This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran who's proven that you can sell your script if you can save the cat!
In Collected Stories, playwright Donald Margulies explores the vexed emotional and legal question of a writer's right to create art from the biographical material of another person's life--particularly when that other person is also a writer.
An off-hand speculation by ex-pat and professor, David Moran, sends his celebrated historian colleague, Graham Guade, on an investigation that peels back American use of, and protection for, Japanese doctors who committed unspeakable medical experiments in WWII.
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence.
Scripting Hitchcock explores the collaborative process between Alfred Hitchcock and the screenwriters he hired to write the scripts for three of his greatest films: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie.
The Works of Shonda Rhimes, the first book in Bloomsbury's Screen Storytellers series, brings together a collection of essays that look critically at the works of this award-winning writer, producer, and CEO of the global media company, Shondaland.
Offering a definitive approach by which any individual may learn to unleash the power of the personal, this book provides the reader with an exhaustive guide on how to tell the stories they're uniquely qualified to tell.
Patti Miller's best-selling Writing True Stories is the essential book for anyone who has ever wanted to write a memoir or explore the wider territory of creative nonfiction.
Bringing together interviews with some of the most highly esteemed verse novelists writing for young adults and children today, DiVERSE develops an understanding of the poetics of the verse novel genre.
Putting a vision on the page for creative and commercial video is harder than it seems, but author Carey Martin explains how to bring these tools to bear in the "e;work for hire"e; environment.
This revised and updated edition of The Creative Writing Handbook now includes new chapters on writing for stage and radio and on writing screenplays for film and television.
In February 1999, Steven Sater conceived the radical notion of creating a rock musical from Frank Wedekind's notorious Symbolist drama, Fruhlings Erwachen, and he enlisted his friend and writing partner Duncan Sheik in the enterprise.
Aristoteles' 'Über die Dichtkunst' ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk, das nicht nur als eine der bedeutendsten Abhandlungen über Literatur gilt, sondern auch bis heute als grundlegend für das Verständnis der Poetik betrachtet wird.
In 'Wie es euch gefällt', einer zweiseitigen Ausgabe mit deutschem und englischem Text, entführt uns William Shakespeare in eine Welt voller Intrigen, Liebe und Verwechslungen.
Honest, raw and very funny, this book will take you on an emotional joyride through a screenwriter's creative processes, her pitfalls and breakthroughs, where the boundaries between art and life are blurred.
'THE FRENCH SUSPENSE KING' New York Times'It's no wonder that Musso is one of France's most loved, bestselling authors'Harlan CobenIn 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a wild and beautiful island off the Mediterranean coast.
To the Budding Creative Writer: A Handbook is designed to help young writers come to grips with questions and problems relative to their creative efforts.
The Creative Writing Compass presents a dynamic navigational instrument for creative writers and those learning to be creative writers, providing a method for developing and advancing knowledge of creative writing.
Este volumen participa del conjunto de textos denominado por el autor "Tetralogía hemingwayana" y que lleva por título general "Hemingway, pasión y acción".
Nuevas relaciones con el conocimiento, nuevas instituciones, nuevos reglamentos, nuevos textos, nuevas discusiones: el ingreso a los estudios superiores constituye un complejo desafío para la pedagogía del nivel que debe asumir este trayecto de formación de los estudiantes como una problemática específica.
Muchos fantasmas agobian a quienes deben escribir textos académicos o no académicos: entre los más recurrentes, el ideal de la escritura perfecta o la convicción de que un texto bien concebido se escribe "de un tirón" y es reflejo fiel de la claridad de ideas y del talento natural… En esta versión actualizada y ampliada del Manual de escritura para científicos sociales, Howard Becker, cuyas obras de metodología son un clásico desde hace décadas, apela a su experiencia como sociólogo, como docente en seminarios de escritura y como editor, a fin de desmontar una a una esas fantasías que no hacen sino entorpecer y dilatar la producción de textos.
Los estudiantes escriben mal, no logran salirse de sus modismos del lenguaje oral, no saben citar la bibliografía, ¡escriben barbaridades en los exámenes!
Aunque el imaginario colectivo lo ubique en las antípodas, el periodismo se encuentra muy cerca de la literatura: por el uso de la palabra, por el uso de las estructuras y, sobre todo, por el uso de los recursos.
Panorama de los centros y programas de escritura en Latinoamérica, editado por Violeta Molina Natera, es un libro particularmente importante que merece una amplia audiencia.
