Film scripts and screenplays

Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced.

Navigating through the challenging process of writing a comedy pilot, this book will help screenwriters to create an original script for television.

Bringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work.

Wie erzählt man eine originelle filmische Geschichte?

Told from the perspective of a Hollywood executive with nearly 20 years' experience professionally pitching and distributing film/TV projects, Mastering the Pitch reveals all the nuanced details of the pitching process.

Otto Preminger said the history of the cinema was divided into two eras: one before and one after Rome Open City (Roma Citt Aperta, 1945).

A sharp, funny book about comedy screenwriting from a successful screenwriter that uses recent - as in this century - movies you've actually seen as examples.

This book presents a new, story-based approach to cinematic coverage and storytelling in film and video.

Since films were first produced, adapted works have predominantly borrowed primarily from traditional texts, such as novels and plays.

This book offers the first international look at how script development is theorised and practiced.

Bringing together professional standards, practices, and jargon from across the industry, Scripting Media provides a complete overview of writing for divergent forms of media.

Once regarded as a system in decline, public service broadcasters have acquired renewed legitimacy in the digital environment, as drivers of digital take-up, innovators and trusted brands.

TV Outside the Box: Trailblazing in the Digital Television Revolution explores the new and exploding universe of on-demand, OTT (Over the Top) networks: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Crackle, CW Seed, Vimeo, AwesomenessTV, and many more.

Storytelling for Film and Television is a theory and practice book which offers a definitive introduction to the art of storytelling through writing, directing, and editing.

This book provides aspiring screenwriters with a practical and informed way to learn how to think and write like a "e;creative"e;.

Anna Kornbluh provides an overview of Marxist approaches to film, with particular attention to three central concepts in Marxist theory in general that have special bearing on film: "e;the mode of production,"e; "e;ideology,"e; and "e;mediation.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Robert Bresson, one of the most respected and acclaimed directors in the history of cinema.

David Lynch wurde berühmt durch Filme wie ›Blue Velvet‹ und ›Dune‹ oder die Serie ›Twin Peaks‹.

Want to know what it's like to write for a theme park attraction?

This book looks at the most important part of the filmmaking process from the point of view of those who grind away at a keyboard or notepad trying to bring new ideas and perspectives to an increasingly diversified world.

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like-and by doing so celebrates creative practice as an important pursuit in the contemporary academic landscape.

This book is a detailed guide to creating complex female characters for film and television.

This book provides aspiring screenwriters with a practical and informed way to learn how to think and write like a "e;creative"e;.

This study provides the first detailed contrast between the experiences of reading a novel and watching a movie.

With On Screen Writing, director Edward Dmytryk offers a clear, methodical overview of the needs, practices, and problems of screenwriting, including extensive coverage of adaptation.

In "e;Scripts That Captivate: A Guide to Writing and Selling TV Ideas,"e; veteran screenwriter and industry insider Frank P.

Recent years have seen an astonishing growth in the adaptation of program formats in television systems across the world.

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing addresses all three genres of dramatic writing - for theatre, film and TV - in a comprehensive, one-semester, 14-week masterclass for the dramatic writer.

TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era takes a deep dive into writing for today's audiences, against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving TV ecosystem.

This thorough account of the life and films of the Spanish-Basque filmmaker Julio Medem is the first book in English on the internationally renowned writer-director of Vacas, La ardilla roja (Red Squirrel), Tierra, Los amantes del Circulo Polar (Lovers of the Arctic Circle), Lucia y el sexo (Sex and Lucia), La pelota vasca: la piel contra la piedra (Basque Ball) and Caotica Ana (Chaotic Ana),Initial chapters explore Medem's childhood, adolescence and education and examine his earliest short films and critical writings against a background of a dramatically changing Spain.

The majority of scholarly treatments for film adaptation are put forth by experts on film and film analysis, thus with the focus being on film.

Recently, scholars in a variety of disciplines-including philosophy, film and media studies, and literary studies-have become interested in the aesthetics, definition, and ontology of the screenplay.

Screenplay: Building Story Through Character is designed to help screenwriters turn simple or intricate ideas into exciting, multidimensional film narratives with fully-realized characters.

Bringing together professional standards, practices, and jargon from across the industry, Scripting Media provides a complete overview of writing for divergent forms of media.

Through a series of carefully designed writing workshops, this book guides the screenwriter through the messy creativity of screenwriting.

Volume 10 in the Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) series presents some of the latest research results in the implementation of functional programming languages and the practice of functional programming.

Alex de la Iglesia, initially championed by Pedro Almodovar, and at one time the enfant terrible of Spanish film, still makes film critics nervous.

How to Write a Horror Movie is a close look at an always-popular (but often disrespected) genre.

This book offers a solution to one of film history's major controversies: the long-running dispute over Orson Welles' and Herman J.

Screenplay: Building Story Through Character is designed to help screenwriters turn simple or intricate ideas into exciting, multidimensional film narratives with fully-realized characters.

This is a clear, accessible manual of storytelling techniques and learning activities for spatial computing, augmented reality and mixed reality.

Federico Fellini s script for perhaps the most famous unmade film in Italian cinema, The Journey of G.

Basics Film-Making: Screenwriting is the second in the Basics Film-Making series and is aimed both at students on film production courses, as well as those wishing to write a short film.

The Film Novelist is the first primer on writing film novels- whether you are a beginning novelist, a seasoned writer wanting to cross over into script/novel writing, or a creative writing teacher looking for proven ways to launch new writers.

The majority of scholarly treatments for film adaptation are put forth by experts on film and film analysis, thus with the focus being on film.

This book provides an overview of the growing field of screenwriting research and is essential reading for both those new to the field and established screenwriting scholars.

This is the first introduction of its kind to an important cross-section of postcolonial African filmmakers from the 1950s to the present.