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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Moral Premise

    Harnessing Virtue & Vice for Box Office Success

    The Moral Premise reveals the foundational concept at the heart of all storytelling and successful box office movies. In concrete terms it explains how you can create your own success and, in the process, entertain, delight, challenge, and uplift this generation and the ones to come. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Emotional Structure

    Creating the Story Beneath the Plot: A Guide for Screenwriters

    by Pete Dunne ...
    The leap from concept to final draft is great, and the task is filled with hard work and horrors. It is here that most writers struggle to get the plot right at the expense of the story's real power. The result is a script that is logical in every way, yet unmoving. ""Emotional Structure,"" by Emmy- and Peabody-Award winning producer, writer, and teacher, Peter Dunne, is for these times, when the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Selling Your Story in 60 Seconds

    The Guaranteed Way to Get Your Screenplay or Novel Read

    by Michael Hauge ...
    From the author of "Screenplays That Sell" comes his newest book that reveals a one-minute technique for getting one's screenplay or novel read by the major powers of Hollywood. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Everything Filmmaking Book

    From Script to Premiere—a Complete Guide to Putting Your Vision on the Screen

    Series series The Everything Books
    Filmmaking is a notoriously difficult field to break into—a script’s chance of making it to production is a staggering 1 in every 140,000. But the millions of aspiring filmmakers can up their odds with The Everything Filmmaking Book. This engaging, easy-to-follow guide takes readers step-by-step through the filmmaking process, including:-Writing a marketable script-Understanding all aspects of pre ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How To Write: A Screenplay

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    There are hundreds of books on the market, all trying to teach you how to write a screenplay. Several of them are excellent and useful books. But never - until now - has there been a screenwriting manual written in the form of a screenplay.Our hero, the aspiring screenwriter Danny, is hopelessly in love with Bebe, a hot young starlet. But Bebe won't go out with Danny until he proves that he can ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies

    The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told

    by Blake Snyder ...
    In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, "Save the Cat!," author and screenwriter Snyder returns to form in a fast-paced follow-up that proves why his is the most talked-about approach to screenwriting in years. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Far from Heaven, Safe, and Superstar

    Three Screenplays

    by Todd Haynes ...
    Three acclaimed screenplays from one of today’s most provocative filmmakers, including the Oscar nominated screenplay Far from Heaven.An award-winning auteur and a pioneer of the New Queer Cinema movement, Todd Haynes has achieved both critical acclaim and box office success with his original, intelligent, and often controversial films. Collected here are three of his most celebrated screenplays ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • And the Best Screenplay Goes To...

    Learning from the Winners: Sideways, Shakespeare in Love, Crash

    by Linda Seger ...
    This book provides a CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) approach to Academy Award-winning screenplays, giving you the nitty gritty details of how an Academy Award script was created. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Rewrite

    A Step-By-Step Guide to Strengthen Structure, Characters, and Drama in Your Screenplay

    by Paul Chitlik ...
    Professional screenwriters know that the rewriting process is what separates the money-makers from the neophytes. This illustrated, step-by-step guide shows the process of re-writing and why it is so essential. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Power of the Dark Side

    Creating Great Villains, Dangerous Situations, & Dramatic Conflict

    Conflict is the very heart and soul of drama, and Smith's latest work explores character conflict and the various ways to portray it both in scripts and on the stage. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Secrets of Social Media Marketing

    How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business!

    by Paul Gillin ...
    ""Secrets of Social Media Marketing"" is a handbook for marketers and business owners to use in deciding how to employ the new social media for online marketing. Social media has quickly moved from the periphery of marketing into the forefront, but this is a new and quickly-evolving field and there are few established formulas for success. Building on the lessons set out in Gillin's acclaimed and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Writing Movies

    The Practical Guide to Creating Stellar Screenplays

    To break into the screenwriting game, you need a screenplay that is not just good, but great. Superlative. Stellar. In Writing Movies you'll find everything you need to know to reach this level. And, like the very best teachers, Writing Movies is always practical, accessible, and entertaining.The book provides a comprehensive look at screenwriting, covering all the fundamentals (plot, character, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Hollywood Standard

    The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style

    Series series Hollywood Standard: The Complete & Authoritative Guide to
    The Hollywood Standard describes in clear, vivid prose and hundreds of examples how to format every element of a screenplay or television script. A reference for everyone who writes for the screen, from the novice to the veteran, this is the dictionary of script format, with instructions for formatting everything from the simplest master scene heading to the most complex and challenging musical ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Stephen King on the Big Screen

    by Mark Browning ...
    From 1976 to the present day, there have been over 45 films adapted from the spine-tingling works of Stephen King. In Stephen King on the Big Screen, Mark Browning addresses the question of why some of the film adaptations of the world’s best-selling author are much more successful than others.By focussing on the theoretical aspect of genre, Browning brings an original approach to familiar films ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Sophia Loren

    Moulding the Star

    by Pauline Small ...
    European stardom is very different from that of Hollywood, where the industry concentrates intensively on establishing and promoting major stars. This unique book sets out to highlight the career of Sophia Loren as a prime example of a highly original rise to fame in a European context. Pauline Small emphasizes that although primarily an Italian star, Loren’s career crossed the boundaries of a ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Brothers Coen

    Unique Characters of Violence

    by Ryan P. Doom ...
    Series series Modern Filmmakers
    This examination of the distinctive cinema of Joel and Ethan Coen explores the theme of violence in their wide-ranging body of work.The Brothers Coen: Unique Characters of Violence spans the career of the two-time Oscar-winning producer/director team, exploring the theme of violence that runs through a genre-spanning body of work, from the neo-noir of Blood Simple to the brutal comedy Burn After ... Read more

    $44.99 USD