Books
Book References
(Books I especially recommend)
- Sherman Alexie, Smoke Signals (Hyperion, 1998)
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia (Newmarket Press, 2000)
- Alan Ball, American Beauty (Newmarket Press, 1999)
- Joseph Campbell, The Hero's Journey (Harper & Row, 1990)
- Tom Chiarella, Writing Dialogue (Story Press, 1998)
- Anne Dean, David Mamet: Language as Dramatic Action (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1990)
- Michael B. Druxman, The Art of Storytelling (The Center Press, 1997)
- Andre Dubus, In the Bedroom (Vintage, 2002)
- John Gregory Dunne, Monster: Living Off the Big Screen (Random House, 1997)
- Lajos Egri, The Art of Dramatic Writing (Simon & Schuster, 1977)
- Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally (Knopf, 1997)
- Rob Festinger and Todd Field, In the Bedroom (Hyperion, 2002)
- Syd Field, Screenplay: the Foundations of Screenwriting (Bantam, 1994)
- William Froug, Screenwriting Tricks of the Trade (Silman-James, 1993)
- William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade (Warner Brothers, 1983)
- Michael Hauge, Writing Screenplays That Sell (McGraw-Hill, 1980)
- Lew Hunter, Screenwriting 434 (A Perigee Book, 1993)
- Christopher Keane, How to Write a Selling Screenplay (Broadway Books, 1998)
- Robert Kosberg, How to Sell Your Idea to Hollywood (HarperPerennial, 1991)
- Susan Kouguell, The Savvy Screenwriter (TL Hoell Books, 2000)
- Jennifer Lerch, 500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader (Fireside, 1999)
- David Mamet, House of Games (Grove Weidenfeld, 1987)
- Elaine May, The Birdcage (Newmarket Press, 1997)
- David Morrell, Lessons from a Lifetime of Writing (Writer's Digest Books, 2001)
- Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love (Hyperion, 1998)
- Linda Palmer, How to Write It, How to Sell It (St. Martin's Griffin, 1998)
- John Roach & Mary Sweeney, The Straight Story (Hyperion, 1999)
- Robin U. Russin and William Missouri Downs, Screenplay: Writing the Picture (Harcourt, 1999)
- Karl Schanzer & Thomas Lee Wright, American Screenwriters (Avon Books, 1993)
- Rick Schmidt, Feature Filmmaking At Used Car Prices (Penguin Books, 1995)
- Sol Stein, Stein on Writing (St. Martin's Press, 1995)
- Tom Stempel, FrameWork: a History of Screenwriting in the American Film (Continuum, 1988)
- Linda Stuart, Getting Your Script Through the Hollywood Maze (Acrobat Books, 1993)
- Thom Taylor, The Big Deal (William Morrow, 1999)
- Kristin Thompson, Storytelling in the New Hollywood: Understanding Classical Narrative Technique (Harvard University Press, 1999)
- Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade (Hyperion, 1996)
- David Trottier, The Screenwriter's Bible (Silman-James Press, 1995)
- Chris Vogel, The Writer's Journey (Michael Wiese, 1992)
- Richard Walter, Screenwriting (A Plume Book, 1988)
- Richard Walter, The Whole Picture (Penguin, 1997)
- Rich Whiteside, The Screenwriting Life: the Dream, the Job, and the Reality (Berkley Boulevard Books, 1998)
- Jurgen Wolff and Kerry Cox, Top Secrets: Screenwriting (Lone Eagle Publishing Co., 1993)
- Justin Wyatt, High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood (Texas Film Studies, 1995)
For a very fine annotated list, see
Recommended Books for Screenwriters by Nadine White.
Also see my own recommendations.
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