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Authorship Marketing Mermaids Fiction Motion picture authorship Motion pictures Appreciation Periodicals Directories Popular culture History and criticism Publishers and publishing Directories Screenwriters Fiction Television authorship United States Vocational guidance Women FictionSummary: FADE IN: A stage, upon which sit award-winning playwright and screenwriter Mark St. Germain, two-time Emmy-nominated Freaks and Geeks creator and writer Paul Feig, actor and writer Bobby Garabedian, and producer Belen Santos. In two straight-talking forums, they advise today's flock of would-be screenwriters on what makes a character compelling, how plot points should be used in a three-act...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2003
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Field, Syd.
Summary: A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field's bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film. Now the celebrated producer/lecturer/teacher has updated his classic guide for a new generation of filmmakers, offering a fresh insider's perspective on the film industry today. From concept to character, from opening scene to finished script, here are easily understood guidelines to help...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Trade Paperbacks 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harpercollins 0000
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Place a hold to request this item.Saenz, Bob
Summary: You want to be a screenwriter. You've read all the screenwriting books. But you're left wanting more.Here is a fresh book written by a screenwriter who has spent years in the trenches. That's Not The Way It Works is a no holds barred look at the craft and business of screenwriting, told in a "let's sit down and chat over a cup (or pot) of coffee" manner. So grab a cup of coffee and start...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bob Saenz 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.23 ENGSummary: Writer's Market 2019 guides you through the process of getting paid to write with thousands of publishing opportunities for writers, including listings for book publishers, consumer and trade magazines, contests and awards, and literary agents, as well as new playwriting and screenwriting sections. These listings feature contact and submission information to help writers get their work...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Writer's Digest Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 WRI1 available in Reference, Call number: R 808 WRI
Miller, Arthur
Summary: For Arthur Miller's centennial year, The Library of America and editor Tony Kushner present the final volume in the definitive collected edition of the essential American dramatist. Here are eleven masterful, haunting, funny, and provocative later plays, from the double-bill Danger: Memory (1987) to Finishing the Picture (2004), Miller’s final stage work, based loosely on events around the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 812 MILHauck, Rachel
Summary: 1781: Hamilton Lightfoot witnessed the death of his family at the hands of redcoats, and fears he'll fight for revenge instead of honor. He pens a letter to Esther Longfellow; they're in love, but her father is a loyalist, living in upcountry South Carolina and working for a wealthy British lord. Present: Chloe Daschle is the queen of death scenes; trying to break out, she accepts a supporting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HAUWeber, Robby
Summary: "Harry wants nothing more than to write Hollywood screenplays. He knows the first step toward achieving that goal is winning a screenwriting competition that will seal his admission into the college of his dreams, so he's determined to spend his summer free of distractions--also known as boys--and finish his script. After last year, Harry is certain love only exists in the movies anyway. But...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkyard Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WEBSummary: Fascinated with comic books as a boy, Chris Columbus set his sights on working for Marvel or DC-until he realized that making movies provided the same thrill, only more so. This program allows viewers to sit down with the director and hear his recollections of breaking into Hollywood, making hit films, and working with high-caliber talent. Columbus talks about his early screenwriting efforts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: For the cost of tuition, an independent filmmaker could do a feature-length movie-so why go to film school? Three film students at Columbia and New York Universities, along with NYU alumnus Spike Lee, talk about why school was right for them and how academic experience helps them as filmmakers. The strengths and differences of the two schools are discussed by numerous professors, including Mary...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Russo, Richard
Summary: "In this pair of novellas and two stories, Russo's characters bear little similarity to the blue-collar citizens we're familiar with from most of his novels. In "Horseman," a tenured professor confronts a young plagiarist as well as her own weaknesses as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches--"And after that, who knew?" In "Intervention," a realtor facing an ominous medical prognosis finds...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUSHaddad, Michael.
Summary: Written for both new and experienced writers, this comprehensive marketing guide offers advice and tips needed by writers to succeed in the film and television industries. Focusing on the business of writing, it gives writers the unabashed truth about the film industry, and advice on how to get scripts to the gatekeepers of the studios and read by agents. Comprehensive listings of contests,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.23 HADLangbein, Julia
Summary: "A brilliantly funny and razor-tongued debut which follows a writer lured to Los Angeles to adapt her feminist mermaid novel into a big-budget action film, who believes her heroine has come to life to take revenge for Hollywood's violations. Penelope Schleeman, a consistently broke Connecticut high school teacher, is as surprised as anyone when her sensitive debut novel, "American Mermaid"-the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023