Screenwriting

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...

This revised and refreshed edition guides the contemporary screenwriter through a variety of creative and critical approaches to a deeper understanding of how to tell stories for the screen. With a renewed focus on theme and structure, the book is an...

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

It is often suggested that there are 'secrets' to comedy or that it is 'lightning in a bottle', but the craft of comedy writing can be taught. While comedic tastes change, over time and from person to person, the core underpinning still depends on the...

Film editing is part of the long process of formulating, acquiring and presenting the images and sounds that make a film. The film editor makes decisions about the arrangement of the visual and aural material that they receive in the cutting room, not...

Examining the centrality of dialogue to American independent cinema, Jennifer O'Meara argues that it is impossible to separate small budgets from the old adage that `talk is cheap'. Focusing on the 1980s until the present, particularly on the films by...

The Pleasures of Structure starts from the premise that the ability to develop a well understood and articulated story structure is the most important skill a screenwriter can develop. For example, good structure requires a great premise and rigorous...

The Psychology of Screenwriting is more than an interesting book on the theory and practice of screenwriting. It is also a philosophical analysis of predetermination and freewill in the context of writing and human life in our mediated world of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463412579Author ROBERT KOSBERGFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 296gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

This is a comprehensive guide to writing the first draft of a feature length screenplay. While it focuses on the college semester (16 Weeks), it is also completely appropriate for anyone attempting to write a screenplay within a timeline. The text breaks...

Unlike most screenwriting guides that generally analyze several aspects of screenwriting, Constructing Dialogue is devoted to a more analytical treatment of certain individual scenes and how those scenes were constructed to be the most highly dramatic...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387849192Author Sheena MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 10mm

She's wonderful - she's just kind of destroying my life. Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a young single woman in Brooklyn who is determined to have a baby on her own through a surrogate. However, she meets John (Ethan Hawke), an attractive, older university...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987969378Author Felicia Guy-LynchFormat PaperbackPage Count 26Imprint Si Obi PublishingPublisher Si Obi PublishingWeight(grams) 36gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

This work is a valuable guide for screenwriters and those interested in the screenwriting process, with important information on every facet of the screenwriter's trade. Introductory chapters discuss skills essential for all screenwriters, including an...