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Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice analyzes the histories, practices, identities and subjects which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters.Author Bridget Conor considers the ways in which contemporary screenwriter..
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The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an often-overlooked tool that can be key in solving this problem. A screenplay can..
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A substantial update of the previous edition, Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach deconstructs recent feature films and offers a new section analysing popular television series. A proven screenwriting method in emotionally engaging an audience, the seque..
Release Date:- 2013-11-23
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Revised and updated for the second edition! Understanding screencraft just got even easier. This simplified 4-chapter edition of "Screenwriting Down to the Atoms" (full 14-chapter edition available for $6.99) hand-picks the most essential sections of..
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For decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the secrets of his course on the screenwriting process by actually..
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An essential handbook featuring never-before-published writing exercises from the acclaimed screenwriters of Raging Bull, Ali, Terminator 2, Fame, Groundhog Day, Cape Fear, "Lost", "True Blood", "The Shield", and many other hit films and television shows. ..
Release Date:- 2019-10-18
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3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Write a Screenplay, Story Structure and Character Development! Book 1) How to Write a Screenplay: Step-by-Step | Essential Screenplay Format, Scriptwriter and Modern Screenplay Writing Tricks Any Writer Can Learn Behi..
Release Date:- 2014-01-20
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Those who canāt doā¦ teach.This old adage has ended up being true with past books about teaching screenwriting. The authors of those books had no real industry experience as working screenwriters. Or their experience was so old, what they had to te..
Release Date:- 1984-06-10
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Hollywoodās script guru teaches you how to write a screenplay in āthe ābibleā of screenwritingā (The New York Times)ānow celebrating over forty years of screenwriting success!Syd Fieldās books on the essential structure of emotionally satisfying..
Release Date:- 2008-10-14
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John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his..
Release Date:- 2010-06-29
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Hollywood's premier teacher of screenwriting shares the secrets of writing and selling successful screenplays in this perfect gift for aspiring screenwriters. Anyone fortunate enough to win a seat in Professor Richard Walter's legendary class at UCLA film..
Release Date:- 2016-07-16
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Deleuze and Aristotle applied to the imagination through screenwriting, a thesis for students of arts, will enthuse and inform aspirations in screenwriting and philosophy. Aimed at creative writers who wish to write a thesis or simply understand and appreciate..
Release Date:- 2013-06-04
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Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture is universally recognized as the greatest, most outrageous, and most unforgettable show business memoir ever written. The basis of an award-winning documentary film, it remains the gold standard of Hollywood..
Release Date:- 2004-09-23
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In The Power of the Actor, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood.The first book from the instructor..
Release Date:- 1987-07-12
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Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This book follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary..
Release Date:- 2024-09-03
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AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICKA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024A WASHINGTON POST TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEARāA laugh-out-loud cultural comedyā¦ This is the New Great American Novel, and Danzy Senna has set..
Release Date:- 2018-10-09
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The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success.Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that ..
Release Date:- 2012-07-10
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This guide reveals how writers can utilize cognitive storytelling strategies to craft stories that ignite readersā brains and captivate them through each plot element.Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the suc..
Release Date:- 2024-07-09
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The instant USA Today bestseller by Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead. Named one of the Best Horror Books of 2024 by Esquire and Library Journal!"Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, Bury Your Gay..
Release Date:- 2019-03-10
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3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Write a Screenplay, Plotting and Character Development! Book 1) How to Write a Screenplay: Step-by-Step | Essential Screenplay Format, Scriptwriter and Modern Screenplay Writing Tricks Any Writer Can Learn Behi..
Release Date:- 2013-06-27
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The 10th anniversary edition, now with a new preface by the author"A wonderfully smart, lively, and culturally astute survey." - The New York Times Book Review"Grand entertainment...fascinating for anyone curious about the perplexing miracles of how gr..
Release Date:- 2011-06-21
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"If you liked Eat, Pray, Love, then read Groundswell." āUS Weekly (Essential Summer Read selection)A "compulsively readable novel charting the highs and lows of love" (Jen Lancaster) about a young woman recovering from divorce who finds healingāand roman..
Release Date:- 2015-04-23
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An intimate peek into the process of writing a screenplay, from A to Z, with nothing held back.Based on actual class lectures and assignments, Finish the Script! offers an inside look into the screenwriting process as it's author writes a s..
Release Date:- 2012-11-27
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The authoritative guide to producing, directing, shooting, editing, and distributing your video or film. Whether you aspire to be a great filmmaker yourself or are looking for movie gifts, this comprehensive guide to filmmaking is the first step in tu..
Release Date:- 2017-05-02
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This dazzling collection of four stories features characters bound together by their parallel moments of reckoning with their pastsāand proves the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls is also a master of the short story. āBeautifulā..
Release Date:- 2022-04-26
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The Moth āFrom toasts to eulogies, from job interviews to social events,..
Release Date:- 2016-01-28
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If there is one skill that separates the professional screenwriter from the amateur, it is the ability to rewrite successfully. From Jack Epps, Jr., the screenwriter of Top Gun, Dick Tracy, and The Secret of My Success, comes a comprehensive guide that..
Release Date:- 2024-02-13
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER āThis funny, insightful, and deliciously dishy memoirā (Town & Country) from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, and Glory, creator..
Release Date:- 2002-10-08
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The most innovative and creative screenwriting book yet, from an author who knows first-hand what it takes to get a movie made.Based on an award-winning website hailed as "smart enough for professional screenwriters and accessible enough for aspiring scree..
Release Date:- 2000-11-09
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This guide is for anyone who has ever thought of screenwriting. Written by someone who has "been there, done that," and lived to tell the tale, it reveals the most popular genres, explains how stories need to be structured for feature films and TV movies,..