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What Happens Next
Crown Publishing Group 2008; US$ 17.95Screenwriters have always been viewed as Hollywood?s stepchildren. Silent-film comedy pioneer Mack Sennett forbade his screenwriters from writing anything down, for fear they?d get inflated ideas about themselves as creative artists. The great midcentury director John Ford was known to answer studio executives? complaints that he was behind schedule... more...
Dean and Me
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.99They were the unlikeliest of pairs?a handsome crooner and a skinny monkey, an Italian from Steubenville, Ohio, and a Jew from Newark, N.J.. Before they teamed up, Dean Martin seemed destined for a mediocre career as a nightclub singer, and Jerry Lewis was dressing up as Carmen Miranda and miming records on stage. But the moment they got together, something... more...
Screenplay
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script.. Here are easily understood guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints the structural and stylistic elements essential to every good screenplay. He presents a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for... more...
Breakfast with Sharks
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.99What They Didn?t Teach You in Your Screenwriting Course Screenwriters, listen up! Breakfast with Sharks is not a book about the craft of screenwriting. This is a book about the business of managing your screenwriting career, from advice on choosing an agent to tips on juggling three deal-making breakfasts a day. Prescriptive and useful, Breakfast... more...
The 100 Best Movies You've Never Seen
ECW Press 2003; US$ 10.95Offbeat movie buffs, discerning video renters, and critical viewers will benefit from this roll call of the best overlooked films of the last 70 years. Richard Crouse, film critic and host of television?s award-winning Reel to Real , details his favorite films, from the sublime Monsoon Wedding to the ridiculous Eegah! The Name Written in Blood... more...
Cell Block Z
Grand Central Publishing 2009; US$ 9.99To his fans, Cole Dennis is a heavyweight contender with a devastating right hook. To a city being held hostage to chaos and terror, Dennis has a grit and charisma that make him the shining hope for justice--until he is arrested for a brutal murder. Framed for a crime he did not commit, he finds himself captive in a foreboding high-tech superprison... more...
The Power of Movies
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00How is watching a movie similar to dreaming? What goes on in our minds when we become absorbed in a movie? How does looking ?into? a movie screen allow us to experience the thoughts and feelings of a movie?s characters? These and related questions are at the heart of The Power of Movies, a thoughtful, invigorating, and remarkably accessible book... more...
The Coen Brothers
ECW Press 2000; US$ 10.95With the smash success of Fargo, the filmmaking team of Joel and Ethan Coen finally received their deserved recognition. But well before that the two brothers were writing and directing terrific films - from the film-noir thriller Blood Simple, to the comedy Raising Arizona, to the gangster epic Miller's Crossing. With each film they have surprised... more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classic Movies
Alpha Books 2006; US$ 18.95Sit back, grab some popcorn, and let the credits roll. The Complete Idiot?s Guide® to Classic Movies provides comprehensive information on the best classic films from the silent era up through 1969, cross-referenced several different ways for easy access. Also contains fun, ?insider? trivia and facts about the movies, the stars, and factors... more...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Independent Filmmaking
DK Publishing 2004; US$ 18.95Designed for people who want to tell a story their way, 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Indpendent Filmmaking explains everything a budding auteur needs to know, from literary development and financial and organizational pre-production to principal photography production, post-production assembly, exhibition and distribution, and more. The advent of... more...









