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 Paperback – November 29, 2005
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
Making a Good Script Great
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
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
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen
The Screenwriter's Workbook: Exercises and Step-by-Step Instruction for Creating a Successful Screenplay (A Dell Trade Paperback)
The Secrets of Filming Swallows & Amazons by Sophie NevilleThe Warner Loughlin Technique by Warner LoughlinFilm Directing Shot by Shot by Steven D. KatzWithout Empathy by Mk RaghavendraActor for Life by Connie de Veer
Acting and Cinema
75 books — 67 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

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
75 books — 6 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
24 books — 12 voters

This book won’t make you a better writer. No one book will. But as part of something bigger—the steady, solid, consistent thrum of practice; the belief that study and application are important; and perhaps above all the understanding that if a writer’s job is to explore truth, then the least they can do is first seek it out in their craft.
John Yorke, Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story

Syd Field
La cosa più difficile quando si scrive è sapere che cosa scrivere
Syd Field

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