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Book SynopsisThe BAFTA and Academy Award-winning screenplay, “a drama of surpassing beauty” (Wall Street Journal)

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Book SynopsisWith over 4,000 outlets worldwide and growing, audio drama is the new frontier in storytelling. From family dramas tales to epic space battles and period pieces to large-cast musicals, it is a medium without limits, because the audience creates the visual world in their mind. In Stories Told through Sound, audio-dramatist Barry M. Putt, Jr. lays out the essentials of the form in an engaging, easy-to-understand manner. He offers dozens of tactics and strategies: the top reasons audiences don't connect with a character and how to avoid them, ways to create exciting plot twists, career pitfalls to watch out for, and how to draft a dynamic marketing plan that will keep your work in the forefront of any industry professional's mind. It includes tips from a number of top-tier professionals to help give a deeper understanding of how to find success in a new and exciting creative industry.Dust off that story idea you've been wanting to develop and learn how to craft an engaging scrip

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Book SynopsisYou’re nicked is the first comprehensive study of television police series in the UK. It shows 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 methodological 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. A must-have for scholars and students of British history, television, sociology and criminology, the book will also be of interest to crime-drama enthusiasts worldwide.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, allIndex

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Book SynopsisA Guide to Screenwriting Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of writing—and rewriting—a screenplay or teleplay and writing for digital content. Duncan's handy book teaches new screenwriters the process of creating a professional screenplay from beginning to end. It shows that inspiration, creativity, and good writing are not elusive concepts but attainable goals that any motivated person can aspire to. Duncan includes sections on all aspects of screenwriting—from character development to story templates—and breaks down the three acts of a screenplay into manageable pieces. A Guide to Screenwriting Success contains dozens of exercises to help writers through these steps. The second half of Duncan's practical book covers another, often overlooked, side of screenwriting—the teleplay. Aspiring writers who also want to try their hand at writing for television will need to learn the specifics of the field. The book breaks down this area into two parts, the one-hour teleplay and the situation comedy. There is a section on writing and producing digital content that embraces the “Do It Yourself” attitude to approaching a career in the entertainment industry. Success in screenwriting is no longer a dream but an achievable goal for those who pick up Duncan's guide.

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Book SynopsisA Guide to Screenwriting Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of writing—and rewriting—a screenplay or teleplay and writing for digital content. Duncan's handy book teaches new screenwriters the process of creating a professional screenplay from beginning to end. It shows that inspiration, creativity, and good writing are not elusive concepts but attainable goals that any motivated person can aspire to. Duncan includes sections on all aspects of screenwriting—from character development to story templates—and breaks down the three acts of a screenplay into manageable pieces. A Guide to Screenwriting Success contains dozens of exercises to help writers through these steps. The second half of Duncan's practical book covers another, often overlooked, side of screenwriting—the teleplay. Aspiring writers who also want to try their hand at writing for television will need to learn the specifics of the field. The book breaks down this area into two parts, the one-hour teleplay and the situation comedy. There is a section on writing and producing digital content that embraces the “Do It Yourself” attitude to approaching a career in the entertainment industry. Success in screenwriting is no longer a dream but an achievable goal for those who pick up Duncan's guide.

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Book SynopsisThe only companion book to Paul Thomas Anderson''s acclaimed 1999 film, Magnolia: The Illustrated Screenplay includes the complete shooting script, introduction and script notes by Anderson, an interview with the writer/director, and complete cast and crew credits.Anderson deliberately withheld information about his new film during production because “I feel lately as if I know everything about a movie before I see it, and I really want the audience to discover this purely.” Featuring an ensemble cast and, in an unbilled role, Tom Cruise (who called Anderson to express interest in working with him), the film is now described by New Line as follows:There are stories of coincidence and chance and intersections and strange things told. There is the story of a Dying Father, the Young Wife, his Lost Son, the Caretaker, the Boy Genius, his Father, the Game Show Host, the Daughter, the Mother, the Ex-Boy Genius and the Police Officer in Love.There are nine plots that tell one story, set in the San Fernando Valley on a day full of rain with no clouds.Along with the story of a pharmacist in London, a scuba diver and an accidental suicide, this is the story of “Magnolia.” This is a story about family relationships and bonds that have been broken and need to be mended in one day.

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Book SynopsisA rich, fact-filled collectible, packed with vibrant history, amazing trivia, and rare photographs, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia, assembled with the full cooperation of the Rod Serling estate, includes biographies of every principal actor involved in the series and hundreds who toiled behind the scenes—producers, writers, and directors. It is an exhaustive and engrossing guide, a compendium of credits, plot synopses, anecdotes, production details, never-before-seen images, and interviews with nearly everyone still alive who was associated with the show.Trade Review"Absolutely impossible to put down. With his well-earned reputation for thorough research, Steve Rubin has crafted a compendium that will be both useful and enjoyable for fans of The Twilight Zone and anyone who loves vintage television." Leonard Maltin, New York Times bestselling author, historian, and film critic"Steven Rubin has managed to write a book that will enthrall a Twilight Zone newbie as well as the hardcore fan. Meticulously researched and endlessly entertaining, it's a veritable Everything You Wanted to Know About 'The Twilight Zone' but Were Afraid to Ask . You'll want to have the book close by next time you watch an episode of the Rod Serling classic on television." Susan King, staff writer, Los Angeles Times , film and television historian"This monumental book is required reading for all devotees of The Twilight Zone . It's a combination bible, guidebook, dictionary, and encyclopedia and should be on the library shelf of all fans and scholars." Carol Serling, widow of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling"An incredible treasure trove of details and crucial information you never knew you needed, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia is lovingly researched, written, and presented. This book is a true gift to all fans of what is, arguably, the greatest series to ever grace the airwaves." J. J. Abrams"Slip into another dimension with this expansive guide on everything Twilight Zone. From tidbits and trivia even the most stalwart fan will be impressed by, and chock full of rare photos and episode guides covering every inch of the storied CBS program, The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia is made 'to serve man' indeed." Geeks of Doom"fans of the original series will lose a few hours flipping through this thorough, lovingly created book." Booklist"The most fun to be had with The Twilight Zone Encyclopedia , aside from the archival joys of reading Rubin's detailed biographies of cast members is found in the entries for broadly generic themes like "Children," "Aliens," "Nostalgia," "Eccentrics," and "Monsters." Each of these meditates on a given subject's representation in the show, imparting a nutshell census of about a page and a half that both speaks to the varied depiction of, say, "Obsession" or "Disappearances," and makes for perfect marathon binging-by-topic." NYR Daily

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Book SynopsisWith a foreword by Diane Negra and Jorie Lagerway As television has finally started to create more leading roles for women, the female antiheroine has emerged as a compelling and dynamic character type. Television Antiheroines looks closely at this recent development, exploring the emergence of women characters in roles typically reserved for men, particularly in the male-dominated genre of the crime and prison drama. The essays collected in Television Antiheroines are divided into four sections or types of characters: mafia women, drug dealers and aberrant mothers, women in prison, and villainesses. Looking specifically at shows such as Gomorrah, Mafiosa, The Wire, The Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy, Orange is the New Black, and Antimafia Squad, the contributors explore the role of race and sexuality and focus on how many of the characters transgress traditional ideas about femininity and female identity, such as motherhood. They examine the ways in which bad women are portrayed and how these characters undermine gender expectations and reveal the current challenges by women to social and economic norms. Television Antiheroines will be essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in crime and prison drama and the rising prominence of women in nontraditional roles.Trade Review'This vital collection profitably meditates on the intersections of crime studies, feminist and postfeminist studies and television studies, and shines a light on the expanding representational possibilities for women that are taking place in global television production. [...] I suspect that Television Antiheroines will enjoy widespread adoption as a text in a number of university courses for differing constituencies of students. The essays all feature clear and accessible prose and, further, the breadth and array of the texts, and detailed bibliography for each essay, will make the collection interesting for media studies scholars (feminist or otherwise) working on a spectrum of contexts.' -- Ellen Nerenberg, Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies'Thanks to its cultural approach, Television Antiheroines depicts in an original way the possibilities opened up by ‘bad’ behaviours in mainstream images of femininity. Each chapter analyses characters’ everyday lives, underlining how micropolitics questions conventional gender roles. Such a subversive process is also sustained by the idea that the representation of moral and behavioural contradictions undermines the hegemonic positions still dominant in television series. In doing so, the volume also shows how television can produce alternative identity models for women, thus contributing to a redefinition of current gender paradigms.' -- Ilaria De Pascalis, European Journal of Women’s Studies'I began this review by querying whether the antiheroine exists; after spending time with Television Antiheroines, and becoming well acquainted with Rosy Abate, Imma Savastano, Sandra Paoli, Carmela Soprano, Carmen van Walraven, Nancy Botwin, Gemma Teller, Mags Bennett, Teresa Mendoza, Big Boo, Nicky Nichols, Livia Marine, Kate Leigh, Tillly Devine, and others, I have no doubt of the socio-cultural richness and transcultural purchase of the TV antiheroine. In identifying a significant new trend in the transnational televisual depiction of gender, power, crime, and identity, Television Antiheroines sets high standards for future feminist media scholarship on female antihero TV.' -- Tanya Horeck, Feminist Media Studies'The television series examined make for good television and the chapters in this volume make for an interesting read, both individually and taken together. With its unprecedented collective focus on anti-heroines in the business of crime, the edited volume offers critical insights in largely well written articles that will allow readers to discover or perhaps reevaluate how women behaving badly contribute to an expanded realm of possibility for female characters in popular culture.' -- Claudia Schippert * Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture *'[T]his collection of high-minded studies aims to examine how women have been allowed to travel in the same trajectory (the new “golden age of television” started by show-runners like David Chase and Vince Gilligan) gave way to equally strong visionaries like Jenji Kohan (Weeds, Orange Is the New Black) and numerous telenovelas in Brazil, Colombia, and New Zealand.' -- Popmatters, Christopher John Stevens'Television Antiheroines: Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama is a strong collection of academic scholarship, and is a required purchase for scholars whose research relates to gender roles and female agency, particular in television. The book will undoubtedly serve graduate students and established professionals in the fields of critical, cultural and media studies very well. These 13 essays are highly detailed and effortlessly engaging. Through examination of antiheroines such as The Sopranos’ Carmela Soprano and Weeds’ Nancy Botswin, as well as foreign protagonists such as Penoza’s Carmen Walraven and the Spanish-language La Reina del Sur’s Teresa Mendoza, Television Antiheroines: Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama raises intriguing and timely questions regarding feminism and female identity.' -- Graeme Wilson, Critical Studies in Media Communication'The contributors to the book successfully manage to ‘explore atypical portrayals of femininity’ (p. 4) from an international perspective, which is their joint goal as outlined in the Editor’s Introduction. Written for a wide contemporary readership, the book will be of practical use to students of communication and media studies and must not be overlooked by academic philosophers inasmuch as the authors’ discussions contribute to debates on the ontological and existential structures of human existence.' -- Elena Fell, European Journal of Communication'With so many television series circulating the airwaves and beyond, it can be challenging to find those worthy enough to fill our precious leisure time. Thankfully Milly Buonanno’s edited collection of essays not only draws our attention to the contemporary television landscape’s changing typography, but it is also a useful resource for those looking for their next binge-worthy programme. The book’s emphasis on ‘female-centred forms with a particular focus on the liminality of women associated with criminality’ (xi) historicises the range of unconventional portrayals of womanhood in the 21st century, defines these depictions in terms of their antiheroine aspects and investigates some specific international instantiations.' -- ichael P Young, Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies'Italian scholar Milly Buonanno of Rome’s La Sapienza University has often complained that, in this second Golden Age of TV, academic attention is focused almost exclusively on the United States. Even in a country like Spain, newspa- pers dutifully recap each episode of American premium- cable and streaming-service series while ignoring their own local productions. Hence, the importance of Buonanno’s new collection Television Antiheroines: Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama, which tracks its female figures on screens from Italy and France to Australia and Brazil.' -- Paul Julian Smith, Film Quarterly'Milly Buonanno’s anthology, Television Antiheroines: Women Behaving Badly in Crime and Prison Drama, explores depictions of unconventional womanhood in twenty-first-century television. It investigates how heteronormative ideologies of gender are challenged as female characters transgress feminine norms of passivity, purity, motherhood, goodness and caring. Split into four sections with thirteen contributions, the book sets out to analyse the figure of the antiheroine in international programming by investigating the transgressive possibilities enabled when characters refuse to socially conform to the laws of society, gender and the criminal underworld.' -- Katherine Whitehurst, Journal of Popular TelevisionTable of ContentsPart I: Mafia Women Buonanno, Villez, Akass and McCabe Chapter 1: Godmothers in Italian Mafia Story: Or 'Something Else Besides a Mother' Milly Buonanno Chapter 2: Mafiosa, Monstruous Beauty: Power and Loneliness of a Female Mob Leader Barbara Villez Chapter 3: Adieu Carmela Soprano! Lessons from the HBO Mobster Wife on TV Female Agency and Neo-Liberal (Narrative) Power Kim Akass and Janet McCabe Part II: Drug Dealers and Aberrant Mothers Hermes, Giomi, Lotz and Rivero Paying the Price: Penoza – Combining Motherhood anf a Career (in Crime) Joke Hermes 'Really Good At It': The Viral Charge of Nancy Botwin in Weeds (and Popular Culture's Anticorps) Elisa Giomi Really Bad Mothers: Manipulative Matriarchs in Sons of Anarchy and Justified Amanda D. Lotz La reina del sur: Teresa Mendoza, a New Telenovela Protagonist Yeidy M. Rivero Part III: Women in Prison Ball, Turnball and Walters Chapter 8: Blurred Lines: The Queer World of Bad Girls Vicky Ball Chapter 9: Top Dogs and Other Freaks: Wentworth and the Re-imaging of Prisoner Cell Block H Sue Turnball Chapter 10: Lesbian Request Approved: Sex, Power and Desire in Orange is the New Black Suzanna Danuta Walters Part IV: Villainesses and Anti-antiheroines Joyce, La Pastina, Williams, Press and Redhead Chapter 11: Women and Criminality in Brazilian Telenovelas: Salve Jorge and Human Trafficking Samantha Joyce and Antonio Las Pastina 'Your Turn, Girl': The (Im)Possibility of African American Antiheroines in The Wire Bruce A. Williams and Andrea L. Press Taming Pussytown: How Post-feminism Domesticated Underbelly: Razor Leigh Redhead

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Book SynopsisWinter is coming. Every Sunday night, millions of fans gather around their televisions to take in the spectacle that is a new episode of Game of Thrones. Much is made of who will be gruesomely murdered each week on the hit show, though sometimes the question really is who won’t die a fiery death. The show, based on the Song of Fire and Ice series written by George R. R. Martin, is a truly global phenomenon. With the seventh season of the HBO series in production, Game of Thrones has been nominated for multiple awards, its cast has been catapulted to celebrity and references to it proliferate throughout popular culture. Often positioned as the grittier antithesis to J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, Martin’s narrative focuses on the darker side of chivalry and heroism, stripping away these higher ideals to reveal the greed, amorality and lust for power underpinning them. Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones is an exciting new addition to the Intellect series, bringing together academics and fans of Martin’s universe to consider not just the content of the books and HBO series, but fan responses to both. From trivia nights dedicated to minutiae to forums speculating on plot twists to academics trying to make sense of the bizarre climate of Westeros, everyone is talking about Game of Thrones. Edited by Kavita Mudan Finn, the book focuses on the communities created by the books and television series and how these communities envision themselves as consumers, critics and even creators of fanworks in a wide variety of media, including fiction, art, fancasting and cosplay.Trade Review'Through its focus on the cultural phenomenon that is Game of Thrones, Finn’s collection is a timely exploration of the ways in which audiences not just consume but interact with cultural texts in the social media age.' -- Aimee Burns, Media Education JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction Kavita Mudan Finn Cosplay of Thrones: Recreating the Costumes of Westeros Caitlin Postal A Song of Toys and T-Shirts: Game of Thrones and it's Cultural Artefacts Andrew Howe 'Growing Strong': Expanding the Game of Thrones Universe through Fan-Made Merchendizing Julie Escurignan Kavita Mudan Finn Alio Garcia and Linda Antonsson Amanda GiGioia Game of Thrones on Kinja Tracey J. Pennington Game of Thrones on Meta Tumblr Kristie Betts Letter Geeks Who Drink Jeffrey Chown Scholars of the Throne The Watchers on the Wall: Game of Thrones and Online Fan Speculation Rose Butler Restoring the Balance: Feminist Meta: Texts and the Productivity of Tumblr's Game of Thrones Fans Briony Linder A Stark by Any Other Name: A Comparative Analysis of A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones Folksonomies Kristin Linder A Fan's Got to Have a Code: Evolving Perspectives on the Hound's Violence and Sexuality Beth Walker Colouring Outside the Lines: Social Justice and Fandom H. Kapp-Klote Unbowed, Unbent, Unaccepted: Disputing Women's Roles in Game of Thrones Janice Liedl Learn to Fight with Your Other Hand: Game of Thrones as Complicated Champion of Disability Courtney Stanton Game of Thrones in India: Of Piracy, Queer Intimacies and Viral Memes Rohit K. Dasgupta By the Old Gods and the New: Daily Interactions with Game of Thrones Jennifer Crumley and Amy Stavola Geeks of Thrones: Scientists as Fan Scholars Kristine Larsen

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Book SynopsisThe goal of this book is to guide writers toward creating more authenticity in visual storytelling. One of the needs for art is the mirror, a reflection of human existence and what is glorious, tragic, wonderful, and funny about life. In an age of “post-truth,” where derivative and grotesquely bogus stories are abundant, globally networked, and digitally streamed, this book examines what it means to both artists and audiences when the mirror is consistently distorted, inaccurate, and biased. The book offers a guide for finding authenticity in fictional narrative, regardless of genre or form. The book is intended as a compass for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create. One element that sets this book apart from others is the use of storyboarding to explain ideas. There are many books that teach fundamentals of writing and producing for the screen, promising the reader great success through formula. This book is a guide for writers in finding their unique creative voice. While the emphasis of this book is on creating scripts intended for production of moving image media, the guide can be adapted to the creativity of various types of storytellers working in a variety of media fields. Trade Review“Emily Edwards offers a fresh approach to ideation and the development of screenplays, laying out existing character types and genres and suggesting ways to mix them up in unique and interesting ways. She also emphasizes the pursuit of truth in fiction that can be more truthful than the recitation of facts.” — Paul Gulino, Professor, Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Chapman University, US“This is a smartly written, comprehensive book that includes many nuances of screenwriting that other guides ignore.” —Evan Smith, Newhouse School at Syracuse University, US“The overriding thesis of bringing truth to the writing experience, and having that truth reside in someone’s experience, or life, makes this book a valuable contribution to the field.”—Bob Arnett, Old Dominion University, USTable of ContentsList of Illustrations; 1. Truth and the Search for Story; 2. Creating Authentic Characters; 3. The Shapes of Visual Narrative; 4. The Structures of Time and Perspective; 5. Outlines and the Spines of Stories; 6. The Truths of Style and Format; 7. Guarded Dialogue and Candid Silence; 8. The Scene and the Story; 9. Honest Revisions; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe goal of this book is to guide writers toward creating more authenticity in visual storytelling. One of the needs for art is the mirror, a reflection of human existence and what is glorious, tragic, wonderful, and funny about life. In an age of “post-truth,” where derivative and grotesquely bogus stories are abundant, globally networked, and digitally streamed, this book examines what it means to both artists and audiences when the mirror is consistently distorted, inaccurate, and biased. The book offers a guide for finding authenticity in fictional narrative, regardless of genre or form. The book is intended as a compass for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create. One element that sets this book apart from others is the use of storyboarding to explain ideas. There are many books that teach fundamentals of writing and producing for the screen, promising the reader great success through formula. This book is a guide for writers in finding their unique creative voice. While the emphasis of this book is on creating scripts intended for production of moving image media, the guide can be adapted to the creativity of various types of storytellers working in a variety of media fields. Trade Review“Emily Edwards offers a fresh approach to ideation and the development of screenplays, laying out existing character types and genres and suggesting ways to mix them up in unique and interesting ways. She also emphasizes the pursuit of truth in fiction that can be more truthful than the recitation of facts.” — Paul Gulino, Professor, Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Chapman University, US“This is a smartly written, comprehensive book that includes many nuances of screenwriting that other guides ignore.” —Evan Smith, Newhouse School at Syracuse University, US“The overriding thesis of bringing truth to the writing experience, and having that truth reside in someone’s experience, or life, makes this book a valuable contribution to the field.”—Bob Arnett, Old Dominion University, USTable of ContentsList of Illustrations; 1. Truth and the Search for Story; 2. Creating Authentic Characters; 3. The Shapes of Visual Narrative; 4. The Structures of Time and Perspective; 5. Outlines and the Spines of Stories; 6. The Truths of Style and Format; 7. Guarded Dialogue and Candid Silence; 8. The Scene and the Story; 9. Honest Revisions; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Clangers memorably spoke in a language played on swannee whistles.No one expected them to have scripts.But they did.Within an ancient barn nestled in the heart of the Kent countryside, Smallfilms founders Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin created one of the most beloved BBC children’s series of the twentieth century: Clangers.Clangers: The Complete Scripts 1969–1974 is the ultimate compendium of scripts from the original two series of the show in one lavishly illustrated volume. These previously unseen scripts sit alongside original writing from Daniel Postgate – son of the original creator Oliver Postgate – exploring the inspiration for and lasting cultural impact of the show, new and historical photographs, Peter’s original illustrations, Oliver’s handwritten musical notations and more.The joyful revelation that the Clangers’ often colourful words were scripted in English brings an exciting new dimension to the Smallfilms legacy.

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Book SynopsisScript Readers play a crucial role in the film industry, often responsible for determining whether a script is even looked at by a producer or development executive; yet those accountable for reading can be on the first rung of the industry ladder and have had little or no training for the task. This user-friendly 'how-to' guide written by one of the UK's leading script analysis specialists, lays bare the process of analysing film scripts. This is invaluable to anyone looking to work as a script reader, anyone who wants to work in development with writers, and for screenwriters themselves who are seeking guidance on how the industry might respond to their work. An essential reference tool, the book includes information on: How to write a brilliant script report Storytelling and screen genres Treatments and other short documents Writing clear and detailed analysis of the craft of storytelling for film Best practice in reading and reporting on scripts It also includes a full Resource Section listing useful print and online publications, organisations and associations.Trade Reviewit is such a worthwhile read -- Lucy V Hay * bang2write *Lucy Scher seeks to explain the skills needed to take on the vital role of script reader in the film industry -- Leo White * Kamera Film Salon *an ideal reference tool for anyone considering a career as a script reader or in film development * Moviescope *

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Book Synopsis2022 edition of the UEA MA Scriptwriting creative writing course anthology

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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.”

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