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Advanced
Screenwriting: Raising Your Script to the Academy Award
Level
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| Linda
Seger, 300 pages, 5 1 / 2 x8 1 / 2 , 1-879505-73-8, $14.95
paper / [can $.95] |
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“Linda’s
technique is a light to see by.” —Ray Bradbury |
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| Screenwriting
Tricks of the Trade |
| William
Froug, 150 pages, 51/2x81/2, 1-879505-13-4, $10.95 paper |
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“I
wish every studio executive, director, producer and agent
in town would read this book…truths is the word that
best characterizes what Bill has written. Not rules, but
truths… I can honestly say that I have built a career
on these few simple truths… It is a book of wisdom
and good, sound advice about the processing f screenwriting…I
recall as a kid, no matter what small item I bought, there
would always be a little piece of paper inside that said, ‘Congratulations!
You have just purchased the finest harmonica (or penknife
or compass) that money can buy!’ And I think that
sentiment applies to Screenwriting Tricks of the
Trade.
… Bill has proven himself to be the screenwriters’ best friend and
advocate. After all, where else except this book will you find the movie E.T. referred
to as ‘Melissa Mathison’s story’ without any mention of you-know-who?”
— from the Forward by Jeffrey Boam |
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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] |
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“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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| Zen
and The Art of Screenwriting 2: More Insights and Interviews |
| William
Froug, 332 pages, 8x8, 1-879505-56-8, $21.95 paper |
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“Three
cheers for Bill Froug, who supports the creative art
of screenwriting and attacks the tired and outmoded ‘structure
workshop’ approach. Great movies need great screenplays,
and great screenplays are not made from formulas. Froug
has had enormous success as a writer, producer, and teacher,
and offers levelheaded advice and penetrating interviews.
He encourages writers to express their own visions, instead
of recycling tired old outlines. Unlike most screenwriting
books, this one could inspire movies I’d actually
love.”
— Roger Ebert
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The
Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting,
and Selling Your Script
3rd Edition—Expanded and Updated |
| David
Trottier, 314 pages, 81/2x11, index, 1-879505-44-4, $19.95
paper |
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“A ‘bible’ for
those of all persuasions. Whether you are a rank beginner
who needs instruction, or an old pro who needs reminding,
you could not do better than David Trottier’s book.
A brilliant effort by a first-class, dedicated teacher.”
— William Kelly, Academy Award-winning Writer, Witness
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| Zen
and The Art of Screenwriting: Insights and Interviews |
| William
Froug, 332 pages, 8x8, 1-879505-31-2, $20.95 paper |
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“A
genius named William Froug has written the essence of
screenwriting, the whys of screenwriting. It’s
a must-read for anyone who has written a hundred screenplays
or has ever had an interest in writing just one. The
true master, Bill Froug, is more than just a teacher—he
is a mentor and an inspiration for myself and countless
others. Don’t even think about sitting in front
of a typewriter until you have read and absorbed this
wonderful book and understood the true essence and inspiration
of a writer.”
— Richard Donner, Director, Inside Moves; Lethal Weapon I, II, & III;
Superman
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| Screenwriting
Updated: New (and Conventional) Ways of Writing for the
Screen |
| Linda
Aronson, 300 pages, 7x10, 1-879505-59-2, $19.95 paper |
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“A
lucid and eminently useful atlas of screenwriting technique.
All the vague confusing things that teachers and studio
executives say about flashback, turning points, and multiple
protagonists are whipped into coherent shape here, in a
comprehensive, precise, and extremely practical theory...an
essential tool in any writer’s kit.”
— Christopher Vogler, author of The Writer’s Journey |
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| The
New Screenwriter Looks At The New Screenwriter |
| William
Froug, 369 pages, 6x9, 1-879505-04-5, $15.95 paper |
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“…incisive
and witty; the collaborative nature of filmmaking in America
never has been so graphically illustrated. An exciting
book, a valuable book.”
— Del Reisman, President, Writers Guild of America, west (1991-1993) |
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| Making
a Good Writer Great: A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters |
| Linda
Seger, 233 pages, 51/2x81/2, 1-879505-49-5, $14.95 paper |
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“As
much a course in creativity as a book on craft, Linda
Seger’s Making a Good Writer Great is
both nurturing and provocative. Holistic and catalytic,
jammed with exercises and thought-provoking queries,
it addresses the artist as well as the art. Any writer,
but especially screenwriters, will be strengthened by
its practical wisdom.”
— Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way
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| The
Screenwriter Looks At The Screenwriter |
| William
Froug, 362 pages, 6x9, 1-879505-01-0, $17.95 paper |
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“The
most intelligent and sympathetic book I know about for
those intense private struggles between the screenwriter
and his imagination. Froug encourages his subject to reveal
insights about the art and the craft of screenwriting that
they may not have otherwise expressed, even to themselves.”
— Roger Ebert |
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| Why
We Write: Personal Statements and Photographic Portraits
of 25 Top Screenwriters |
| Lorian
Tamara Elbert, 233 pages, 9x8, photos, 1-879505-45-2, $22.95
paper |
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“A
feast for the eyes, a feast for the soul. Not for writers
alone, but for all people who love creative expression.”
— Richard Walter, author of Screenwriting and The Whole Picture,
Chairman of UCLA’s Film and Television Writing Program |
| TV
Scriptwriter's Handbook: Dramatic Writing for Television
and Film |
| Alfred
Brenner, 325 pages, 51/2x81/2, 1-879505-10-X, $15.95 paper |
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“… inside
information on the scriptwriter’s craft… an
excellent treatment of the elements of a good script.”
— Library Journal |
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| Comic
Toolbox: How To Be Funny Even If You’re Not |
| John
Vorhaus, 250 pages, 6x9, 1-879505-21-5, $14.95 paper |
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“Vorhaus
has successfully organized and presented the comedy writing
process—no easy feat, considering it’s hard
enough to do in your own brain, let alone on the page.”
— Jeff Vlaming, writer, Northern Exposureent, UCLA School of Film and Television,
and author of Lew Hunter’s Screenwriting 434
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