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 Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers
The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script
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
Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter's Guide to Every Story Ever Told
Into the Woods: A Five Act Journey Into Story
Save the Cat! Strikes Back: More Trouble for Screenwriters to Get Into… and Out Of
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)
Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!
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 — 66 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 CabotHis Brother's Secret by Debra SalonenAn Accidental Affair by Eric Jerome DickeyIf the Boot Fits by Rebekah WeatherspoonTrue Grandeur by Cal R. Barnes
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
74 books — 5 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
23 books — 11 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

Delacroix countered the fear of knowledge succinctly: ‘First learn to be a craftsman; it won’t keep you from being a genius.
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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