Research Catalog

Title

The complete book of scriptwriting / J. Michael Straczynski.

Author

Straczynski, J. Michael, 1954-

Publication

Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, [1996], ©1996.

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Holdings

Details

Found In

p1pc Makino, Mamoru, 1930- Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film (NNC)7755896

Description

424 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Discusses all aspects of the scriptwriting business, including how to strengthen your writing technique, script format, finding a reliable agent, and much more.

Subject

• Playwriting
• Television authorship
• Motion picture authorship
• Radio authorship
• Kreatives Schreiben
• Fernsehserie

Note

• Includes index.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Makino Mamoru Collection on the History of East Asian Film.

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Television -- A brief history of television -- The writer, the language, the formats -- The craft of telescripting -- Marketing the television script -- A look at the future -- Motion pictures -- A brief history of motion pictures -- The benefits and drawbacks of screenwriting -- The art of the screenplay -- The craft of screenwriting -- The screenplay -- Marketing the screenplay -- Animation -- Past, present and future -- The art and craft of the animation script -- Marketing the animated script -- Radio -- Radiodrama scripting: past, present and future -- The art and craft of radiodrama scripting -- Marketing the radiodrama script -- The stage play -- Writing for the stage: past, present and future -- The art and craft of the stage play -- Marketing the stage play -- The business of scriptwriting -- Warning signs -- The Writers Guild of America -- The art of getting and keeping an agent.

ISBN

• 0898795125 (alk. paper)
• 9780898795127 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96030630

OCLC

• ocm35159203
• 35159203
• SCSB-5677268

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries