Screenwriters on Screenwriting: the Best in the Business Discuss Their Craft
by Joel Engel
Mission to Moscow is a notorious classic among propaganda films produced in the United States. Never has another feature film been made with such explicit direction from the federal government, although the result failed to persuade every viewer.
A compulsively readable journey into the area of film-making where all writers, girectors and stars fear to tread: Development Hell. the place where scripts are written, actors hired and sets designed...but the films rarely actually get made!
Swingers is an affectionate, hilarious ode to the fine arts of friendship, bar-hopping and girl-chasing. Told in the hip retro-vernacular of the nineties lounge lizard, it's the tale of a 'rat-pack' of young under-employed actors, hanging out together in Hollywood. Mike is pining for his ex-girlfriend; his suave buddy Trent wants to entice him away from his stuffy apartment and back out among 'the beautiful babies' on the club scene. HQ for the guys' nocturnal maneoeuvres is Sue's pad, where the...
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Dances with Wolves: the Illustrated Story of the Epic Film (Pictorial Moviebook)
by Kevin Costner, Michael Blake, and Jim Wilson
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...
Acid House (Jonathan Cape originals) (Screen and Cinema)
by Irvine Welsh
The characters in this extraordinary collection are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Stereotypes are at once celebrated and destroyed, as the protagonists find themselves on unfamiliar ground: two professors of philosophy turn pugilists; Leith removal men become objects of desire for Hollywood goddesses; God turns Boab Coyle into a house-fly; and in the novella, 'A Smart Cunt', the drug-addled young hero spin...
This book covers everything you need to know to master the fundamentals of location sound recording and postproduction sound in a comprehensive one-stop guide. This user-friendly book provides real world situations to analyze the many kinds of location recording configurations and postproduction scenarios and offers easy-to-adopt, budget-conscious solutions to some of the most common issues that arise when working with sound. Chapters cover the theory of sound, preproduction with a sound emphas...
Beyond Screenwriting: Insider Tips and Career Advice from a Successful Hollywood TV and Film Writer
by Sterling Anderson and Andrea Goss Knaub
In the company of men is a black comedy about a psychological love triangle set within 1990s corporate culture. The story of two white-collar managers, Chad and Howard, who maliciously plot to jointly romance the lonely, deaf, beautiful office temp Christine before simultaneously dumping her, is cool and compelling in its depiction of the worst sorts of emotional abuse. What begins as a cat-and-mouse game of one-upmanship quickly escalates into full-scale psychological warfare. Only too late doe...
The Shipping News (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) (The Perennial Collection)
by Annie Proulx
Annie Proulx's highly acclaimed, international bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers - the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters - Bunny and Sunshine - in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. 'The...
A second book in the ROCLIFFE NOTES series, formed from the questions of newer filmmakers. This is a practical compendium for screenwriters and filmmakers in the form of notes and opinions. These provide a step-by-step, common-sense guide, with suggestions on how filmmakers package a film. The book covers everything you need to know to get a low-budget film made, from understanding budgeting and different types of finance, to casting, crewing, scheduling, production and festival strategy. This b...