Screenwriting

In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity a diverse group of contributors challenge the view that Campion's body of work lacks coherence or unity to instead examine the important characteristics and themes that underlie it. Editors Hilary Radner,...

The Collaborative Art of Filmmaking: From Script to Screen explores what goes into the making of Hollywood's greatest motion pictures. Join veteran script consultant Linda Seger as she examines contemporary and classic screenplays on their perilous...

In this introduction to screenwriting, author Darsie Bowden provides sage, real-world advice and instruction on the process of writing film screenplays. This text will help budding screenwriters to structure their dramas, refine their characterizations,...

Screenwriters have been central figures in French cinema since the conversion to sound, from early French-language talkies for the domestic market to lavish literary adaptations of the notorious 'quality tradition' of the 1950s, and from the 'aesthetic...

Authorship in film has been a persistent theme in the field of cinema studies. This volume of new work revitalizes the question of authorship by connecting it to larger issues of identity--in film, in the marketplace, in society, in culture. Essays range...

Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to 'undo' or 'subvert' popular formats, but also to...

Screening World Cinema brings together a selection of the best articles on the topic of world cinema published in the esteemed Screen journal.Available in one volume for the first time, this collection allows readers to cross-reference debates and essays...

Jefferson Hunter examines English films and television dramas as they relate to English culture in the 20th century. He traces themes such as the influence of U.S. crime drama on English film, and film adaptations of literary works as they appear in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312269081Author Tom LazarusFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 213mm *...

One of the twentieth century's most significant artists, Cindy Sherman has quietly uprooted conventional understandings of portraiture and art, questioning everything from identity to feminism. Critics around the world have taken Sherman's photographs...

Illustrating the multifaceted art of screenwriting, this guide expertly navigates its vital aspects-dramatic structure, the creation of character, and story development. The nature of the writer's role in the film and television industry-both in...

From movie buffs and film students to anyone who enjoys true-crime stories or is interested in U.S. politics, this companion to a critically acclaimed biopic offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of cinema. A mix of Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas,...

This unique book explores the social processes which shape fictional representations of police and crime in television dramas. Exploring ten leading British and European police dramas from the last twenty-five years, Colbran, a former scriptwriter,...

From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey. His analysis includes detailed case studies of the films...

A new, original investigation into how screenwriting works; the practices, creative 'poetics' and texts that serve the screen idea. Using a range of film, media and creative theories, it includes new case studies on the successful ITV soap Emmerdale,...

The essays within this collection explore the possibilities and potentialities of all three positions, presenting encounters that are, at times contradictory, at other times supportive, as well as complementary. The collection thereby enriches the...

McGee studies historical representation in commodified, popular cinema as expressions of historical truths that more authentic histories usually miss and argues for the political and social significance of mass culture through the interpretation of four...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999761267Author Sherlann D MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Moon Leaf Publishing LLCPublisher Moon Leaf Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999761250Author Sherlann D MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Moon Leaf Publishing LLCPublisher Moon Leaf Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524930233Author Juliet GiglioFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.

Demonstrates how to analyse a screenplay through a seven-steps method: character, story elements, story world and setting, main plot and subplots, structure, screenwriting tools, and genre, tone and style. Offers step by step guidance, case study...

Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the headhunters who rebelled against or collaborated with...

Because screenwriter Robert Riskin spent most of his career collaborating with legendary Hollywood director Frank Capra, Riskin's own unique contributions to film have been largely overshadowed. With five Academy Award nominations to his credit for the...

Writing for Visual Media provides writers with an understanding of the nature of visual writing behind all visual media. Such writing is vital for directors, actors, and producers to communicate content to audiences. Friedmann provides an extended...

How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations, disconcerting ironies and paradoxes, and biographical...

How do we identify the "queer auteur" and their queer imaginings? Is it possible to account for such a figure when the very terms "queer" and "auteur" invoke aesthetic surprises and disorientations, disconcerting ironies and paradoxes, and biographical...

An industry professional's insider's look at the craft, practice, and business of screenwriting, exploding some of the most popular myths about writing for the movies by showing how little relevance they have to actual working conditions.Analytical...

This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American cultures, with a focus on comics and superheroes.The author employs a combination of research methodologies, including close reading of...

One of the most successful writers in Hollywood, Ernest Lehman penned some of the most iconic and memorable scenes to ever grace the silver screen. Hailed by Vanity Fair as "perhaps the greatest screenwriter in history," Lehman's work on films such as...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798706260453Author Jeffrey William KitchenFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798667078913Author Darren CallahanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Collected Screenplays of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798642994184Author Archil GugberidzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798358379251Author John SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218059132Author Scott BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Weyland YutaniPublisher Weyland YutaniWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781977245700Author Dickson LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Outskirts PressPublisher Outskirts PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951805685Author Cara J RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Waterside ProductionsPublisher Waterside ProductionsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

This book seeks to reshape the way that writers think about constructing their story, looking at the subject from the inside out. Often practitioners and theorists examine work through the separate lenses of character and/or structure and then bring them...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781838029128Author Simon PassmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Palindrome Publishing LtdPublisher Palindrome Publishing Ltd

Drive in Cinema offers Zizek-influenced studies of films made by some of the most engaging and influential filmmakers of our time, from avant-garde directors Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Vera Chytilova, to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678161446Author David BrownFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm