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From the early stages of script writing to the final cut, We Have Some Notes provides a detailed overview of the script editing and development pro...

From the early stages of script writing to the final cut, We Have Some Notes provides a detailed overview of the script editing and development pro...

This unique book explores the social processes which shape fictional representations of police and crime in television dramas. Exploring ten leadin...

A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industrys most powerful figures in ...

A screenwriter, novelist, labor leader, Hollywood insider, and feminist, Mary C. McCall Jr. was one of the film industrys most powerful figures in ...

Screenwriters and Screenwriting is an innovative, fresh and lively book that is useful for both screenwriting practice and academic study. It is in...

Screenwriting in a Digital Era examines the practices of writing for the screen from early Hollywood to the new realism. Looking back to prehistori...

Makes an excellent case for Parrott as an unjustly forgotten historical figure.The New YorkerRemind[s] us of the brazenly talented women sidelined ...

Adaptation was central to André Bazins lifelong query: What is cinema? Placing films alongside literature allowed him to identify the aesthetic and...

Designed to take you from the moment you first put your pen to paper to pitching and selling your completed screenplay, this is one of the most ins...

A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range o...

The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...

The screenplay is currently the focus of extensive critical re-evaluation, however, as yet there has been no comprehensive study of its historical ...

A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. I...

Screenwriting Market Intel You Won't Find Anywhere ElseMailing out submissions based on some contact information you found on the Internet isnt eno...

A couple of generations ago, the movie industry ran on gut instinct--film schools, audience research departments and seminars on screenwriting w...

Writing for the Screen is a collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of screenwriting. This highly accessible guide to working in...

Why Plot Never Matters: Telling the Screen Stories in Your Heartis designed to fill a significant and widely ignored gap between the theory and the...

In the words of novelist Harlan Ellison, The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer. New York Times bestselling author and B...

You Talkin' to Me? is a fun, fascinating, and exhaustively reported look at all the iconic Hollywood movie quotes we know and love, from Casablanca...

'Illuminating . . . there is never a dull moment' - The Times'Marvellous . . . full of riches' - New StatesmanDavid Milch is the critically acclaim...