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The Tools Of Screenwriting

David Howard Edward Mabley

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English
St Martin's Press
15 January 1995
A Writer's Guide to the Craft and Elements of a Screenplay
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Imprint:   St Martin's Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 209mm,  Width: 137mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   400g
ISBN:   9780312119089
ISBN 10:   0312119089
Pages:   298
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"David Howard is an active screenwriter, ""script doctor,"" and script consultant, both in Hollywood and in Europe. He is also the founding director of the Graduate Screenwriting Program at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television. In addition to his teaching duties at USC, he frequently lectures and teaches, often in conjunction with Frank Daniel, throughout Europe as well as around the United States. He lives in Santa Monica, California, with his wife, the painter Victoria McClay. Edward Mabley, besides being the author of Dramatic Construction, wrote, among other works, the play Glad Tidings and the text of the grand opera The Plough and the Stars (after the play by Sean O'Casey). He wrote radio and television plays, directed in television, and taught at the New School for Social Research in New York. He died in 1984. Frank Daniel has been head of many of the world's most renowned film schools. He was Dean of FAMU, the Czech film school, during the 1960s ""Prague Spring."" He was the first dean of the Center for Advanced Film Studies at the American Film Institute, then he became co-chairman of Columbia University's Film Division with his former student, Milos Forman. He went on to become the first dean of the newly expanded School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. He was also the first artistic director of the Sundance Institute, and artistic director of the Flemish European Media Institute in Brussels. He is currently a professor in the Graduate Screenwriting Program, at USC and continues with his own extensive screenwriting schedule as well as teaching regularly in Europe."

Reviews for The Tools Of Screenwriting

David Howard calls this book 'a writer's guide.' I think it's a wonderful and indispensable producer's guide to story, storytelling, and screenwriting. --Lawrence Turman, producer of The Graduate, Running Scared, The Flim-Flam Man, and other films What David Howard has done with The Tools of Screenwriting is to reveal for me and for all readers just how stories work; he shows that there are no absolute rules, but there are principles that can help a beginning writer gain understanding of all the elements that go into the creation of a 'good story well told.' --Diane Keaton The Tools of Screenwriting is the best primer on the craft, far better than the usual paint-by-the-numbers sort of books that abound. --Frank Pierson, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Cool Hand Luke, Dog Day Afternoon, Presumed Innocent, and A Star is Born


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