books about: screenplay

books about: screenplay

books:

Screenplay

A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2004

The dream of romance is lighthearted laughter
The spirit of one of Shakespeare's richest plays is lighthearted laughter. The great impressario of the proceedings is Puck who in giving the 'love potion' to the wrong person, sets up the chaos of both Demetrius and Lysander loving Helena. There are numerous networks ...

How to Write a Movie in 21 Days

Viki King

Collins, 1993

Practical and motivating
The book does a good job of going over the common blocks to finishing a screenplay and how to overcome them. I love the writing prompts. I was not able to write a screenplay in 21 days, and the reason is that I did not follow her prompts time line or her suggestion ...

Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told

Blake Snyder

Michael Wiese Productions, 2007

A powerful examination of film and it's form!
This is the best book about screenwriting I have ever read! I own and have read dozens of books about screenwriting! Nothing I say can do justice to this book in a short review. While other books cover the essential basic information needed to become a ...

The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare

Washington Square Press, 2004

"Come, kiss the book!"
As Shakespeare's final play, The Tempest is appropriately a culmination of his motifs and themes amassed beforehand in previous work. You have the jester, the underhanded political aspirants, the outcast, the young naive fools hopelessly in lust, and the omniscient ...

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

Vintage, 2004

What Happens To A Dream Deferred?
Produced in 1959, A RAISIN IN THE SUN was the first Broadway play written by a black woman: Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), a memorable author who based the central story on an incident that occurred in her own family and which eventually evolved into a landmark ...

Save The Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need

Blake Snyder

Michael Wiese Productions, 2005

Excellent book
I thought that I had all the books on filmmaking I need to have. But I was wrong. I was still hinged to traditional way of screenwriting until I came across this book. The biggest trouble with screenwriting is to write second act (off course you need an idea too!!). ...

The Dark Knight: Featuring Production Art and Full Shooting Script

Craig Byrne

Universe, 2008

"The Art Of The Dark Knight"book
I was very impressed with this well presented film book,it is printed on a high quality paper,has great photos and production art throughout,is hardcover,has a dust jacket,and a reproduction of the original shooting script word for word,awesome book,outstanding for ...

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

Syd Field

Delta, 2005

The Pioneering Book on Screenwriting
This review focuses on the latest edition of Syd Field's SCREENPLAY: The Foundations of Screenwriting, published in December 2005. Syd Field published the book in 1979, the first book ever on the subject. In his memoir, GOING TO THE MOVIES -- A Personal Journey ...

The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

David Trottier

Silman-James Press, 2005

Could be better than film schools.
If you are thinking of enrolling in a film school to study how to write scripts, GET THIS BOOK FIRST. You might save a lot of money. This book has everything. It's easy to read. I wish I'd found this book before wasting tons of money on U*LA.

No Exit and Three Other Plays

Jean-Paul Sartre

Vintage, 1989

Beautiful melancholy
Sartre is sometimes given a reputation that far precedes him, as with many Nobel recipients. These plays are a testament against the skeptic's mindset. "No Exit" is a modern-day interpretation of the antiquated "fire and brimstone" hell we are so accustomed to ...

Rewrite: A Step-by-Step Guide to Strengthen Structure, Characters, and Drama in your Screenplay

Paul Chitlik

Michael Wiese Productions, 2008

All you need to know
Rewrite covers everything you need to know about making your idea into a screenplay that somebody will want to buy. You know the stakes have to be high, the scenes have to have a point, the protagonist needs to have a goal...but this book tells you HOW to do that, ...

Good in a Room: How to Sell Yourself (and Your Ideas) and Win Over Any Audience

Stephanie Palmer

Doubleday Business, 2008

For everyone - not just sales, not just business
We don't often see everyone giving a book 5 stars - this one deserves it. The other reviewers have touched on some of the important points in the book, don't assume that you can extrapolate and get all the benefits just by reading the reviews - read, re-read, and ...

How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make

Denny Martin Flinn

Lone Eagle, 1999

Best for more intermediate level screenwriters
I found the book extremely helpful - but I would NOT recommend for beginning screenwriters. I've written almost 3 screenplays, and had them critiqued in class. So, I would say that I am an beginner-intermediate level. This book is an excellent resource for those ...

Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

Aeschylus

University Of Chicago Press, 1969

An excellent trilogy
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) is the father of Greek tragedies (one legend reports that Dionysus himself commanded Aeschylus to write them). Of the seventy tragedies that he wrote, only seven have survived to the present day. These three plays form the most complete tetralogy ...