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Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorScreenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
Syd Field · 246 pages
One of the seminal and much respected texts in the field of screenwriting by one of the greats. *Screenplay* has been revised and updated many times and it remains a number one bestseller on Amazon in 2016, years after it was first published. The book contains guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints elements
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
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)
Emma Thompson · 287 pages
Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman · 425 pages
Includes an idea-to-film production case study of his short story, Da Vinci.
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
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.
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.
The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators
Richard Williams · 352 pages
Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) has written an incredible step-by-step guide that's great for beginners and and experts alike. Goes into great detail regarding many aspects of animation, including detailed sections covering walks, runs, dialogue, timing, acting, directing, and much more.
The Annotated Godfather
Jenny M. Jones · 264 pages
For the first time since "The Godfather" films debut 35 years ago, an annotated and illustrated edition of the complete screenplay fully authorized by Paramount Pictures has been compiled. Virtually every scene and shot is examined, and the fascinating commentary includes technical details about the filming, set design, and shooting locations; inside stories; profiles of the actors, and more.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse Andrews · 304 pages
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words, Vol. 2
Graham Chapman · 384 pages
Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
Robert Rodriguez · 294 pages
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
Bruce Campbell · 324 pages
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Greg Sestero · 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
James Cameron's Titanic
Ed W. Marsh · 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.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum - How We Made Movie Magic
Andy Serkis · 112 pages
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
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
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
Twilight Director's Notebook : The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer
Catherine Hardwicke · 163 pages
In this intimate book, readers will follow visionary director Catherine Hardwicke through the creative process that went into transforming Stephenie Meyer's breathtaking novel into box office gold. Discover the inside secrets on wardrobe, storyboard sketches, behind-the-scenes photographs, personal notes about Catherine's favorite scenes, and much more.