Screenwriting category: 401 books
by Rebecca Miller
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
She's wonderful - she's just kind of destroying my life.
Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a young single woman in Brooklyn who is determined to have a baby on her own through a surrogate. However, she meets John (Ethan Hawke), an attractive, older university professor, caught in an unhappy marriage,...
The Gilded Cage
A Full-Length Dramatic Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
The Gilded Cage is inspired on J’Tone’s childhood and coming of age in South Philly. Shared in six parts and written as a screenplay, this story is full of struggles, heartbreak, and hard times. It is a window into the life and times of immigrant families in the early 1900s.
by Linda James
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Have you got a great idea for a screenplay, but don't know how to write it visually? Then this book is for you. It will give you the vital information you need to know before you write your script; the vital techniques you need to learn when you're writing your script. But, more importantly, it will...
Safe In Killer Hands
The Original Screenplay
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
The COMPLETE original SCRIPT adapted from the revenge fiction novel: SAFE IN KILLER HANDS - Money, Madness, Murder, includes all 4 episodes. "With the logic of betrayed, the Asquith women instigate revenge - murder dressed in its Sunday best" - set within the 4 seasons of 1947. A widow,...
by Clayton Redfield
Language: French
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Pourquoi diable payons-nous de l'argent pour que les gens nous effraient à moitié?
Pourquoi est-ce amusant?
Un élément universel qui apparaît dans la psychologie de pratiquement tous les humains est la peur. Cela est vrai indépendamment de l'histoire personnelle ou des caractéristiques.
Ce...
Inside the TV Writer's Room
Practical Advice For Succeeding in Television
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Aspiring writers often ask how they can break into the television writing business. Meyers believes that the answer can be found by asking why people become television writers and what makes them successful. Inside the TV Writer’s Room reveals these insights and much more. This volume, a collection...
9 Juicy Weeks to a Wonderfully Imperfect First Draft
A Creativity Program for Writers
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
The first draft can be the hardest part! But Brooke Berman—an award-winning writer of plays, screenplays and nonfiction—can help make the process a lot less painful and maybe even kind of fun.
It doesn’t matter if you write fiction, plays or screenplays: her 9-week program will take...
Nunca mientas a un idiota
Póker para guionistas y demás escribientes
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2012
¿Qué esperas encontrar en Nunca mientas a un idiota? ¿Comedia romántica? ¿Autoayuda? ¿Y si el libro lleva impreso el subtítulo Póker para guionistas y demás escribientes? Este libro tiene algo de juego porque a escribir también se aprende jugando, poniendo al máximo nuestra capacidad de...
The Non-User-Friendly Guide For Aspiring TV Writers
Experience and Advice From the Trenches
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Steven L. Sears has had a successful career in film and television encompassing over thirty years of involvement at all levels. From his beginnings as a staff writer on the hit NBC show THE A-TEAM, to Co-Executive Producer on the hit series XENA-WARRIOR PRINCESS for MCA/Universal, creator and...
Cindy Sherman
Another kind of monster
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
One of the twentieth century’s most significant artists, Cindy Sherman has quietly uprooted conventional understandings of portraiture and art, questioning everything from identity to feminism. Critics around the world have taken Sherman’s photographs and extensively examined what lies underneath....
Nacidos para contar
Escribir y producir para TV y cine
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Dos de los más exitosos profesionales de la TV argentina, Jorge Maestro
y Pablo Culell, un autor y un productor, explican cómo generar productos
exitosos en los medios audiovisuales repasando el paso a paso que va de
la idea hasta la puesta en pantalla y estimulando la creatividad y la
capacidad...
by Sonia Escolano
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 22, 2015
El Rey Lombriz es la historia de Buny, un discapacitado psíquico de cuarenta y dos años que vive con su madre, la señora Teresa, en un barrio marginal de ninguna parte cuya variada fauna urbana representa a los abandonados de la sociedad y, entre los cuales, destacan tres:
-Besi, una joven prostituta,...
Rapid Story Development #4: Teams and Ensembles—How to Develop Stories with Large Casts
Rapid Story Development, #4
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
There are few topics in the field of story development that are less discussed than how to develop stories with large casts. Stories with large casts of characters pose specific challenges to writers and require particular skill sets and tools if they are going to contribute to the telling of a story,...
Sitcom Writers Talk Shop
Behind the Scenes with Carl Reiner, Norman Lear, and Other Geniuses of TV Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Behind every great television show is a group of professionals working at the top of their games—but no one is more important than the writers. And while writing comedy, especially good comedy, is serious business—fraught with actor egos, demanding producers, and sleepless nights—it also can...