Writing Short Films
Structure and Content for Screenwriters
Written by Linda J. Cowgill

Format: Trade Paperback, 275 pages
On Sale: September 1, 2005
Price: $19.95

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Strike the Baby and Kill the Blonde
An Insider's Guide to Film Slang
Written by Dave Knox

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 23, 2005
Price: $14.00

Everything You Need to Know to Become a Film-Industry Insider

Have you ever wondered what the difference is between a gaffer and a grip? Or what makes the best boy so great? In Strike the Baby and Kill the Blonde,* Dave Knox, a top camera operator and longtime veteran of the film... Read more >

Before Sunrise & Before Sunset
Two Screenplays
Written by Richard Linklater

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $15.95

   In one volume, the screenplays to two contemporary classics, directed by Richard Linklater, and starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, about the immediate and life-altering attraction between two strangers.

   On a train from Budapest to Vienna, Jesse, a young American student, at the end of a romance and his European trip, meets... Read more >

Adaptations
From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films
Written by Stephanie Harrison

Format: Trade Paperback, 640 pages
On Sale: April 26, 2005
Price: $18.00

An Eclectic Collection of Fiction That Inspired Film

Memento, All About Eve, Rear Window, Rashomon, and 2001: A Space Odyssey are all well-known and much-loved movies, but what is perhaps a lesser-known fact is that all of them began their lives as short stories. Adaptations gathers together 35 pieces that have been... Read more >

Revenge of the Sith: Illustrated Screenplay: Star Wars: Episode III

Written by George Lucas

Format: eBook, 200 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2005
Price: $7.99

EPISODE III–THE ONE AND ONLY OFFICIAL SCREENPLAY, available exclusively in ebook format, including scenes that did not appear in the movie itself!

This is the complete, final screenplay written by George Lucas, as brought to life before the cameras by a stellar cast of performers and an unparalleled team of special... Read more >

The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

Written by J. W. Rinzler

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2005
Price: $24.95

This is it–the climax of the greatest science fiction movie epic of all time, and Star Wars fans can venture behind the scenes for all the fascinating details. From the first story discussions to the final stages of post production, The Making of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith is an... Read more >

San Francisco Noir

Written by Nathaniel Rich

Format: Trade Paperback, 168 pages
On Sale: March 31, 2005
Price: $17.95

All cities have their secrets, but none are so dark as San Francisco's, the city that Ambrose Bierce famously described as "a point upon a map of fog." With its reputation as a shadowy land of easy vice and hard virtue, San Francisco provided the ideal setting for many of the... Read more >

Hollywood Animal

Written by Joe Eszterhas

Format: Trade Paperback, 752 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2005
Price: $25.00

Joe Eszterhas had everything Hollywood could offer. A combination of insider and rebel, he saw and participated in the fights, the deals, the backstabbing, and all the sex and drugs. But here, in his candid and heartwrenching memoir, we see the rest of the story: the inspiring account of the child of Hungarian... Read more >

The Ultimate Guide to Chick Flicks
The Romance, the Glamour, the Tears, and More!
Written by Kim Adelman

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $12.95

A must-have guide to the most underrated films of all time: chick flicks!

Whether you need to heal a broken heart, have a case of the “mean reds,” or are just yearning for a cozy night at home, nothing is more satisfying than a good chick flick. Now there’s finally a book...

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Cinema Nirvana
Enlightenment Lessons from the Movies
Written by Dean Sluyter

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: February 22, 2005
Price: $14.00

Movie fans and spiritual seekers, unite! In Cinema Nirvana, meditation teacher and award-winning film critic Dean Sluyter illuminates the hidden enlightenment teachings of Casablanca, Jaws, The Graduate, The Godfather, Memento, and ten other classic films, revealing spiritual wisdom in everything from 007’s secret weapons to the colors of the Seven Dwarfs’... Read more >

The Big Picture
The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood
Written by Edward Jay Epstein

Format: eBook
On Sale: February 15, 2005
Price: $13.99

During the heyday of the studio system spanning the 1930s, ‘40s, and ‘50s, virtually all the American motion picture industry’s money, power, and prestige came from a single activity: selling tickets at the box office. Today, the movie business is just a small, highly visible outpost in a media universe controlled... Read more >

Hollywood: The Movie Lover's Guide
The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie L.A.
Written by Richard Alleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2005
Price: $17.99

The classic guide to who-did-what-where in Los Angeles, on- and off-screen, including:

Film & TV locations: the Hollywood Hills house where Barbara Stanwyck seduced Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity...the funky apartment building where William Holden lived in Sunset Boulevard...the exotic Frank Lloyd Wright mansion that's housed everyone from Harrison Ford in Blade... Read more >

New York: The Movie Lover's Guide
The Ultimate Insider Tour of Movie New York
Written by Richard Alleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: February 1, 2005
Price: $17.99

The classic guide to who-did-what-where in New York, on- and off-screen, including:

Classic film and TV locations: Marilyn Monroe’s infamous Seven Year Itch subway grating . . . the deli where Meg Ryan famously faked an orgasm in When Harry Met Sally . . . the diner where Courteney Cox (in... Read more >

The Scarecrow Video Movie Guide

Written by Scarecrow Video

Format: Trade Paperback, 832 pages
On Sale: October 12, 2004
Price: $24.95

Scarecrow is to video stores as The Elliott Bay Book Co. is to bookstores: independent, iconoclastic, and obsessed. With more than 60,000 titles in a single outlet, it's a paradise frequented by serious movie lovers and staffed by movie freaks. Loaded with a deep appreciation and understanding of movies, these fanatics... 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 >

Breakfast with Sharks
A Screenwriter's Guide to Getting the Meeting, Nailing the Pitch, Signing the Deal, and Navigating the Murky Waters of Hollywood
Written by Michael Lent

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2004
Price: $15.99

What They Didn’t Teach You in Your Screenwriting Course

Screenwriters, listen up! Breakfast with Sharks is not a book about the craft of screenwriting. This is a book about the business of managing your screenwriting career, from advice on choosing an agent to tips on juggling three deal-making breakfasts a day. Prescriptive... Read more >

Caught in the Web
Dreaming Up the World of Spider-Man 2
Written by Mark Vaz

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 25, 2004
Price: $19.95

The Spider-Man 2 Dream Machine—from original idea to final cut— unmasking the creative genius at work in the blockbuster movie

The epic adventure of one of the greatest superheroes of all time explodes on the silver screen as never before. Now, in this captivating journey behind the scenes and into the imagination... Read more >

Heroes, Lovers, and Others
The Story of Latinos in Hollywood
Written by Clara Rodriguez

Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 17, 2004
Price: $26.95

Heroes, Lovers, and Others tells the fascinating history of Latinos in film, from the birth of the movies to the present, through a series of stories about Hollywood’s most famous and enduring stars. The book features such Latino legends as Dolores del Rio, Rita Hayworth, Ramon Navarro, Desi Arnaz, Anthony Quinn... Read more >

The Mailroom
Hollywood History from the Bottom Up
Written by David Rensin

Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: February 3, 2004
Price: $17.00

It’s like a plot from a Hollywood potboiler: start out in the mailroom, end up a mogul. But for many, it happens to be true. Some of the biggest names in entertainment—including David Geffen, Barry Diller, and Michael Ovitz— started their dazzling careers in the lowly mailroom. Based on more than... Read more >

The Great Movies

Written by Roger Ebert

Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2003
Price: $17.95

America’s most trusted and best-known film critic Roger Ebert presents one hundred brilliant essays on some of the best movies ever made. 

For the past five years Roger Ebert, the famed film writer and critic, has been writing biweekly essays for a feature called "The Great Movies," in which he offers... Read more >

Celluloid Skyline
New York and the Movies
Written by James Sanders

Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $29.95

A tale of two cities -- both called "New York."

The first is a real city, an urban agglomeration of millions. The second is a mythic city, so rich in memory and association and sense of place that to people everywhere it has come to seem real: the New York of such... Read more >

Screenplay Workbook
The Writing Before the Writing
Written by Jeremy Robinson and Tom Mungovan

Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2003
Price: $18.95

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Nobody's Perfect
Writings from The New Yorker
Written by Anthony Lane

Format: Trade Paperback, 784 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $25.00

Anthony Lane on Con Air—

“Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in... Read more >