selling 2002 novel, starring James McAvoy (BAFTA Award nominee for The Last King of Scotland) opposite Academy Award-nominated Keira Knightley, directed by Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice), coming from Focus Features in December. Filmed on location in the U.K., the story of Atonement spans several decades. In 1935, 13-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) and her family live a life of wealth and privilege in their enormous mansion. On the warmest day of the year, the country estate takes on an unsettling hothouse atmosphere, stoking Briony
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Faber & Faber In Bruges
Book SynopsisAfter a shooting in London goes hideously wrong, two hitmen, Ray and Ken, are sent to hide out in the strange, Gothic, medieval town of Bruges, Belgium, by their volatile and dangerous boss, Harry Waters.While awaiting instructions from him as to what to do next, the pair attempt to deal both with their feelings over the botched killing and their differing attitudes towards this curious, otherworldly place they''ve been dumped in (''Bruges is a shithole.'' ''Bruges is not a shithole''), until the call from Harry finally comes through, and all three men are enmeshed in a spiral of bloody violence that few will get out of alive.This jet-black comedy marks the feature-film debut of writer/director Martin McDonagh, award-winning author of such plays as The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Pillowman, and the film Six Shooter, which won the Academy Award for the Best Live-Action Short Film.The film stars Colin Farrel
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Faber & Faber Seasons Greetings
Book SynopsisNow we don''t want to start Christmas like this, do we?Cheating at snakes and ladders, fighting over comic books, a bungled infidelity beneath the tree. Christmas has arrived in the Bunker household along with family and friends. But as the children lurk just out of sight, it''s the adults who are letting the side down. I couldn''t. Not in our sitting-room. Not in front of the television. Somewhere else. Presiding over the festivities are two warring uncles, one a kindly, incompetent doctor with an interminable puppet show to perform; the other a bullying retired security guard who dominates the TV, brings toy guns for his nieces and determines there''s a thief in their midst. Alan Ayckbourn''s masterly Season''s Greetings offers a seriously entertaining look at the misery and high jinks of an average family Christmas. The play opens at the National Theatre, London, in December 2010.Three times I caught him at it. Rippi
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Faber & Faber The Rockingham Shoot and Other Dramatic Writings
Book SynopsisSinclair; The Sisters; Swallows; The Rockingham Shoot; The Power of DarknessJohn McGahern, the leading Irish novelist of his generation, wrote a substantial number of compelling scripts for radio and television. This volume brings together five of his produced works, at the heart of which sits the previously unpublished The Rockingham Shoot, a dark and powerful play for television that concerns a Nationalist teacher whose attempt to prevent his pupils beating at a pheasant shoot held in honour of the British Ambassador leads to a shockingly violent incident. Collectively, these dramatic works offer an evocative and often stark account of a deeply troubled and divided nation.
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Faber & Faber To Provide All People A Poem in the Voice of the
Book SynopsisShould be made compulsory reading . . . If it were up to me this clear-sighted yet emotionally charged hymn to the NHS would be added to the curriculum in every high school from Land's End to John O'Groats with immediate effect.' i newspaper July 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. To Provide All People is the intimate story of the NHS in British society today, written by novelist, poet and dramatist Owen Sheers. Depicting 24 hours, with a regional hospital at the centre of the action, the poem charts an emotional and philosophical map of the NHS against the personal experiences that lie at its heart; from patients to surgeons, porters to midwives. This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth.Informed by over seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated
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Faber & Faber Two Besides A Pair of Talking Heads
Book Synopsis***Available for pre-order now***The gorgeous, pocket-sized edition of the two brand-new Talking Heads***As seen on BBC1 and iPlayer*** 'Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I've added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise. They just about end up on top and go on, but without quite knowing how. Still, they're in good company, and at least they've made it into print.' Alan Bennett's twelve Talking Heads are acknowledged masterworks by one of our most highly acclaimed writers. Some thirty years after the original six, Bennett has written Two Besides, a pair of monologues. Each, in its way, is a devastating portrait of grief. In An Ordinary Woman, a mother suffers the inevitable consequences when she makes life intolerable for herself and her family by falling for her own flesh and blood; while The Shrine tells the story behind a
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Faber & Faber Two Besides
Book SynopsisTwo brand-new monologues in the Talking Heads series, as seen on BBC1 and iPlayer 'Given the opportunity to revisit the characters from Talking Heads I've added a couple more, both of them ordinary women whom life takes by surprise.
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Faber & Faber Succession Season Three
Book SynopsisThe complete, authorised scripts, including deleted scenes, of the multiple award-winning Succession.The smartest, cruellest, funniest show on television.' Irish TimesThe most thrilling and beautifully obscene TV there is.' Guardian''Miraculously funny yet mind-blowingly intense.'' Empire** Winner of nineteen Emmys, nine Golden Globes, three BAFTAs and a Grammy. **With an exclusive introduction from Lucy Prebble. Love'. You're coming for me with love?In the wake of an ambush by his rebellious son, Kendall, Logan Roy is in a perilous position, scrambling to secure familial, political and financial alliances. A bitter corporate battle threatens to turn into a family civil war.Collected here for the first time, the complete scripts of Succession: Season Three feature unseen extra material, including deleted scenes, alternative dialogue and characte
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Samuel French Ltd Rising Damp
Book SynopsisWhen Student Alan moves into an attic flat, he does not expect to find it already inhabited by someone else. They mysterious Philip claims to be the son of an African chief with ten wives waiting for him back home, but his presence is the least of Alan''s worries.-1 woman, 3 men
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Samuel French Inc Play it Again Sam
Book SynopsisComedy Characters: 3 male, 8 female Interior Set Allan Felix has this thing about Humphrey Bogart. If only he had some of Bogart's technique...Bookish and insecure with women, Allan's hero, Bogey comes to the rescue, with a fantastic bevy of beauties played out in hilarious fantasy sequences. Fixed up by friends with gorgeous women, he's so awkward that even Bogey's patience is tried. Allan mostly resembles a disheveled, friendly dog and this is what ultimately charms his best friend's wife, Linda into bed. It's a tough life, making it in the world of beautiful people but if you can't be a hero it helps to have one...Hilarious...a cheerful romp. Not only are Mr. Allen's jokes and their follow ups, asides and twists audaciously brilliant, but he has a great sense of character.-The New York Times A funny, likeable comedy that has a surprising amount of wistful appeal.-New York Post
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Quarto Publishing PLC Well Documented
Book SynopsisWell Documented explores 100 of the most compelling documentaries, each with the power to change our perceptions and raise awareness of the world around us.Table of ContentsForeword IntroductionPEOPLE & PLACES Man with a Movie Camera, Araya, Chronicle of a Summer, The Up Series, Tokyo Olympiad, Portrait of Jason, Titicut Follies, Salesman, An American Family, Grey, Gardens, News from Home, Sherman’s March, Paris is Burning, SPOTLIGHT ON: City Symphonies, The Belovs, To Be and To Have, Touching the Void, Murderball, Dreams of a Life, Stories We Tell, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Dick Johnson is Dead, A Secret LovePOLITICS & SOCIETY Primary, Minamata: The Victims and Their World, El Sopar, Harlan County, USA, A Grin Without a Cat, Roger & Me, SPOTLIGHT ON: Propaganda, Hoop Dreams, When We Were Kings, West of the Tracks, Nostalgia for the Light, The Queen of Versailles, How to Survive a Plague, Citizenfour, 13th, Fire at Sea, I Am Not Your Negro, Maiden, Infinite Football, Crip CampART & CULTURE Don’t Look Back, F for Fake, Amazing Grace, A Bigger Splash, Burden of Dreams, The Quince Tree Sun, Geri, The Gleaners and I, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, SPOTLIGHT ON: The Concert Film, Rize, Man on Wire, The Beaches of Agnès, The September Issue Exit Through the Gift Shop, Pina, Amy, Further Beyond, Dawson City: Frozen Time, The Beatles: Get BackHISTORY & CONFLICT The War Game, The Sorrow and the Pity, The World at War, The Battle of Chile, Hearts and Minds, Shoah, The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On, Lessons of Darkness, The Power of Nightmares, SPOTLIGHT ON: The War on Terror, Waltz with Bashir, Five Broken Cameras, The Act of Killing, State Funeral, For Sama, Exterminate All the BrutesSCIENCE & NATURE Nanook of the North, Life on Earth, Cosmos, Koyaanisqatsi, For All Mankind, SPOTLIGHT ON: A Fragile World, Grizzly Man, Manufactured Landscapes, Into Eternity, The Dust Bowl, Leviathan, CowCRIME & INJUSTICE The Thin Blue Line, Close-Up, Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, 4 Little Girls, Bus 174, Capturing the Friedmans, SPOTLIGHT ON: Serial Crimes, Sisters in Law, Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, Making a Murderer, O.J.: Made in America, Louis Theroux: Dark States, Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation, Collective, A Cop MovieSHORT FILMS À Propos de Nice, Land Without Bread, Night Mail, Listen to Britain, Blood of the Beasts, Daybreak Express, The Mad Masters, Night and Fog, The House is Black, LBJ, Powers of Ten, Ten Minutes Older, Gallivant, The Train Stop, Lift, Svyato, The Solitary Life of Cranes, Atlantics, A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness, Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) Index Picture Credits About the Author & Acknowledgements
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Quarto Publishing PLC Peaky Blinders Official Wit Wisdom
Book SynopsisPeaky Blinders, a gangster family epic, set in the lawless streets of Birmingham post the First World War, has gained fans and admirers the world over. The iconic costumes, scenery, characters and plot lines keep millions coming back time after time. In addition, the stellar quality of the writing has produced some instantly recognizable quotes and phrases. Here, in the Peaky Blinders: Official Wit & Wisdom, the best of these quotes have been gathered together alongside stylish photography and illustrations, giving fans of the show the perfect opportunity to relive their favourite moments.
£8.99
Manchester University Press Beckett on Screen
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the five dramas written by Samuel Beckett for television, in the context of British television. -- .Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 Production2 Broadcasting contexts3 Institutions and authorship4 Intertexts5 Evaluations6 AfterwordBibliographyIndex
£76.50
Andrews UK Limited Mutually Assured Domination
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Andrews UK Limited The Life of Evans
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Andrews UK Limited The Life of Evans
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Andrews UK Limited The Flaming Soldier
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Andrews UK Limited The Flaming Soldier
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Waterford Boy
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood Here Be Dragons
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood Queen of the Black Sun
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Sorcerers Incantation
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood Wolves of Winter
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood Fitzwarrens Well The Ladys
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Scathlock Woman
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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 Huntress
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Huntress
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Templars Promise
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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 Blood That Binds
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Barons Daughter
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Barons Daughter
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Andrews UK Limited The Raccoons Blast from the Past
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Andrews UK Limited The Lost Skin
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Andrews UK Limited Other Wars Other Worlds
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Andrews UK Limited Robin of Sherwood The Outlaw King
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