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Screenplay: Writing the Picture
Robin U. Russin and William Missouri Downs, 445 pages, 7x10, index, 1-879505-70-3, $21.95 paper / [can $34.95]

“From nuts and bolts to heart and soul, this book has it all . . . It’s as close to a screenwriting bible as you’re likely to find.”
— Mike Colleary, screenwriter, Face/Off

“ This is the best book on screenwriting today—even better than my own! If there’s one book to buy after Aristotle’s Poetics, it’s Screenplay: Writing the Picture.”
— Lew Hunter, screenwriter, producer, co-chairman of the screenwriting department, UCLA School of Film and Television, and author of Lew Hunter’s Screenwriting 434
 
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Screenplay is a complete screenwriting course—from developing a theme, researching a story, plotting and structuring a script, developing characters, and plying methods that aid the actual writing and rewriting processes through understanding the ins and outs of marketing and pitching scripts.

Well-written, comprehensive, and filled with illustrative screenplay examples, both innovative and tried-and-true writing techniques, sage advice from veteran writers, and pertinent writing anecdotes, this one-of-a-kind screenwriting book will help both novices and working screenwriters improve and sell their scripts.

Robin U. Russin is an award-winning screenwriter, playwright, producer, and is a professor of screenwriting at the University of California, Riverside. Among his film credits is the number one box-office feature On Deadly Ground.

William Missouri Downs is a film and television writer and an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced at the Kennedy Center. He is the author of the book Playwriting: From Formula to Form.