Understanding Screenwriting
Title | Understanding Screenwriting PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Stempel |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Continuum |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2008-04-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
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When Women Wrote Hollywood
Title | When Women Wrote Hollywood PDF eBook |
Author | Rosanne Welch |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2018-07-03 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1476668876 |
This collection of 23 new essays focuses on the lives of female screenwriters of Golden Age Hollywood, whose work helped create those unforgettable stories and characters beloved by audiences--but whose names have been left out of most film histories. The contributors trace the careers of such writers as Anita Loos, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Lillian Hellman, Gene Gauntier, Eve Unsell and Ida May Park, and explore themes of their writing in classics like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Ben Hur, and It's a Wonderful Life.
Understanding Screenwriting
Title | Understanding Screenwriting PDF eBook |
Author | John Vourlis |
Publisher | Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 2018-07-25 |
Genre | Motion picture authorship |
ISBN | 9781524968960 |
Creative Screenwriting
Title | Creative Screenwriting PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Kallas |
Publisher | Red Globe Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2010-06-30 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Christina Kallas argues for and sets out a genuinely original and creative approach to writing for the screen. This textbook aims to excite the imagination, inspiring and dramatizing stories with thematic richness, emotional depth and narrative rhythm. Structured like a screenplay, the book moves through the pre-credit sequence to the epilogue, interweaving theory, practice and case studies. Kallas combines an awareness of the history of dramatic writing with a very practical focus on how to find ideas and develop them. Supported by innovative and inspiring exercises that enable writers to create stories out of emotions and images, this book is challenging, motivating and essential reading for anyone interested in screenwriting.
What’s the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay
Title | What’s the Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Markham |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2020-09-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1000173895 |
A structured perspective on the crucial interface of director and screenplay, this book encompasses twenty-two seminal aspects of the approach to story and script that a director needs to understand before embarking on all other facets of the director’s craft. Drawing on seventeen years of teaching filmmaking at a graduate level and on his prior career as a director and in production at the BBC, Markham shows how the filmmaker can apply rigorous analysis of the elements of dramatic narrative in a screenplay to their creative vision, whether of a short or feature, TV episode or season. Combining examination of such fundamental topics as story, premise, theme, genre, world and setting, tone, structure, and key images with the introduction of less familiar concepts such as cultural, social, and moral canvas, narrative point of view, and the journey of the audience, What’s The Story? The Director Meets Their Screenplay applies the insights of each chapter to a case study—the screenplay of the short film Contrapelo, nominated for the Jury Award at Tribeca in 2014. This book is an essential resource for any aspiring director who wants to understand exactly how to approach a screenplay in order to get the very best from it, and an invaluable resource for any filmmaker who wants to understand the important creative interplay between the director and screenplay in bringing a story to life.
Save the Cat!
Title | Save the Cat! PDF eBook |
Author | Blake Snyder |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9781615931712 |
This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!
Screenplay
Title | Screenplay PDF eBook |
Author | Syd Field |
Publisher | M J F Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Motion picture authorship |
ISBN | 9781567312393 |
Providing examples from well-known movies, Field explains the structural and stylistic elements as well as writing techniques basic to the creation of a successful film script.