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Ratings Author/Editor   Author/Editor     Title
Paul A.BaumgartenDonald C.Farber & Mark Fleischer Producing, Financing & Distributing Film: A Comprehensive Legal & Business Guide
JohnBaxter   Science Fiction in the Cinema
Hal ZinaBennettMichaelLarsen How to Write with a Collaborator
Robert A.Berman   Fade In
Irwin R.Blacker  TheElements of ScreenWriting
JamesBonnet   Stealing Fire from the Gods
JonBoorstin   Making Movies Work
Rita MaeBrown   Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual
JanetBurroway   Writing Fiction
JuliaCameronMarkBryanTheArtist's Way
JosephCampbell  TheHero with a Thousand Faces
JosephCampbell   Transformations of Myth through Time
VerneCarlsonSylvia E.Carlson Professional Lighting HandBook
Jeff ScottCook  TheElements of SpeechWriting & Public Speaking
Sandra R.Curtis   Zorro UnMasked: The Official History
David C.Denison   As Seen on TV: An Inside Look at the Television Industry
John GregoryDunne   Monster: Living Off the Big Screen
ScottEdelstein  TheInDispensable Writer's Guide
LajosEgri  TheArt of Dramatic Writing
PeterElbow   Writing with Power
David E.Elkins  TheCamera Assistant's Manual
SydField   ScreenPlay: The Foundations of ScreenWriting
SydField   Selling a ScreenPlay: The ScreenWriter's Guide to Hollywood
AprilFitzsimmons   Breaking & Entering: Land Your 1st Job in Film Production
RudolfFlesch   How to Write Plain English
BillyFrolick   What I Really Want to Do Is Direct
NatalieGoldberg   Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
WilliamGoldman   William Goldman: 4 ScreenPlays with Essays
MichaelHauge   Writing ScreenPlays that Sell
Neill D.Hicks   Writing the Action-Adventure Film
LewHunter   ScreenWriting 434
ClaudiaJohnsonMattStevens Script Partners
T.L.Katahn   Reading for a Living: How To Be a Professional Story Analyst for Film & Television
MiltonKatselas   Dreams into Action: Getting What You Want!
Steven D.Katz   Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen
ChristopherKeane   How to Write a Selling ScreenPlay
VikiKing   How to Write a Movie in 21 Days
HowardKoch  ThePanic BroadCast
LaurenceLeamer   As Time Goes By: The Life of Ingrid Bergman
JenniferLerch    500 Ways to Beat the Hollywood Script Reader
EdmondLevy   Making a Winning Short: How to Write, Direct, Edit, & Produce a Short Film
ArtLinson  APound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How To Produce Movies In Hollywood
DougLipman   Improving Your StoryTelling
PaulLucey   Story Sense
EdwardMableyDavidHowardTheTools of ScreenWriting: A Writer's Guide to the Craft & Elements of a ScreenPlay
EricMaisel  ALife in the Arts
ScottMcCloud   Understanding Comics
FrankMcConnell   StoryTelling & MythMaking: Images from Film & Literature
RobertMcKee   Story
Sarah MyersMcGinty   Writing Your College Application Essay
MichaelMedved   Hollywood vs America
Stephen BlakeMettee  ThePortable Writers' Conference
JamesMonaco   How To Read a Film: The Art, Technology, Language, History, & Theory of Film & Media
BillMooneyDavidHoltTheStoryTeller's Guide
LyndaObst   Hello, He Lied
Roberta E.PearsonWilliamUricchiosTheMany Lives of the Batman
Susan K.Perry   Writing in Flow
David MichaelPetrou  TheMaking of Superman the Movie
GailResnickScottTrost All You Need to Know About the Movie & TV Business
TonyReveauxGeneSteinburg How to Do Everything with iMovie2
JeffreyRyder   Clint Eastwood
JoelSaltzman   If You Can Talk, You Can Write
Dewitt H.Scott   Secrets of Successful Writing
LindaSeger  TheArt of Adaptation: Turning Fact & Fiction into Film
LindaSeger   Creating UnForgettable Characters
LindaSegerEdward JayWhetmore From Script to Screen: The Collaborative Art of FilmMaking
LindaSeger   Making a Good Script Great
LindaSeger   Making a Good Writer Great
LindaSeger   When Women Call the Shots
MargaretShertzer  TheElements of Grammar
Thomas G.Smith   Industrial Light & Magic: The Art of Special Effects
Carle B.Spotts   Ideas & Patterns for Writing
JeromeStern   Making Shapely Fiction
J. MichaelStraczynski  TheComplete Book of ScriptWriting
WilliamStrunkE.B.WhiteTheElements of Style
LindaStuart   Getting Your Script Through the Hollywood Maze
BarryTarshis   How to Write without Pain
EricTaub   Gaffers, Grips, & Best Boys
DavidTrottier  TheScreenWriter's Bible
Brooke A.Wharton  TheWriter Got Screwed (but didn't have to)
John MorganWilson   Inside Hollywood: A Writer's Guide to Researching the World of Movies & TV
WillWright   SixGuns & Society: A Structural Study of the Western

other good links

American Zoetrope
Writers' Guild of America
ScriptThing
The Writers' Store
Linda Buzzell
Internet Move Data Base

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