Six Screenplays

Author : Robert Riskin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520205251

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Six Screenplays by Robert Riskin Pdf

Screenwriter Robert Riskin (1897-1955) was a towering figure even among the giants of Hollywood's Golden Age. Known for his unique blend of humor and romance, wisecracking and idealism, Riskin teamed with director Frank Capra to produce some of his most memorable films. Pat McGilligan has collected six of the best Riskin scripts: Platinum Blonde (1931), American Madness (1932), It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), and Meet John Doe (1941). All of them were directed by Capra, and although Capra's work has been amply chronicled and celebrated, Riskin's share in the collaboration has been overlooked since his death. McGilligan provides the "backstory" for the forgotten half of the team, indispensable counterpoint to the director's self-mythologizing autobiography--and incidentally the missing link in any study of Capra's career. Riskin's own career, although interrupted by patriotic duty and cut short by personal tragedy, produced as consistent, entertaining, thoughtful, and enduring a body of work as any Hollywood writer's. Those who know and love these vintage films will treasure these scripts. McGilligan's introduction offers new information and insights for fans, scholars, and general readers.

Author : Robert Riskin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Motion picture plays
ISBN : OCLC:224219202

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Six Screenplays by Robert Riskin Pdf

Author : Tong Dai
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Chinese characters
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Six Scripts by Tong Dai Pdf

Author : Tong Dai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Chinese language
ISBN : HARVARD:HW262P

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The Six Scripts by Tong Dai Pdf

Author : Tong Dai
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Chinese characters
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Six Scripts by Tong Dai Pdf

Author : Tai Tung
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107605152

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The Six Scripts Or the Principles of Chinese Writing by Tai Tung by Tai Tung Pdf

An English translation by L. C. Hopkins of Tai T'ung's Liu Shu Ku, first published in 1881.

Author : Gordon Bowker
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810822830

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Apparently Incongruous Parts by Gordon Bowker Pdf

A wide-ranging collection of essays and memoirs about Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957), one of the century's great novelists.

Author : Karl Iglesias
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781440527890

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The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters by Karl Iglesias Pdf

Takes a look into the lives and workspaces of screenwriters, who share their best practices in their own writing careers.

Author : Ashley Scott Meyers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Motion picture authorship
ISBN : 1601451482

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Selling Your Screenplay by Ashley Scott Meyers Pdf

Selling Your Screenplay is a step-by-step guide to getting your screenplay sold and produced. Learn how to get your script into the hands of the producers and directors who can turn your story into a movie.

Author : Andrew Horton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520924177

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Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay, Updated and Expanded edition by Andrew Horton Pdf

"We need good screenwriters who understand character." Everywhere Andrew Horton traveled in researching this book—from Hollywood to Hungary—he heard the same refrain. Yet most of the standard how-to books on screenwriting follow the film industry's earlier lead in focusing almost exclusively on plot and formulaic structures. With this book, Horton, a film scholar and successful screenwriter, provides the definitive work on the character-based screenplay. Exceptionally wide-ranging—covering American, international, mainstream, and "off-Hollywood" films, as well as television—the book offers creative strategies and essential practical information. Horton begins by placing screenwriting in the context of the storytelling tradition, arguing through literary and cultural analysis that all great stories revolve around a strong central character. He then suggests specific techniques and concepts to help any writer—whether new or experienced—build more vivid characters and screenplays. Centering his discussion around four film examples—including Thelma & Louise and The Silence of the Lambs—and the television series, Northern Exposure, he takes the reader step-by-step through the screenwriting process, starting with the development of multi-dimensional characters and continuing through to rewrite. Finally, he includes a wealth of information about contests, fellowships, and film festivals. Espousing a new, character-based approach to screenwriting, this engaging, insightful work will prove an essential guide to all of those involved in the writing and development of film scripts.

Author : Joseph P. Willis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000011975

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Threatened Masculinity from British Fiction to Cold War German Cinema by Joseph P. Willis Pdf

The impact of the Cold War on German male identities can be seen in the nation’s cinematic search for a masculine paradigm that rejected the fate-centered value system of its National- Socialist past while also recognizing that German males once again had become victims of fate and fatalism, but now within the value system of the Soviet and American hegemonies that determined the fate of Cold War Germany and Central Europe. This monograph is the first to demonstrate that this Cold War cinematic search sought out a meaningful masculine paradigm through film adaptations of late-Victorian and Edwardian male writers who likewise sought a means of self-determination within a hegemonic structure that often left few opportunities for personal agency. In contrast to the scholarly practice of exploring categories of modern masculinity such as Victorian imperialist manliness or German Cold-War male identity as distinct from each other, this monograph offers an important, comparative corrective that brings forward an extremely influential century-long trajectory of threatened masculinity. For German Cold-War masculinity, lessons were to be learned from history—namely, from late-Victorian and Edwardian models of manliness. Cold War Germans, like the Victorians before them, had to confront the unknowns of a new world without fear or hesitation. In a Cold-War mentality where nuclear technology and geographic distance had trumped face-to-face confrontation between East and West, Cold-War German masculinity sought alternatives to the insanity of mutual nuclear destruction by choosing not just to confront threats, but to resolve threats directly through personal agency and self-determination.

Author : Derek Blount
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0996700633

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Tango Six: A Screenplay by Derek Blount Pdf

An advancing war. An impossible rescue mission. One chance to save the world. The year is 1940. Hitler's forces have pressed into Belgium with Britain as the ultimate target. America has not yet officially entered the struggle. But when the enigmatic Nazi leader known as The Baron captures an American scientist - a man with a secret to a weapon so powerful it would ensure global victory for the Nazis - a hasty rescue mission is launched through a clandestine team-up of six elite British and American special forces soldiers. Code name: Tango Six. Holding critical information thanks to his recent escape from The Baron's stronghold of Dominus Castle, young British Air Force pilot Nigel Pennington is reluctantly pressed into joining the eclectic band of soldiers. When everything that could go wrong does, can Nigel keep the Americans and Brits from killing each other long enough to save the world? Brimming with unforgettable characters and imbued with the same brand of adventurous fun as the Indiana Jones film series, Tango Six will rivet you with suspense, laughter and fist-pumping action. BUY YOUR COPY TODAY!

Author : Jim Cheng,James Wicks,Sachie Noguchi
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231540339

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An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies by Jim Cheng,James Wicks,Sachie Noguchi Pdf

Compiled by two skilled librarians and a Taiwanese film and culture specialist, this volume is the first multilingual and most comprehensive bibliography of Taiwanese film scholarship, designed to satisfy the broad interests of the modern researcher. The second book in a remarkable three-volume research project, An Annotated Bibliography for Taiwan Film Studies catalogues the published and unpublished monographs, theses, manuscripts, and conference proceedings of Taiwanese film scholars from the 1950s to 2013. Paired with An Annotated Bibliography for Chinese Film Studies (2004), which accounts for texts dating back to the 1920s, this series brings together like no other reference the disparate voices of Chinese film scholarship, charting its unique intellectual arc. Organized intuitively, the volume begins with reference materials (bibliographies, cinematographies, directories, indexes, dictionaries, and handbooks) and then moves through film history (the colonial period, Taiwan dialect film, new Taiwan cinema, the 2/28 incident); film genres (animated, anticommunist, documentary, ethnographic, martial arts, teen); film reviews; film theory and technique; interdisciplinary studies (Taiwan and mainland China, Taiwan and Japan, film and aboriginal peoples, film and literature, film and nationality); biographical materials; film stories, screenplays, and scripts; film technology; and miscellaneous aspects of Taiwanese film scholarship (artifacts, acts of censorship, copyright law, distribution channels, film festivals, and industry practice). Works written in multiple languages include transliteration/romanized and original script entries, which follow universal AACR-2 and American cataloguing standards, and professional notations by the editors to aid in the use of sources.

Author : Ivy Press
Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1932899944

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Heritage Odyssey Music and Hollywood Memorabilia Auction Catalog #616 by Ivy Press Pdf

Author : Susan Kouguell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781429906241

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The Savvy Screenwriter by Susan Kouguell Pdf

The Savvy Screenwriter demystifies the film industry and reveals what aspiring screenwriters really want and need to know. From finding and working with agents, to insights about story analysts and movie executives, to understanding option agreements, to providing samples for queries, synopses, treatments, loglines, and outlines, to pitching, Susan Kouguell knows what works and what doesn't, and gives practical advice on getting your screenplay sold.