The TV Writer's Workbook
A Creative Approach To Television Scripts
Written by Ellen Sandler

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $16.00

Why is TV writing different from any other kind of writing? How will writing a spec script open doors? What do I have to do to get a job writing for TV? Writing for television is a business. And, like any business, there are proven strategies for success. In this unique... Read more >

Living with Shakespeare
Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Written by Susannah Carson
Foreword by Harold Bloom

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: April 9, 2013
Price: $16.00

Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.

We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming Othello as a tragic... Read more >

The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present

Written by Tim Brooks and Earle F. Marsh

Format: Trade Paperback, 1856 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $29.95

AMERICA’S #1 BESTSELLING TELEVISION BOOK WITH MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES IN PRINT–
NOW REVISED AND UPDATED!

PROGRAMS FROM ALL SEVEN COMMERCIAL BROADCAST NETWORKS, MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED CABLE NETWORKS, PLUS ALL MAJOR SYNDICATED SHOWS!

This is the must-have book for TV viewers in the new millennium–the entire history of primetime programs in... Read more >

Movie-Made America
A Cultural History of American Movies
Written by Robert Sklar

Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
On Sale: December 5, 1994
Price: $21.95

Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values. 80 black-and-white photos. Read more >

The Intent to Live
Achieving Your True Potential as an Actor
Written by Larry Moss

Format: eBook
On Sale: December 28, 2004
Price: $13.99

“I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don’t seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.”
–Larry Moss, from the Introduction

When Oscar-winning actors Helen Hunt and Hilary Swank accepted their Academy Awards, each credited Larry Moss’s guidance as key to their career-making performances. There is a... Read more >

The Conversations
Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 5, 2004
Price: $21.00

The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.

It was... Read more >

Cary Grant
A Biography
Written by Marc Eliot

Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2005
Price: $16.99

Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Cary Grant: A Biography is a complete, nuanced portrait of the greatest star in cinema history. Exploring Grant’s troubled childhood, ambiguous sexuality, and lifelong insecurities, as well as the magical amalgam of characteristics that allowed him to remain Hollywood’s favorite romantic lead for more than thirty-five... Read more >

Acting for Young Actors
For Money Or Just for Fun
Written by Mary Lou Belli and Dinah Lenney

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2006
Price: $16.95

Do you know a teen that's been bitten by the acting bug? Here's just the book they need! Acting for Young Actors, aimed at teens and tweens, lets kids hone their skills and develop their craft. It begins with the five W's: WHO am I? WHAT do I want? WHY do... Read more >

True and False
Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor
Written by David Mamet

Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: February 22, 1999
Price: $14.00

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school. With these words, one of our most brilliantly iconoclastic playwrights takes on the art of profession of acting, in a book that is as shocking as it is practical, as witty as it is instructive, and as irreverent as... Read more >

The Making of Star Wars
The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film
Written by J. W. Rinzler

Format: Hardcover, 372 pages
On Sale: April 24, 2007
Price: $85.00

After the 1973 success of American Graffiti, filmmaker George Lucas made the fateful decision to pursue a longtime dream project: a space fantasy movie unlike any ever produced. Lucas envisioned a swashbuckling SF saga inspired by the Flash Gordon serials classic American westerns, the epic cinema of Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa... Read more >