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  • Creating Unforgettable Characters

    A Practical Guide to Character Development in Films, TV Series, Advertisements, Novels & Short Stories

    by Linda Seger ...
    In this book, Linda Seger shows how to create strong, multidimensional characters in fiction, covering everything from research to character block. Interviews with today's top writers complete this essential volume. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Write It, How to Sell It

    Everything a Screenwriter Needs to Know About Hollywood

    by Linda Palmer ...
    As a producer and successful screenwriter, Linda Palmer knows all of Hollywood's trade secrets--and in How to Write It, How to Sell It, she shares them all.Linda Palmer knows that even in closed-door Hollywood, if your screenplay snags the interest of a producer, it doesn't matter who you are--you're in. The trick is getting your screenplay into the producer's hands. As a former vice president of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Chuck Amuck

    The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist

    The illustrated classic, complete with a new preface by Matt Groening.Winner of three Academy Awards and numerous other prizes for his animated films, Chuck Jones is the director of scores of famous Warner Bros. cartoons and the creator of such memorable characters as the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, and Marvin Martian. In this beguiling memoir, Chuck Jones evokes the golden years of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • My Movie Business

    A Memoir

    by John Irving ...
    John Irving's memoir begins with his account of the distinguished career and medical writings of the novelist's grandfather Dr. Frederick C. Irving, a renowned obstetrician and gynecologist, and includes Mr. Irving's incisive history of abortion politics in the United States. But My Movie Business focuses primarily on the thirteen years John Irving spent adapting his novel The Cider House Rules ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting

    by Skip Press ...
    This guide is for anyone who has ever thought of screenwriting. Written by someone who has "been there, done that," and lived to tell the tale, it reveals the most popular genres, explains how stories need to be structured for feature films and TV movies, offers the freshest look at workshops and online classes, and disusses how to set up a step–by–step path to success. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Secrets of Film Writing

    by Tom Lazarus ...
    Most books about screenplays instruct on three-act structure, character arcs, and how to format a script. But you already know all that.Secrets of Film Writing reveals a working writer's secrets-the tips, short cuts, tricks, and insider advice that will get your story down on paper, maximize your idea, and seduce your readers. Do you know why actors pick scripts out of a stack? Why montage ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The 101 Habits Of Highly Successful Screenwriters

    Insider's Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers

    by Karl Iglesias ...
    Insider Secrets from Hollywood’s Top WritersThis book not only shows how to be a screenwriter, but what it's actually like to be one. An inspiration to all would-be screenwriters, this book is about living the screenwriter's life -- the habits, writing environments, creative processes, daily passions, and obsessions.In The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters, author Karl Iglesias has ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Filmmaker's Guide to Production Design

    Learn to turn a simple screenplay into a visual masterpiece! Top production designers share their real-life experiences to explain the aesthetic, narrative, and technical aspects of the craft. Step by step, aspiring filmmakers will discover sound instruction on the tools of the trade, and established filmmakers will enjoy a new outlook on production design. They will learn, for example, the craft ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Shoot Me

    Independent Filmmaking from Creative Concept to Rousing Release

    When the script says "shoot me" and Hollywood says no, your only alternative is to raise the money and do it yourself. Here's how screenwriters Roy Frumkes and Rocco Simonelli used digital video to do just that. Witty, original, and ruthlessly on the mark, this unvarnished look at independent film-making chronicles both the creative intricacies of collaboration and the tricks of staying in budget ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Black Actor's Guide to Not Working

    Journal and an Original Screenplay.

    by Darrell Kiedo ...
    "The Black Actors Guide...is the personal journey of Actor/Comedian Darrell Kiedo as recorded in his journal. The personal tale of one mans struggle to pursue his dream. It is a hard hitting look at the entertainment business from a black actors perspective, funny and poignant it will open your eyes to an industry that continues to close doors to performers of color while shouting diversity from ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Pitching Hollywood

    How to Sell Your TV Show and Movie Ideas

    Two successful movie and TV producers provide the reader with the tools needed to create, develop, and sell ideas to Hollywood. Producers Jonathan Koch (""Beyond the Glory"") and Robert Kosberg (Deep Blue Sea) are known as the ""Kings of Pitch."" They currently have more than a dozen projects in development at major studios, including projects with Josh Lucas, Tobey Maguire, and Katherine Heigl. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434

    The Industry's Premier Teacher Reveals the Secrets of the Successful Screenplay

    by Lew Hunter ...
    For decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the secrets of his course on the screenwriting process by actually writing an original script, step by step, that appears in the book. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Comedy Writing

    Comedy is serious business—and serious money. In this guide, comedian, writer, and teacher James Mendrinos explains the principles of comedy and how to apply them to forms from stand-up to sitcoms- including fiction, film, speeches, articles, essays, and more. He also includes exercises designed to hone the craft, break through writer’s block, and tailor a piece to its intended audience.In this ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Art of Crime

    The Plays and Film of Harold Pinter and David Mamet

    Edited by Leslie Kane ...
    Series series Studies in Modern Drama
    This collection of 15 original essays, assembled by renowned Mamet and Pinter scholar Leslie Kane, examines the pervasiveness of crime and criminality in the plays and screenplays of two of the most influential contemporary dramatists. The contributors generally focus on one or more works by a single writer, while a few take a comparative approach. Often the works studied are lesser-known or ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Psychology for Screenwriters

    Screenwriters must understand human behavior to make their stories come alive. This book clearly describes theories of personality and psychoanalysis with simple guidelines, thought provoking exercises, vivid film images and hundreds of examples from classic movies. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Screenwriting is Storytelling

    Creating an A-List Screenplay that Sells!

    by Kate Wright ...
    While most screenwriting books focus on format and structure, Kate Wright explains how to put story at the center of a screenplay. A compelling story, complete with intriguing characters and situations created with these screenwriting tricks of the trade can become a box office blockbuster film.Screenwriters will learn:- Developing themes within the plot- Using structure to define the story- ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Cut by Cut

    Editing Your Film or Video

    by Gael Chandler ...
    Learn how skilled editors can turn raw footage into polished art for film, television, or web. With practical project guidelines and advice on organizing digital and film cutting rooms, and much more. ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again

    When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again tells the stories of three soldiers in three wars.Three soldiers. Each someone's Johnny. Father, son. Brother, cousin. Husband, lover. Just plain buddy.Three conflicts. The Civil War, pitting North against South, Yank against Johnny Reb, brother against brother. The Vietnam War, North-South strife with Orwellian overtones. The War on Terror, Afghanistan ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Revenge of the Sith: Illustrated Screenplay: Star Wars: Episode III

    by George Lucas ...
    Series Book 3 - Star Wars - Legends
    EPISODE III–THE ONE AND ONLY OFFICIAL SCREENPLAY, available exclusively in ebook format, including scenes that did not appear in the movie itself!This is the complete, final screenplay written by George Lucas, as brought to life before the cameras by a stellar cast of performers and an unparalleled team of special effects wizards.Enjoy a rare and fascinating director’s-eye-view of all the action, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Cinematic Storytelling

    What the industry's most succcessful writers and directors have in common is that they have mastered the cinematic conventions specific to the medium. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Independent Filmmaking

    by Josef Steiff ...
    You ought to be making pictures.Designed for people who want to tell a story their way, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Independent Filmmaking explains everything a budding auteur needs to know—from literary development and financial and organizational pre-production to principal photography production, post-production assembly, exhibition and distribution, and more.• The advent of desktop editing ... Read more

    $11.99 USD $8.99 USD

  • Understanding the Global TV Format

    Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world. Under the new market conditions of the multi-channel cluster brought about by new technologies and increased privatization of service, the adaptation of successful and popular TV formats from one place to another is occurring on an increasingly regular basis. Hence, the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Making Your Film for Less Outside the U.S.

    by Mark Dewayne ...
    At last, here is a definitive step-by-step guide that explains everything needed to successfully produce and distribute films overseas. Following the advice found here, filmmakers will learn to make films in foreign countries that cost less money and allow the artists greater creative control. Chapters include: scheduling and budgeting, foreign censors, accommodations and office rental, scams to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Making Short Films

    by Jim Piper ...
    Accompanying DVD of thirty short films offers an instructive mini film festival Shows beginners how to make meaningful films without fancy equipment Great for film students and independent filmmakers Want to make an art film, a documentary, a video biography? Here’s how to create real movies using consumer digital video format-without spending a lot of money or time. Author Jim Piper has taught ... Read more

    $17.99 USD