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After decades of neglect, the screenplay is finally being recognized as a form that deserves serious critical analysis. This book for the first time combines detailed study of the theory and practice of screenwriting with new approaches to criticism and original studies of individual texts.

The complete text and lyrics to the off-Broadway smash, now also an award-winning film. Also featuring dazzling film stills, this spectacular rock musical tells the story of Hedwig Schmidt, victim of a gruesomely botched sex change operation, recounted by him/her in the form of a sleazy lounge act. As Stephen Holden of the New York Times wrote, If the glam-rock era is long gone, Hedwig reminds us, its subversive spirit... lives on.' '...with ferocious energy and enough sexual variety to match la...

Raymond Chandler was among the most original and enduring crime novelists of the twentieth century. Yet much of his pre-writing life, including his unconventional marriage, has remained shrouded in mystery. In this compelling, wholly original book, Judith Freeman sets out to solve the puzzle of who Chandler was and how he became the writer who would create in Philip Marlowe an icon of American culture. Visiting Chandler's many homes and apartments, Freeman uncovers vestiges of the Los Angeles th...

Into The Woods is a revelation of the fundamental structure and meaning of all stories, from the man responsible for more hours of drama on British television than anyone else, John Yorke. We all love stories. Many of us love to tell them, and even dream of making a living from it too. But what is a story? Hundreds of books about screenwriting and storytelling have been written, but none of them ask 'Why?' Why do we tell stories? And why do all stories function in an eerily similar way? John...

Blueprint for Screenwriting demystifies the writing process by developing a "blueprint" for writers to follow for each new screenplay--from original concept to completed script. Author and international script consultant Dr. Rachel Ballon explores the writing craft and emphasizes creativity in the writing process. She blends her expertise in script analysis and writing coaching with her personal experience as a screenwriter to help writers construct their stories and characters. Starting with t...

In 1997, a BAFTA award-winning British film about six out of work Sheffield steelworkers with nothing to lose took the world by storm. And now they're back, live on stage, only for them, it really has to be The Full Monty. Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning writer of the film, has now gone back to Sheffield where it all started to rediscover the men, the women, the heartache and the hilarity of a city on the dole. The Full Monty was the winner of the UK Theatre Best Touring Production award 2013...

This book offers a unique perspective on crafting your screenplay from an editor’s point-of-view. Special features include before and after examples from preproduction scripts to post production final cuts, giving screenwriters an opportunity to understand how their screenplay is visualized in post production. By the time a script reaches the editing room, it has passed through many hands and undergone many changes. The producer, production designer, director, cinematographer, and actor have al...

When it was released in 1998, Smoke Signals-the first film written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans to receive major national and international distribution-was applauded by Rolling Stone as \u201cone of the best films of the year.\u201d In the New York Times, Janet Maslin noted the \u201csplendid screenplay\u201d written by Sherman Alexie, based on a story from his acclaimed book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. On its twentieth anniversary, Alexie, the beloved autho...

This is the screenplay for "Snatch", a heist story set against the backdrop of the Jewish diamond district in London, involving a diamond deal gone helter-skelter, the rough-and-tumble world of bare-knuckle boxing, a colourful Irish gypsy and a dog.

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like—and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape. Drawing on the work of international experts as well as case studies from a range of forms and genres—including screenwriting, fiction filmmaking, documentary production and mobile media practice—the book is an essential guide for those...