Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film. Nora Ephron: A Biography is the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girl who forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration from critics and fans alike. Author Kristin Marguerite Doidge explores the tremendous successes and disappointing failures Ephron sustained in her career as a popular essayist turned screenwriter turned film director. She redefined the moder...
Written for both new and experienced writers, this comprehensive marketing guide offers advice and tips needed by writers to succeed in the film and television industries. Focusing on the business of writing, it gives writers the unabashed truth about the film industry, and advice on how to get scripts to the gatekeepers of the studios and read by agents. Comprehensive listings of contests, fellowships, grants, and development opportunities from an industry expert provide specific information on...
Complete Warhol Screenplays (Sun & Moon Classics , #137)
by Ronald Tavel
The Superior Mindset of a Christ-Honoring Filmmaker (Storytelling 101)
by Stephen Kendrick
Creature from the Black Lagoon (Universal Filmscripts S., Classic Science Fiction Films, v. 2)
With an Introduction by Lea Dalaria This is the original screenplay to the lesbian film which was released in 1994 to extraordinary acclaim. In this girl-meets-girl romance, a young single lesbian yearning for romance meets a hippie -ish partner who isn't, on the surface, what she really wants. With stills and candid production photographs, as well as production notes and diary entries, Go Fish' is both an inspiration and an education for young film makers as well as a fascinating look at lesbia...
During their 34-year collaboration, Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett wrote the screenplays ""It's a Wonderful Life"", ""The Thin Man"", ""Easter Parade"", Father of the Bride"", ""Naughty Marietta"", ""Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"", and both the play and screenplay for The Diary of Anne Frank. This is their story.
This is a comprehensive guide to teach writing and story development from a collaborative global perspective. This book teaches writers how to take full advantage of emerging opportunities, both locally and globally. With an increasing number of international co-productions and many screenwriters now working collaboratively in writers rooms and development groups, author Marc Handler explains how to work cooperatively with others to break stories, plan seasons, create characters, and build seri...
Individual at the Crossroads (European University Studies, v. 349)
by Sabine Prufer
This dissertation provides the first comprehensive survey of the works of Robert Bolt. The highly prolific, versatile and successful modern British author is best known for his play about Sir Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons, and his screenplays for film epics such as Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago and The Mission. Special permission to quote extensively from unpublished material such as film scripts and production notes enabled the author of this thesis for the first time to present and d...
"Understanding Screenwriting" dissects 21 successful and unsuccessful screenplays. It analyzes why certain aspects of a screenplay work and others do not.This is an opinionated book, not in any way meant to be a comprehensive survey. Like any opinionated book, especially one aimed at students, this one rises or falls on the sure-handedness of the author. Stempel is engaging, responsible and level-headed. "This book isn't about me, it's about you" is the way it begins. "I am a teacher, not a guru...
To Kill a Mockingbird ; Tender Mercies ; and, the Trip to Bountiful
by Horton Foote
Horton Foote's uniquely personal style of screenwriting is at its peak in this collection of two Academy Award winners, To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies, and The Trip to Bountiful, a film widely named as one of 1985's best. "In an age when the lexicon of cinema is largely visual," noted Samuel G. Freedman in the New York Times Magazine, "Foote writes films. He stresses dialogue and character development rather than spectacle or even traditional narrative." Each of the three screenplays s...
Millions of people dream of writing a screenplay but don't know how to begin, or are already working on a script but are stuck and need some targeted advice. Or maybe they have a great script, but no clue about how to navigate the choppy waters of show business. Enter Cut To The Chase, written by professional writers who teach in UCLA Extension Writers' Programme, whose alumni's many credits include Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl; Twilight; and the Academy Award nominated Le...
From All Quiet on the Western Front, the Academy Award-winning "Best Picture" of 1929-1930, to Dances with Wolves, the 1991 winner, many of Hollywood's most popular and enduring movies have been screen adaptations of written work, including novels, stories, and plays. In this practical, hands-on guide, veteran TV and screenwriter Ben Brady unlocks the secrets of the adaptation process, showing aspiring writers and writing teachers how to turn any kind of narrative material into workable, salable...