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The Name Above The Title 7 reviews Frank Capra
Da Capo Press, 1997
Straight from the Heart
+ One of the best entertainment book + The Definitive Autobiographical Experience!! + An Astounding Talent and an Astounding Life + Five Inspiring Words: It's a Frank Capra Book.
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Adventures in the Screen Trade 33 reviews William Goldman
Grand Central Publishing, 1989
A "Must Read" for Every Screenwriter
+ Removing Some of Hollywood's Glitter + Thoroughly Enjoyable + great book + A great read on a fascinating subject by a fine writer
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Ultra-Solutions: How to Fail Most Successfully 4 reviews Paul Watzlawick
W. W. Norton & Company, 1988
TRENCHANT & FUNNY
+ A fun read. + Humorous antipatterns
I AM NOT SURPRISED TO SEE THAT THE CANADIAN CUSTOMER REVIEW WAS ONE OF IRRITATION; WHILE THE GERMAN CUSTOMER REVIEW WAS FULL OF PRAISE. THIS IS NOT A BOOK FOR YOU, IF YOU ARE A N.AMERICAN COLLEGE GRAD WHO BLENDS IN PASSIONATE MEDIA-SPUN OPINIONS WITH LARGE DOLLOPS OF PERSONAL IGNORANCE; AND WHOSE ...
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The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter 1 review William Froug
Silman-James Press, 1991
Excellent resource for wannabe screenwriters
Bill Froug's book was first published in the seventies as a reaction against the autuer theory. What Froug did was interview some of the most respected screenwriters in the business along with a few new risers and ask them about screenwriting. What emerges from the interviews is the that each ...
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The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History 139 reviews Howard Bloom
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997
Unique Analysis
+ Life Changing + Best book ever written...it will change your life!
This book provides a fascinating perspective on history and current society.
If you are looking for a strictly academic work, this is probably not for you. Instead, this book looks at parallels between trends and processes in various parts of the world, and in various parts of history. If you ...
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The Citizen Kane Book: Raising Kane and The Shooting Script Pauline Kael, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1971
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Hitchcock (Revised Edition) 28 reviews Helen G. Scott, Francois Truffaut
Simon & Schuster, 1985
A really great conversation about film.
+ Wow. + A classic reference for Hitchcock fans + One of three best Hitchcock books + A terrific book about a film master of suspense
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The Death of Tragedy 3 reviews George Steiner
Hill & Wang, 1968
Fate of the tragical
+ Dazzling essay ! + What is begotten , born and dies
If you have ever sat down with quill pen to attempt a blank verse tragedy, only to tear up your notes, this is the book for you. Tragedy as a genre remains the rara avis in the history of art, and its brief appearances seem to accompany periods of history going into high gear. Its reappearance in ...
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Tragedy and Comedy (A Da Capo paperback) 1 review Walter Kerr
Da Capo Pr, 1985
Comedy From Tragedy
Walter Kerr offers this exhaustive study into the nature of comedy for us to explore. He started out, by his own admission, trying to write a book about the nature of comedy only and not involving tragedy. As he went along, he realized that he could not do so for the very root of comedy is ...
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The Theater Essays Of Arthur Miller 2 reviews Arthur Miller, Robert A. Martin, ...
Da Capo Press, 1996
Classic essays on the nature of drama
+ Wonderful compilation of Miller's thoughts
These collected essays, first published in such periodicals as The New York Times, The New York Herald Tribune, or Atlantic Monthly, trace the origins of modern drama in Greek tragedy and comedy. At least four of them should be required reading in any introductory course in British and American ...
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Dramatic construction; an outline of basic principles,: Followed by technical analyses of significant plays ... 2 reviews Edward Mabley
Chilton Book Co, 1972
give me review
+ give me review
dear sir please send to me review to Dramatic Construction; An Outline of Basic Principles, Followed by Technical Analyses of Significant Plays by Sophocles ... and Others book by Edward Howe, Mabley im waiting you Ali Bintameem
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Conversations with Wilder 27 reviews Cameron Crowe
Knopf, 2001
Part of the bible
+ Fun Book + Outstanding + great for any future film-maker + Hilarious, touching, thoughtful, well-written
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales 24 reviews Bruno Bettelheim
Vintage, 1989
A classic psychoanalytical view of fairy tales
+ Heroism and the Existential Predicament of life + For fairy tale fans and Freud students + Insights from a new perspective
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Poetics (Penguin Classics) 10 reviews Aristotle
Penguin Classics, 1997
Introduction is about as long as the treatise!
+ Tragedy Teaches Us Something About Life + A very interesting and usually useful text as well as a wonderful and wonderfully annotated translation + Aristotle Clearly Explained + Any student of literature should read this.
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The Name Above The Title 7 reviews Frank Capra
Da Capo Press, 1997
Straight from the Heart
+ One of the best entertainment book + The Definitive Autobiographical Experience!! + An Astounding Talent and an Astounding Life + Five Inspiring Words: It's a Frank Capra Book.
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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales 24 reviews Bruno Bettelheim
Vintage, 1989
A classic psychoanalytical view of fairy tales
+ Heroism and the Existential Predicament of life + For fairy tale fans and Freud students + Insights from a new perspective
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Adventures in the Screen Trade 33 reviews William Goldman
Grand Central Publishing, 1989
A "Must Read" for Every Screenwriter
+ Removing Some of Hollywood's Glitter + Thoroughly Enjoyable + great book + A great read on a fascinating subject by a fine writer
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Conversations with Wilder 27 reviews Cameron Crowe
Knopf, 2001
Part of the bible
+ Fun Book + Outstanding + great for any future film-maker + Hilarious, touching, thoughtful, well-written
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Poetics (Penguin Classics) 10 reviews Aristotle
Penguin Classics, 1997
Introduction is about as long as the treatise!
+ Tragedy Teaches Us Something About Life + A very interesting and usually useful text as well as a wonderful and wonderfully annotated translation + Aristotle Clearly Explained + Any student of literature should read this.
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The Citizen Kane Book: Raising Kane and The Shooting Script Pauline Kael, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 1971
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