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)
The 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 VeerWithout Empathy by Mk Raghavendra
Acting and Cinema
75 books — 62 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
76 books — 7 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
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

Three-dimensional characters…do change; their purchase is deeper. They have both a want and a need, and they are not necessarily the same thing.
John Yorke, Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story

All great artists – in music, drama, literature, in art itself – have an understanding of the rules whether that knowledge is conscious or not.
John Yorke, Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story

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