"Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV is a practical guide that provides screenwriters with a clear set of exercises, tools, and methods to raise your ability to hear and discern conversation at a more complex level, in turn allowing you to create better, more nuanced, co…
Films are not only visual, they are visceral; they allow an audience to feel the unfolding drama and psychologically connect with the characters. Even for the screenwriter, the experience of writing a film can be deeply moving, where a range of character emotions are assimilated…
Screenwriting and the power of the protagonist's journey. Introduction. -- Exploring the duality of a screenplay narrative. -- Mythology and the hero's journey. -- Exploring the hero's journey. -- Re-defining the hero's journey into a new model for screenwriting. -- Conclusion. …
"The Collaborative Director: A Department-by-Department Guide to Filmmaking explores the directorial process in a way that allows the director to gather the best ideas from the departments that make up a film crew, while making sure that it's the director's vision being shown on…
"Directing the Documentary is the definitive book on the documentary form, that will allow you to master the craft of documentary filmmaking. Focusing on the hands-on work needed to make your concept a reality. It covers the documentary filmmaking process from top to bottom, pro…
"A friendly, hands-on training manual and reference for lighting technicians in motion picture and television production, this handbook is the most comprehensive guide to set lighting available. It provides a unique combination of practical detail with a big-picture understandin…
In Film Narratology, Peter W.J. Verstraten makes film narratives his primary focus, while noting the unexplored and essentially different narrative effects that film can produce with mise-en-scCne, cinematography, and editing.
""I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" Those words, spoken by an unhinged anchorman named Howard Beale, "the mad prophet of the airwaves," took America by storm in 1976, when Network became a sensation. With a superb cast (including Faye Dunaway, William Hol…
""Screenwriting for neurotics" is a quirky and accessible handbook for beginning screenwriters. Whether you are a student in a screenwriting class or just someone who wants to try their hand at writing for film or television, this handy guidebook makes the entire process simple …
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Openings: Thinking Cinema -- 1. Medium: Liquid Image, Fluid Cinema -- 2. Montage: Essayistic Thinking at the Juncture of Images -- 3. Genre: The Speck of Irony and the Ethnolandscape in Ruins -- 4. Temporality:…
