This book is a detailed guide to creating complex female characters for film and television. Written for screen storytellers of any level, this book will help screenwriters and filmmakers recognize complicated portrayals of women on screen and evaluate the complexity of their own characters.
In Perplexing Plots, David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. This book offers an ambitious new understanding of how movies, literature, theater, and popular culture have evolved over the past century.
Award-winning screenwriters reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology through interviews with world-renowned UCLA screenwriting professor Lew Hunter.
In a world awash in screenwriting books, The Science of Screenwriting provides an alternative approach that will help the aspiring screenwriter navigate this mass of often contradictory advice: exploring the science behind storytelling strategies.
This book provides a concise course in screenwriting basics that walks you through the complete writing process, from nascent ideas through final revisions. It also includes a formatting guide that thoroughly covers today's correct formats for screenplays and TV scripts.
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