The Reel Civil War
Mythmaking in American Film
Written by Bruce Chadwick

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 3, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70832-9 (0-375-70832-4)

During the late nineteenth century, magazines, newspapers, novelists, and even historians presented a revised version of the Civil War that, intending to reconcile the former foes, downplayed the issues of slavery and racial injustice, and often promoted and reinforced the worst racial stereotypes. The Reel Civil War tells the history of... Read more >

Conversations with Wilder

Written by Cameron Crowe

Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 25, 2001
Price: $22.50
ISBN: 978-0-375-70967-8 (0-375-70967-3)

Here, in an extraordinary book with more than 650 black-and-white photographs -- including film posters, stills, grabs, and never-before-seen pictures from Wilder's own collection -- the ninety-three-year-old icon talks to Cameron Crowe, one of today's best-known writer-directors, about thirty years at the very heart of Hollywood, and about screenwriting and camera... Read more >

Monster
Living Off the Big Screen
Written by John Gregory Dunne

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 17, 1998
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-75024-3 (0-375-75024-X)

John Gregory Dunne--journalist, novelist, and screenwriter--gives students an intimate, accurate account of Hollywood, offering a riveting expose of life and work in the movie industry.  In 1988 Dunne and his wife, Joan Didion, were asked to write a screenplay about the dark and complicated life of the late TV anchorwoman, Jessica Savitch.  Eight... Read more >

Four Screenplays
Studies in the American Screenplay
Written by Syd Field

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: August 1, 1994
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-440-50490-0 (0-440-50490-2)

Field examines four groundbreaking contemporary classics "Thelma and Louise," "Terminator 2: Judgement Day," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Dances with Wolves" to show how a great script is written. This book includes a frame-by-frame analysis, as well as in-depth interviews with the four screenwriters.

"This is one of the very best... Read more >

The Screenwriter's Problem Solver
How to Recognize, Identify, and Define Screenwriting Problems
Written by Syd Field

Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-440-50491-7 (0-440-50491-0)

Bestselling author Syd Field, who works on over 1,000 screenplays a year, shows students how to identify and fix common screenwriting problems. Students will learn to: understand what makes great stories work; make their screenplay work in the first ten pages, using such hits as "Pulp Fiction," "Thelma & Louise" and... Read more >

Selling a Screenplay
The Screenwriter's Guide to Hollywood
Written by Syd Field

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: November 1, 1989
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-440-50244-9 (0-440-50244-6)

This book, an essential guide for every writer, is filled with frank, real-life advice from producers, agents, and screenwriters about what sells, how to pitch a product, developing a marketing strategy, how to get an agent, and much more.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface, Introduction, Part I: Buyers and Sellers; 1. The Market; 2... Read more >

Which Lie Did I Tell?
More Adventures in the Screen Trade
Written by William Goldman

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 20, 2001
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70319-5 (0-375-70319-5)

William Goldman's Adventures in the Screen Trade was a classic for moviephiles, revealing all the secrets behind the business of the big screen. Now, screenwriter extraordinaire Goldman returns to give us the latest lowdown on Hollywood moviemaking. He dishes the dirt, adventure by adventure, from his most recent films -- the... Read more >

How to Write a Selling Screenplay

Written by Christopher Keane

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: April 13, 1998
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-0071-3 (0-7679-0071-5)

The author shows writers how to tap into their creative juices, taking them from conception through the writing and revising process. Read more >

The Back Stage Guide to Stage Management, 3rd Edition
Traditional and New Methods for Running a Show from First Rehearsal to Last Performance
Written by Thomas A. Kelly

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Back Stage Books
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-8230-9802-6 (0-8230-9802-8)

The Most Widely Used Manual For Aspiring And Veteran Stage Managers - Now Revised and Expanded


The next best thing to shadowing a Broadway stage manager, this detailed, behind-the-scenes book as been brought completely up to date. First published in 1991, it is widely used and has been lauded as the most... Read more >

Something Like An Autobiography

Written by Akira Kurosawa

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 12, 1983
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-71439-4 (0-394-71439-3)

Translated by Audie E. Bock.

"A first rate book and a joy to read... It's doubtful that a complete understanding of the director's artistry can be obtained without reading this book.... Also indispensable for budding directors are the addenda, in which Kurosawa lays out his beliefs on the primacy of a good... Read more >

What Happens Next
A History of American Screenwriting
Written by Marc Norman

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
On Sale: September 30, 2008
Price: $17.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-39388-3 (0-307-39388-7)

“Fascinating.”
—Los Angeles Times

A brilliant, wildly entertaining history of Hollywood from the screenwriters’ perspective

In this truly fresh take on the movies, veteran Oscar-winning screenwriter Marc Norman gives us the first comprehensive history of the men and women who penned some of the greatest movies of all time. Impeccably researched, erudite, and filled... Read more >