Screenwriting


Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
The Art of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives
Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
Making a Good Script Great
Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told
Save the Cat! Strikes Back: More Trouble for Screenwriters to Get Into… and Out Of
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Screenwriter's Workbook: Exercises and Step-by-Step Instruction for Creating a Successful Screenplay (A Dell Trade Paperback)
Screenplay by Syd FieldThe Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph CampbellSave the Cat! by Blake SnyderAdventures in the Screen Trade by William GoldmanThe Art of Dramatic Writing by Lajos Egri
Screenwriting
76 books — 7 voters
Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald MaassScreenplay Competitions by Ann Marie  WilliamsStory Like a Journalist by Amber RoyerThe Fire in Fiction by Donald MaassWriting the Breakout Novel Workbook by Donald Maass
WHY Writers Group Books on Writing
44 books — 3 voters

3D Movie Making by Bernard MendiburuThink in 3D by Clyde DeSouzaTell to Win by Peter GuberStereoscopic Cinema and the Origins of 3-D Film, 1838-1952 by Ray Zone3-D Filmmakers by Ray Zone
Stereoscopic 3D filmmaking
8 books — 1 voter
She Went All the Way by Meg CabotIf the Boot Fits by Rebekah WeatherspoonTrue Grandeur by Cal R. BarnesAn Accidental Affair by Eric Jerome DickeyHis Brother's Secret by Debra Salonen
Screenwriters in Love
24 books — 6 voters

The Art and Craft of Screenwriting by Shelly FromeThe Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie NevilleThe Warner Loughlin Technique by Warner LoughlinFilm Directing Shot by Shot by Steven D. KatzActor for Life by Connie de Veer
Acting and Cinema
76 books — 81 voters
Directing Actors by Judith WestonIn the Blink of an Eye by Walter MurchOn Directing Film by David MametProducing and Directing the Short Film and Video by Peter W. ReaMaking Movies by Sidney Lumet
To Be A Filmmaker
32 books — 13 voters

The business of making moving pictures is the art of moving audiences.
Lawrence J. Kurnarsky, The Story of the Story: How to Kidnap Your Audience

D.B. Thakuri
Every compelling story provides a new status quo.
DB Thakuri, HEADWATERS OF SCREENWRITING: The Art of Crafting Original Screenplays

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