Wing Tang Wong

Screenwriting With a Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters is for screenwriters who care deeply about what they write; who are aware that movie images matter and can influence audiences; and who want to create meaningful screenplays that make powerful statements while entertaining and winning over audiences. A user-friendly guide to ethical screenwriting, this book makes the case that social responsibility is endemic to public art while it emphatically champions First Amendment rights and condemns censorship.  read more »

author: Anne Hart asin: 0595366333 binding: Paperback list price: $23.95 USD amazon price: $23.95 USD

Learn how to write, finance, produce, distribute, publicize, launch, and market documentaries—videos on DVD or similar formats and/or movie scripts. Use your personal computer and your camcorder linked together for editing. Learn about the best script-formatting software to use. Make time and money budgets. Learn how to get funding by fundraising. Write Audio-Visual scripts and turn them into reality-based documentaries for information, travel, or education. Use the Internet’s Web to syndicate and disseminate your content in text, audio, or video formats.  read more »

author: Skip Press asin: 0761514848 binding: Paperback list price: $23.00 USD amazon price: $23.00

In Hollywood, it's not just what you know, it's who you know that counts! With Writer's Guide to Hollywood Producers, Directors, and Screenwriter's Agents you have the friend you need to succeed in this very competitive industry. In this insider's guide, Hollywood screenwriter Skip Press tells you who's who, what they're looking for, and, most important, how to reach them—by mail, phone, fax, even e-mail. Also included:• Essential information on submission protocols and preferences for hundreds of agencies and production companies  read more »

author: Katherine Herbert asin: 1581150253 binding: Paperback list price: $12.95 USD amazon price: $12.95 USD

This upbeat resource book is full of encouraging advice to budding screenwriters on just how to prepare, submit, and sell their movie scripts. From structuring the plot and formatting the script to finding an agent and negotiating the best deal, this insider's information covers all the bases. Tips are offered for developing characters and storylines; using scriptwriting computer programs; sending letters to prospective agents; working with directors; getting along in the business; tapping into Web sites and workshops; and other sources of support for writers.

author: Timothy Corrigan asin: 0321096657 binding: Paperback list price: $41.60 USD amazon price: $41.60

This best-selling text is a succinct guide to thinking critically and writing precisely about film. With numerous student and professional examples along the way, this engaging and practical guide progresses from taking notes and writing first drafts to creating polished essays and comprehensive research projects.  read more »

author: Kenneth Atchity Chi-Li Wong asin: 0805042830 binding: Paperback list price: $16.00 USD amazon price: $16.00

A fully revised guide to turning your movie idea into a treatment that can persuade even the most jaded movie producers  read more »

author: Rima Greer asin: 1884956696 binding: Paperback list price: $14.95 USD amazon price: $11.21 USD

In this book you'll find everything you always wanted to know about the real, honest-to-not-so-goodness day-to-day inner workings of Hollywood. Not the glamorous Oscar-winning-Spielberg-red-carpet Hollywood. The daily grind of working Hollywood. For the very first time, a Hollywood film agent has opened up her phone sheet and crackberry to show us how agents, writers, and directors function in a world of producers, development executives, and studio executives. They only want to make a living, and sometimes get a movie made. Sometimes even a good movie.  read more »

author: Paul Brewer asin: 0812626613 binding: Hardcover list price: $16.95 USD amazon price: $11.53 USD

Children love to be funny and to swap cool jokes. All of the classic joke formats — jump jokes, knock-knocks, riddles, visual puns, and many more — are included and grouped by themes that reflect childrens's interests and lives including technology, monsters, aliens, families, school, and silly book, movie, and song titles. Each chapter ends with a “half-joke,” so that readers can test their growing skills by making up a punch line. Full-page drawings by Paul Brewer accompany each section, and spot art throughout the book punctuates the jokes with visual humor.  read more »