Television screenplays and scripts Books
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....
£17.09
Edinburgh University Press Debating Authenticity
Book SynopsisAnalyses emerging trans-authored media-both content and paratexts-to deconstruct authenticity claims and foreground trans embodiment.
£85.50
Oldcastle Books Ltd Web TV Series
Book SynopsisToday, people can watch television shows, feature films, live sporting events, and just about anything they want on their computers, tablets or phones. As the new media marketplace continues to grow, so does demand for original content and opportunities for filmmakers. Online distributors - such as YouTube, Hulu, and Funny or Die - are interested in acquiring web series (episodic digital entertainment, like mini-TV shows) that attract audiences and appeal to advertisers. Web TV Series... How to Make and Market Them provides advice and expertise to help readers create their own original, successful online shows - projects that can be profitable, potentially developed into film or television properties, and help to start a career in the industry. Readers will learn how to develop characters and stories designed for new media platforms, and find tips for planning, shooting, and editing that are tailored specifically to web series production. This book also extensively covers the latest distribution platforms and social media marketing strategies, as well as examples of how to find financial sustainability through advertisers, branded content, and sponsorship partners. Web Series has all of the tools necessary for both aspiring and experienced filmmakers to make the most of this growing new medium.Trade ReviewDan Williams provides the background and information you need to start a Web TV series, whilst encouraging you to develop your own individuality and creative processes -- Leo White * Kamera Film Salon *This book encourages quality work, and does a quality job of instructing it * Write So Fluid *
£15.29
Oldcastle Books Ltd Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays
Book SynopsisWhat happens when 'happy ever after' isn't quite so simple? Today's attitudes to love and romance are as varied and diverse as individuals, and audiences want and need more sophisticated, authentic films that show how we live and love now. So what does this mean for the screenwriter developing a romcom? And how do they write heart-warming stories for a genre that is constantly evolving, from bromcom to zomcom to famcom? Writing and Selling Romantic Comedy Screenplays offers a fresh approach to creating narratives for this ever-changing genre. Moving away from rigid and limited definitions that have evolved out of mainstream genre films, the book embraces a working definition that crosses cultural and national boundaries to give screenwriters around the world a truly international perspective on writing comedic love stories. It will be the first screenwriting guide to reflect the diversity of approaches in today's films that deal with the human need for emotional and physical intimacy using humour - the contemporary romantic comedy. Features of the book include: Illuminating, challenging and provocative about the state of the rom-com genre. Why do some films feel so dated, while others are perennially relevant? Explores and defines all subgenres of romcom, such as zomcom, bromedy, soromcom and famcom. Uniquely draws on creativity, screenwriting genre theory and film industry practice. Stimulating creative exercises at the end of every chapter, and 'hot tips' throughout. Adaptable concepts that can be applied to both feature films and short films. Encourages screenwriters to define their own values about love to ensure their voice and message is original - and commercial. Case studies and analyses of produced screenplays, including Dostana, Due Date, I Give it a Year, I love You, Man, Midnight in Paris, Ruby Sparks, Tamara Drewe, Ted and Warm Bodies. Interviews with writers, directors and producers. Genuine international perspective. Indispensible guide for both the student and the professional writer or filmmaker.
£17.09
Oldcastle Books Ltd The Art of Screenplays - A Writer's Guide
Book SynopsisThe Art of Screenplays is a working handbook for writers with stories to tell. Addressing the key issues of creativity and craft, its aim is to connect with our natural understanding of story, to demystify the screenwriter's art, and to enable fresh, original and authentic writing. Working on the central premise that drama reflects nature, and screenplays simply echo life as we know it, the areas Mukherjee discusses include: The Writer's eye. How to gather, ferment and communicate story. The art of action. Understanding structure through observation. Who am I? Exploring the levels of characters. Vertical structure. Say what you mean. Mean what you say. Speak the speech. The art of not writing dialogue. Trade ReviewRM comes across as what he is: a screenwriter of real experience who has the confidence and knowledge of having worked extensively at the industry coal-face with a lot of really good credits in TV and feature films. Unlike many screenwriting books, he writes from a position of authority - and it shows -- Philip Shelley * Script Consultant *an insightful guide that prompts readers to think for themselves -- Dominic Carver * The Scriptwriter *'a really interesting mix of theoretical study and practical experience...Highly recommended for both beginners and experienced writers' * Write So Fluid *Brilliant and original...far and away the best writing guide I've read. It should become must reading for all of us, students and tutors alike -- Paul Bryers - award winning writer, filmmaker and producerone of the most beautifully written books about screenwriting that I've ever read * Scriptangel *
£19.79
UEA Publishing Project UEA MA Scriptwriting Anthology 2022
Book Synopsis2022 edition of the UEA MA Scriptwriting creative writing course anthology
£999.99
Rainer Hampp Fuhrung Und Management in Den Unendlichen Weiten:
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£29.52
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.
£13.49
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.
£20.70
Rutgers University Press The Writers A History of American Screenwriters
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A monumental task—no one has ever tackled anything like this in writing about writers. Well done." -- Mel Brooks“A comprehensive tome that will be appreciated by the film and TV writers who wrote, are still writing, or will someday write.” -- Carl Reiner * Director, Writer, Actor *"A beautifully researched history. Miranda Banks digs deep into the archives to bring out a very powerful, moving--and, at times, gossipy--history of Hollywood and the writers who make it all possible." -- Matt Tyrnauer * director, "Valentino The Last Emperor" *"An original and immensely interesting book, addressing a topic of both scholarly and general interest." -- Charles Wolfe * University of California-Santa Barbara *"What an important story Miranda Banks tells, and how brilliantly she tells it. The voices of hundreds of writers shine through this history of a neglected but crucial sector of Hollywood production culture. A vital contribution to the field." -- Michele Hilmes * University of Wisconsin-Madison *"Well-informed survey of film and TV writers’ decadeslong battle to defend their economic and creative interests. Banks writes lucidly about complex financial and technical issues, giving a solid, unromantic sense of working writers’ lives." * Kirkus Reviews *"Banks uncovers the role the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has played in the entertainment industry. With accounts from more than 200 writers and solid access to the Writers Guild Foundation, the book discusses the importance of authorship, name recognition, and membership boundaries. [The Writers] presents a previously lacking exploration of writers and the WGA itself, particularly educating readers on the precedents set for other entertainment guilds. Highly recommended for film buffs and aspiring screenwriters." * Library Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 The Artist Employee2 Two Front Lines3 The Infant Prodigy4 Mavericks5 ConfederationConclusionAppendix A: Screen Writers and Selected CreditsAppendix B: MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex
£35.10
Rutgers University Press The Writers A History of American Screenwriters
Book SynopsisOffers the only comprehensive qualitative analysis of the history of writers and writing in the film, television, and streaming media industries in America. Featuring in-depth interviews with over fifty writers, The Writers delivers a compelling, behind-the-scenes look at the role and rights of writers in Hollywood and New York over the past century.Trade Review"A monumental task—no one has ever tackled anything like this in writing about writers. Well done." -- Mel Brooks“A comprehensive tome that will be appreciated by the film and TV writers who wrote, are still writing, or will someday write.” -- Carl Reiner * Director, Writer, Actor *"An original and immensely interesting book, addressing a topic of both scholarly and general interest." -- Charles Wolfe * University of California-Santa Barbara *"What an important story Miranda Banks tells, and how brilliantly she tells it. The voices of hundreds of writers shine through this history of a neglected but crucial sector of Hollywood production culture. A vital contribution to the field." -- Michele Hilmes * University of Wisconsin-Madison *"A beautifully researched history. Miranda Banks digs deep into the archives to bring out a very powerful, moving--and, at times, gossipy--history of Hollywood and the writers who make it all possible." -- Matt Tyrnauer * director, "Valentino The Last Emperor" *"Well-informed survey of film and TV writers’ decadeslong battle to defend their economic and creative interests. Banks writes lucidly about complex financial and technical issues, giving a solid, unromantic sense of working writers’ lives." * Kirkus Reviews *"Banks uncovers the role the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has played in the entertainment industry. With accounts from more than 200 writers and solid access to the Writers Guild Foundation, the book discusses the importance of authorship, name recognition, and membership boundaries. [The Writers] presents a previously lacking exploration of writers and the WGA itself, particularly educating readers on the precedents set for other entertainment guilds. Highly recommended for film buffs and aspiring screenwriters." * Library Journal *"[The Writers] is an important contribution to Hollywood history, to studies of the labour movement in the United States, and to explorations of cultural labour. It is an entertaining and compelling story of what is special about artists as workers and what is common to all workers faced with the volatile labour relations of modern neoliberal capitalism." * Labour/Le Travail *"A monumental task—no one has ever tackled anything like this in writing about writers. Well done." -- Mel Brooks“A comprehensive tome that will be appreciated by the film and TV writers who wrote, are still writing, or will someday write.” -- Carl Reiner * Director, Writer, Actor *"An original and immensely interesting book, addressing a topic of both scholarly and general interest." -- Charles Wolfe * University of California-Santa Barbara *"What an important story Miranda Banks tells, and how brilliantly she tells it. The voices of hundreds of writers shine through this history of a neglected but crucial sector of Hollywood production culture. A vital contribution to the field." -- Michele Hilmes * University of Wisconsin-Madison *"A beautifully researched history. Miranda Banks digs deep into the archives to bring out a very powerful, moving--and, at times, gossipy--history of Hollywood and the writers who make it all possible." -- Matt Tyrnauer * director, "Valentino The Last Emperor" *"Well-informed survey of film and TV writers’ decadeslong battle to defend their economic and creative interests. Banks writes lucidly about complex financial and technical issues, giving a solid, unromantic sense of working writers’ lives." * Kirkus Reviews *"Banks uncovers the role the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has played in the entertainment industry. With accounts from more than 200 writers and solid access to the Writers Guild Foundation, the book discusses the importance of authorship, name recognition, and membership boundaries. [The Writers] presents a previously lacking exploration of writers and the WGA itself, particularly educating readers on the precedents set for other entertainment guilds. Highly recommended for film buffs and aspiring screenwriters." * Library Journal *"[The Writers] is an important contribution to Hollywood history, to studies of the labour movement in the United States, and to explorations of cultural labour. It is an entertaining and compelling story of what is special about artists as workers and what is common to all workers faced with the volatile labour relations of modern neoliberal capitalism." * Labour/Le Travail *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The Artist Employee 2 Two Front Lines 3 The Infant Prodigy 4 Mavericks 5 Confederation Conclusion Appendix A: Screen Writers and Selected CreditsAppendix B: MethodologyNotesBibliographyIndex
£28.80
Wayne State University Press The West Wing TV Milestones Series
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£16.15
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
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£19.11
Taylor & Francis Creating Dialogue for TV
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£999.99
Cambridge University Press Hauntology Nostalgia and New Music
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£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
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£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
