"Ever watch a movie, and despite great production value, fantastic action sequences, a great cast, etc, you come away thinking-I just didn't buy it. Chances are it was because you didn't care about the characters. Screenwriter's Compass presents a new way of approaching screenwr…
Ever watch a movie, and despite great production value, fantastic action sequences, a great cast, etc, you come away thinking-I just didn't buy it. Chances are it was because you didn't care about the characters. Screenwriter's Compass presents a new way of approaching screenwri…
Using his unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives and its trove of never-before-published "lost": interviews, photos, production notes, factoids, and anecdotes, Star Wars scholar J.W. Rinzler hurtles readers back in time for a one-of-a-kind behind-the-scenes look at the n…
Expanding practices in audiovisual narrative
"Sunset Boulevard (1950) is one of the most famous films in the history of Hollywood, and perhaps no film better represents Hollywood's vision of itself. Billy Wilder collaborated on the screenplay with the very able Charles Brackett, and with D.M. Marshman Jr., who later joined…
Gathered together in English, this volume contains all of Brecht's theoretical writing about film, radio broadcasting and the new media written between 1919 and 1956. Most of the material has never before appeared in English.
Brecht on film and radio
by Brecht, Bertolt (, Silberman, Marc D.
fromBrecht's plays, poetry and prose
"Bertolt Brecht's hugely influential views on drama, acting and stage production have long been widely recognised. Less familiar, but of profound importance, are his writings on film and radio. This volume presents for the first time a full account of Brecht's theoretical and cr…
Brecht on film and radio
by Brecht, Bertolt (, Silberman, Marc
fromDiaries, letters and essays
From Weimar Germany to Hollywood to East Berlin, Brecht on Film and Radio gathers together a selection of Bertolt Brecht's own writings on the new film and broadcast media that revolutionised arts and communication in the twentieth century. Bertolt Brecht's hugely influential vi…
A courageous look at a historic figure. From Oscar®-winner Oliver Stone, Snowden is a riveting personal look at one of the most polarizing figures of the 21st century, the man responsible for what has been described as the most far-reaching security breach in U.S. intelligence h…