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Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

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Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Robert McKee · 466 pages

For the first time in book form, Robert McKee's Story reveals the award-winning methods of the man universally regarded as the world's premier screenwriting teacher. For more than 17 years, Robert McKee's students have been taking Hollywood's top honors. His Story Structure seminar is the ultimate class for screenwriters and filmmakers, playing to packed auditoriums across the world and boasting m

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Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

Blake Snyder · 205 pages

Here’s what started the phenomenon: the best seller, for over 15 years, that’s been used by screenwriters around the world! Blake Snyder tells all in this fast, funny and candid look inside the movie business. “Save the Cat” is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying, including: The four elements of every winning logline The seven immut

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Adventures in the Screen Trade

William Goldman · 425 pages

Includes an idea-to-film production case study of his short story, Da Vinci.

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Hamlet: Screenplay, Introduction And Film Diary

William Shakespeare · 208 pages

Often credited with creating a popular movie audience for Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh has wanted for many years to bring to the screen the complete, full-length version of Hamlet, Shakespeare's greatest play. He has now done so - as director and as the prince of Denmark - making an emotionally moving, visually spectacular movie that will become a landmark in film history. The volume includes Kenn

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Making Movies

Sidney Lumet · 220 pages

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The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

David Trottier · 424 pages

The Screenwriter's Bible is six books in one. --Publisher.

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The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

Greg Sestero, Tom Bissell · 279 pages

"In 2003, an independent film called The Room--starring and written, produced, directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau--made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as "like getting stabbed in the head," the six-million-dollar film earned a grand total of $1800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Ten years

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Directing Actors

Judith Weston · 307 pages

Directing Actors is a method for establishing creative, collaborative relationships with actors, getting the most out of rehearsals, troubleshooting poor performances, and giving briefer directions. Ms. Weston discusses what constitutes a good performance, what actors want from a director, what directors do wrong, script analysis, how actors work, and the director/actor relationship. This book is

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Monster

Walter Dean Myers · 281 pages

While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.

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James Cameron's Titanic

Ed W. Marsh, Douglas Kirkland, James Cameron · 192 pages

Describes the monumental efforts that went into the creation of the major motion picture that re-created the final voyage of the "ship of dreams," otherwise known as the Titanic.

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An Unsuitable Boy

Karan Johar, Poonam Saxena · 352 pages

xiii, 216 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm

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How to Write a Movie in 21 Days

Viki King · 192 pages

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Harry Potter: Film Wizardry

Brian Sibley · 159 pages

Immerse yourself in the world of the spectacular Harry Potter film series, and learn why Yule Ball ice sculptures never melt, where Galleons, Sickles, and Knuts are really "minted," how to get a Hippogriff to work with actors, the inspiration behind Hogwarts castle, and why Dementors move the way they do. Written and designed in collaboration with the cast and crew that brought J.K. Rowling's cele

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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Peter Biskind · 506 pages

"Easy Riders, Raging Bulls vividly chronicles the exuberance and excess of the times: the startling success of Easy Rider and the equally alarming circumstances under which it was made, with drugs, booze, and violent rivalry between costars Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda dominating the set; how a small production company named BBS became the guiding spirit of the youth rebellion in Hollywood and ho

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Hitchcock

François Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock, Helen G. Scott · 311 pages

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The Kid Stays in the Picture

Robert Evans · 480 pages

An autobiographical account of the life and times of Robert Evans, Hollywood producer who worked on Love Story, Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Marathon Man, Chinatown The Cottonwood Club and many other films.

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Lynch on Lynch

David Lynch, Chris Rodley · 304 pages

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Make Your Own Damn Movie!: Secrets of a Renegade Director

Lloyd Kaufman, Adam Jahnke, Trent Haaga · 329 pages

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Firefly: The Official Companion Volume One

Joss Whedon, Abbie Bernstein

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