Category: Screenwriting Books
March
13
2010
- ISBN13: 9780312293444
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Author, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter, David Mamet is often referred to as the quintessential American writer. His works are known for their clever and terse dialogue and have earned him a Pulitzer Prize for Glengarry Glen Ross and Oscar nominations for House of Games as well as The Spanish Prisoner, Wag the Dog, and The Verdict. This comprehensive biography uses extensive theater and film archives to reveal in detail his ideas on writing–including the genesis for many of his plays–acting, and directing. Beginning with
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March
12
2010
- ISBN13: 9781581824551
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Earl Hamner, a Virginia native, is one of America’s best-loved storytellers, but he has never been the subject of a full-length study. EARL HAMNER: FROM WALTON’S MOUNTAIN TO TOMORROW fills that gap.
Hamner once said, “Even though families are said to be shattered these days, and God is said to be dead, if people can revisit the scenes and places where these values did exist, possibly they can come to believe in them again, or…to adapt some kind of belief in God, or faith…
March
11
2010
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Reader and audience appeal, global constraints, large-scale desiderata, dynamics, consummation scenes, characters, relationships, structure, embodiment, voice, the line level. Developing and testing a theory of writing. Discusses such topics as originality, credibility, contrivance, crudeness, monotony, repetition. Story appeal, story impact. Threat, hope, need to know, tension and pace. Character realization, character identification, character appeal, repellant characters, character change, character and dynamics, a group as a character. The reality of relationships, the identity of relationships, the appeal of relationships, relationships and dynamics. Architecture, design, types of structure, sequential structuring, story steps, the set-up, openings, endings. Embodiment, scene appeal, scene…
March
10
2010
- ISBN13: 9780440504900
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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An analysis of Thelma and Louise, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances With Wolves provides tips on script writing for original productions, sequels, novel adaptations, and adaptations by original authors.
March
9
2010
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A tight, well-crafted book outlining the techniques applied to writing the Great American novel, the blockbuster screenplay or any other area of storytelling one might wish to pursue.
March
8
2010
- ISBN13: 9780240807362
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The vast majority of screenplay and writing books focus on story development and have little to say about the initial concept that generated the piece. Developing Story Ideas offers writers a spectrum of resources and a structure of writing practice so that anyone can quickly and reliably generate a wide variety of stories in a broad range of forms. It first shows you how to observe situations, acts, and themes-and use these observations as the basis for storytelling. Exercises and projects help you draw…
March
7
2010
- ISBN13: 9780471225454
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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From concept to finished draft–a nuts-and-bolts approach to adaptations
Aspiring and established screenwriters everywhere, take note! This down-to-earth guide is the first to clearly articulate the craft of adaptation. Drawing on his own experience and on fourteen years of teaching, screenwriter Richard Krevolin presents his proven five-step process for adapting anything–from novels and short stories to newspaper articles and poems–into a screenplay. Used by thousands of novelists, playwrights, poets, and journalists around the country, this can’t-miss process features practical advice on how to break down a story into…
March
6
2010
- ISBN13: 9781884956539
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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The leap from concept to final draft is great, and the task is filled with hard work and horrors. It is here that most writers struggle to get the plot right at the expense of the story’s real power. The result is a script that is logical in every way, yet
unmoving. Emotional Structure, by Emmy- and Peabody-Award winning producer, writer, and teacher, Peter Dunne, is for these times, when the plot fits nicely into place like pieces in a puzzle, yet
unmoving. Emotional Structure, by Emmy- and Peabody-Award winning producer, writer, and teacher, Peter Dunne, is for these times, when the plot fits nicely into place like pieces in a puzzle, yet
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March
5
2010
- ISBN13: 9780240520797
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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If you’re looking for a straightforward, practical, no-nonsense guide to scriptwriting that will hold your hand right the way through the process, read on! The Raindance Writers’ Lab guides you through the tools that enable you to execute a strong treatment for a feature and be well on the way to the first draft of your script.
Written by the creator of the Raindance Film Festival himself, Elliot Grove uses a hands-on approach to screenwriting based on his many years of experience teaching the…
March
4
2010
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With guidance from top sitcom producers and examples straight from the screen, this book can help anyone write, revise–and sell–a script.
With twenty years in the business–as a writer, programming executive, and university instructor–Evan Smith knows what it takes to get from spec script to sitcom success. Here he offers the first published description of Premise-Driven Comedy, the writing method he has developed and popularized; tips from writer-producers who have worked on series from “Frasier” to “The Cosby Show” to “Roseanne;” a complete story outline from the series “Home Improvement;” explicit advice on how the business works and…