Award-winning screenwriter and legendary UCLA and Loyola Marymount professor Paul Chitlik has taught thousands of students how to write their first script. This book recreates the classroom experience at a top film school, guiding you through each phase of the writing process with clear lessons and practical assignments.
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.
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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