Bibliography | Visual Storytelling Course

Bibliography

BOOKS

1. A Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation – Noah Lukeman
2. Character and Conflict – Mark Axelrod
3. Comedy Writing – Jenny Roche
4. Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made – Alex Epstein
5. The Character Creation Kit – Amanda Patterson
6. Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay – Syd Field
7. How to Make Money Scriptwriting – Julian Friedmann
8. Madame Bovary, C’est Moi– Andre Bernard
9. Pitching Hollywood: How to Sell Your TV Show and Movie Ideas -Jonathan Koch and Robert Kosberg
10. Real Screenwriting: Strategies and Stories from the Trenches– Ronald Suppa
11. Hooked On Writing – Amanda Patterson
12. Screenwriting For Dummies – L Schellhardt
13. Screenwriting From the Soul: Letters to an Aspiring Screenwriter – Richard Krevolin
14. Screenwriting: Step by Step – Wendy J Henson
15. Style: An Anti-Textbook – Richard A Lanham
16. Teach Yourself Screenwriting – Raymond G Frensham
17. The Art of Screenwriting Simplified: The Most Comprehensive Guide for Film and Television – Willie E Mason
18. The Key – James N Frey
19. The Screenwriter’s Bible– Dave Trottier
20. The Screenwriter’s Handbook – Barry Turner
21. The Script – Anthony Ehlers
22. Walking on Eggshells – G E De Villiers
23. What Happens Next?: An Introduction to Screenwriting – Charles Deemer
24. Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life – Natalie Goldberg
25. Writer’s Guide to Hollywood Producers, Directors, and Screenwriters
26. Writers Write – Amanda Patterson
27. Writers Write 2 – by Amanda Patterson
28. Writing the Killer Treatment: Selling Your Story Without a Script – Michael Halperin
29. Writing Screenplays That Sell– Michael Hauge
30. Writing Television Comedy – Jerry Ranow
31. Writing Television Sitcoms – Evan S Smith
32. Writing Treatments That Sell– Kenneth Atchity and Chi-Li Wong
33. You Can Write a Mystery – Gillian Roberts

WEBSITES

1. www.nfvf.org.za – National Film and Video Foundation, SA
2. www.imdb.com – Internet Movie Data Base
3. www.screenscripts.com – Platform for writers to pitch stories and ideas
4. www.finaldraft.com – Industry Standard Screenwriter’s Software
5. www.movievillians.com – fun villians website, with bios
6. www.behindthename.com – the entymology of names 

MAGAZINES / NEWSPAPERS

1. Script – a bi-monthly magazine
2. Hollywood Reporter – an industry newspaper
3. Variety – an industry newspaper

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