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Derek Jarman's Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love. "For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions." -Derek Jarman Originally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's death due to an AIDS-related illness, Blue is a daring and powerful work of art. The film - and this highly-anticipated book's text - serve as iconoclastic responses to the lack of political engagement with the AIDS crisis. Written poetically and surrealistically, Jarman's text moves through myriad scenes, some banal, others fantastical. Stories of quotidian life--getting coffee, reading the newspaper, and walking down the sidewalk--escalate to visions of Marco Polo, the Taj Mahal, or blue fighting yellow. Facing death and a cascade of pills, Jarman presents his illness in delirium and metaphors. He contemplates the physicality of emotions in lyrical prose as he grounds this story in the constant return to Blue - a color, a feeling, a funk. Michael Charlesworth's compelling introduction brings Blue into conversation with Jarman's visual paintings as never before.

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You don't have to attend film school to take a screenwriting course with the master teacher in the field -- it's all in his book! Meet Hal Ackerman, up close and personal, just as hundreds of his students have known him through the years. Hal Ackerman offers a treasure trove of information on the writing of quality, saleable screenplays by teaching the art of story structure, substance and style. Over the last quarter century, dozens of screenplays written in his classes have been sold and several have become films, including ones starring Tom Hanks (directed by Steven Spielberg), Gwyneth Paltrow, Christian Bale, Hilary Swank and Diane Lane. They have won accolades in many prestigious contests and have been the gateway scripts to writing jobs in feature films and TV including HBO, Showtime, TNT, OWN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Disney, and more. With this book every professional writer gets a lifetime collaborator and every aspiring writer has a teacher in residence on his or her shelf. *Newly Revised and Updated edition featuring Pose, Moonlight, La La Land, Juno, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, among others. *Top-selling screenwriting book for almost 20 years -- 20th Anniversary Edition

In-depth tome exploring long lost horror films like DRACULA'S DEATH (1920) and LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT (1928), plus unproduced scripts like WOLF MAN VS. DRACULA (1944) and BLACK LAGOON (1952).

A collection of the scripts of episodes 1-12 of the television series Normal people, accompanied by behind-the-scenes photos and an introduction by director Lenny Abrahamson.

Ever find yourself feeling stuck in your screenwriting -- where you know something's wrong but can't quite put your finger on what it is? Or maybe you've just run out of inspiration?This paperback toolbox will fire up your momentum and get you unstuck instantly by fueling your creativity like a true storytelling genius.Creativity is not a linear process. Ideas can come at any time from anywhere. This workbook is designed to help you capture those inklings and passing thoughts and organize your wildest creativity into manageable pieces. With 30+ tools presenting evocative questions and lots of mastery tips throughout, you will be guided to uncover weak areas of your story and be inspired to creative brilliance as you develop and polish your script. Your development process will be accelerated with these tools that offer essential shortcuts to the heart of what matters for writing a compelling, marketable Hollywood screenplay.Some of the Screenwriting Tools included in this workbook are: Main Character Objective StatsMain Character Position in Life Statement3-D Character MapEmpathy TrackerProtagonist Dialogue ProfileLove Interest Total ProfileGeneral Dialogue Analysis ToolCharacter Authentication ToolRelationship MapFeelings Progression SnapshotPlot Point BrainstormSequencesStory Setup and Payoff CheckupEmotional Flame-ThrowerConflict EscalatorDoubling the Jeopardy ToolWriting StylizerLocation Sensation Tool... and many moreBuy one copy as a reference book or multiple copies to manage each script you're working on to help you capture, develop, and apply your great ideas over time. This workshop-in-a-book will help you leverage your priceless resources of time, money, and creativity.You can do a personal workshop on your script by going through the book from start to finish, use it to simply capture and record your ideas as a permanent record for each script, or pick and choose the tools you need to fix the troublesome problems in your script. However you use it, this book will be a valuable asset as a screenwriting coach in a book or development partner!You will find endless ways to use this workshop-in-a-book to help you accelerate your screenwritng process and tap into your unique voice.Before you send your script out to Hollywood or even a to professional script analyst, see how your script fares as you use this workshop-in-a-book to accomplish in each new draft what it usually takes at least 2 or 3 drafts to do well.However you use it, you will most assuredly improve your screenwriting skills, expand your vision, and enhance your fun in the process of writing your screenplay.

"If your journey is anything like ours, at some point you'll hit a wall. Festivals will reject your screenplay. Agencies will pass on representing you. Executives are going to tell you no. Then maybe one day, someone will say yes to your script." -Screenwriters Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, "A Quiet Place"(from the forward to "Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles")Every screenwriter faces fear and failure. The legendary screenwriter William Goldman once said he was "programed to fail." Yet he went on to have a long career that included winning two Oscar Awards. Susannah Grant put a positive spin on constant failure saying "that free-falling feeling you get right on the knife edge of total disaster may in fact be an essential ingredient to doing anything worthwhile." Arguably the worst failure for the new screenwriting is either not finishing a script -or not even starting the writing process. You'll find throughout this book that talent and hard work are essential to succeed at any level. You can't teach that. But distilled from over 3,000 posts from Emmy-winner Scott W. Smith's nationally recognized blog Screenwriting from Iowa . . .. and Other Unlikely Places, these 10 chapters will hopefully guide and inspire you to improve your writing and output. Sprinkled throughout these pages are quotes curated from an eclectic and diverse mix of many top screenwriters and filmmakers throughout the history of film and television.CONFLICT - Why is this a key foundational concept in all storytelling? It's one thing that movies, plays, television and streaming shows, documentaries, and dramatic podcasts all have in common.CONCEPT - Screenwriter Terry Rossio ("Shrek") believes new writers make one common mistake at the start.CHARACTERS - Why does David Mamet think Wile E. Coyote can be a good role model for your characters?CATALYST - How did screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini grab audience's attention early in their movie "Winter's Bone?" No matter what genre you're writing (drama, comedy, horror, action, etc.) something disruptive must happen in the first act.CONSTRUCTION - Why Rian Johnson ("Knives Out") says structure seems antithetical to the free-wheeling creative process but is actually essential to understand.CLIMAXES/ CONCLUSIONS - What does "Toy Story 3" screenwriter Michael Arndt think makes the difference between a good, a bad, and an "insanely great" ending? CATHARSIS - Francis Marion, the first screenwriter to win two Academy Awards (and she wrote one of the first books on screenwriting back in 1937) understood that the goal of writing for film is to make a spectator feel. CONTROLLING IDEA - Perhaps no concept is more divisive that the idea of a theme. Find out how screenwriters Ryan Coogler, Rod Serling, Kelly Marcel, Francis Ford Coppola, and Wes Anderson differ on handling theme. CHANGE - Why is asking the question "What's changed?" so critical to every scene you write?CAREERS AND COWS - Aaron Sorkin, Diablo Cody, James Cameron, Callie Khouri, Barry Jenkins, LuLu Wang, and Alejandro G. Iñárritu all had day jobs (some "survival jobs") before they found filmmaking success. Where one artist found inspiration in an unusual place. And what's the one thing you can do to help get Shonda Rhimes to ask what your spec script is about?

Time to cut through the crap with this entertainingly useful generation-defining screenwriting guide on modern structure. Learn some of the best-kept secrets of how to develop a script. Improve your storytelling, structure, character and screenwriting skills. Build confidence in creating better screenplays. Weave new ideas into powerful scripts. Deliver fresh content, gain a plethora of knowledge, and complete a more polished final draft. Hollywood Film Professor Bradley demonstrates authenticity to help writers become better storytellers so they can truly love what they do. You'll want to add this book to your collection. Whether business or pleasure (or both) he helps readers successfully express themselves to be - or to train to be - amazing screenwriters. Get ready for some great ideas to organize, develop, and rewrite your next screenplay! This is a must-read book.

The Golden Theme is the study of writing's essential commonality-the question of what makes writing and storytelling vital to human nature-by award-winning writer/director/producer Brian McDonald.

Part II: Genre, Pattern & The Concept of Total Meaning completes the Unified Theory of Narrative by going far beneath cinematic storytelling's surface to reveal its hidden structures of meaning. No previous book has explored the thematic dimension of screencraft in such depth or detail; using an interdisciplinary approach to explain the psychological, sociological, and cultural constructs which have shaped the feature film into the complex form of discourse we know today.In Part II you will find: - The properties of myth behind all storytelling- The purpose and origin of cinematic genres- The phenomenon of plot patterns and its connection to cultural belief- The explicit lessons found in protagonist psychology- The ideological nature of dramatic conflict- And most importantly, the connection between these elements and our most basic psychological and sociological needs.Part II: Genre, Pattern & The Concept of Total Meaning is about far more than screencraft. It is about the intimate relationship between storytelling and humanity itself. Since its beginnings, humanity has used story to make sense of its world, express its beliefs, and give life a sense of order and meaning. By revealing the cinematic story's ideological structures, and ultimately unifying them with the physical elements presented in Part I, Genre, Pattern & The Concept of Total Meaning shows how modern cinematic storytelling continues this tradition; resulting in an endless multitude of narratives, each doing their part to serve human society with lessons, arguments, and statements of belief.

Screenwriting and The Unified Theory of Narrative, Part I provides an advanced investigation of narrative structure for readers who wish to understand cinematic storytelling not in terms of its bits and pieces, but as a comprehensive whole. A great story is not a collection of parts, but a process by which many elements interact to create a single meaningful experience. By seeking the principles of these interactions, this book unites the formerly separate structures of plot, character, and theme to reveal for the first time the single overarching structure by which every successful traditionally-told Hollywood or American Independent film abides, regardless of genre, premise, style, or tone.The unified narrative structure is not a formula. It simply reveals the natural method by which great cinematic stories always have and always will unite their many elements into a cohesive line of action that communicates as well as entertains. Whether it be celebratory story like Star Wars, a cautionary tale like Raging Bull, a tragic narrative like Chinatown, or a cynical film like The Godfather, the interactions between plot, character, and theme remain exactly the same. With its approach, The Unified Narrative Structure comes as close as currently possible to a truly universal model of cinematic storytelling; one that takes into account all three dimensions of narrative and stands applicable to virtually any traditional feature-length film.

Tough Love Screenwriting is NOT another dreaded "how to write" book. It's also not the extremely popular Save The Cat. Or How To Write a Screenplay in Twelve Seconds. Or Ten Easy Steps to Becoming a Hollywood Script Zen Master. Or any other mass-marketed screenwriting hustle based on shortcuts, gimmicks, getting rich quick, smarmy "plug in your story" paradigms or the "what Hollywood wants" approach. So exactly what is Tough Love? A brass-knuckles, boots on the ground guide to building a paid, professional screenwriting career -- written by a veteran who's made a good living doing it for over two decades. There's a critical mass of street knowledge essential to any screenwriter's survival, and that's in addition to the ball-shattering task of writing well -- yet precious few sources outside the Business seem interested in sharing the 411 or giving the fresh meat a fair warning heads-up. This books seeks to remedy that. And unlike 99% of the cottage industry books, classes and webinars out there -- 99% created by people who haven't made a dime in the real-life Film Industry -- these pages come from the direct, firsthand experience of a produced professional who's sold scripts, had a hit movie, been hired on numerous writing assignments, dealt with sadistic studio deadlines and handled crazy producers, directors and actors at their most extreme. Massive Bonus -- it also includes THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WRITERS GUILD CREDIT ARBITRATION by anyone, anywhere -- written by a WGA Screen Credits Committee member with vast personal experience on all sides of the Arbitration aisle. Ultimately, Tough Love Screenwriting is aimed at the dedicated writer, the pragmatic dreamer who has pledged themselves to their craft, regardless of results, come Hell or high water, win lose or draw. The straight-shooting individual who understands the odds of becoming a successful screen or television writer are long, but certainly not impossible; and that superb storytelling and stellar writing are your best tools when scaling Hollywood's unforgiving granite walls. Bottom line, there is nothing else like Tough Love out there. It's a wicked fun read guaranteed to get you laughing in some pretty twisted ways. But beware -- this book is not gluten-free. It doesn't nurture your heart chakra and not everybody gets a trophy. Tough Love prides itself on presenting the brutal truth without pulling punches, whether you dig it or not. You may not like some of what this book has to say -- which is proof-positive that it's working. Tough Love Screenwriting is essentially the book I wish someone had given me when I first came to Hollywood. It's as much combat field manual as practical navigational guide and memoir. One shrewd dose would have saved me years of blind, unsuccessful struggle. Hopefully reading it will keep you from enduring the same.