 | Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
Buy new: £12.97 / Used from: £11.01 The best screenwriting theory book.
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 | The Secrets of Action Screenwriting by William C. Martell
Buy used from: £97.08 Helpful nuts-and-bolts advice from a working writer.
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 | Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman
Buy new: £7.09 / Used from: £2.53 Classic insider's guide to screenwriting in Hollywood.
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 | Which Lie Did I Tell? by William Goldman
Buy used from: £3.50 And its sequel.
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 | Making Movies by Sidney Lumet
Buy used from: £8.98 The other side of filmmaking. Includes a director's view of screenwriting
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 | Rebel without a Crew: How a 23 Year-old Film-maker with 7, 000 Dollars Became a Hollywood Player by Robert Rodriguez
Buy used from: £9.38 Inspirational, even if it's more about directing than writing.
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 | "Roadracers": The Making of a Degenerate Hot Rod Flick by Robert Rodriguez
Buy used from: £61.45 And its sequel.
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 | What a Producer Does: Art of Moviemaking (Not the Business) by Buck Houghton
Buy new: £6.83 / Used from: £1.04 Again the other side of filmmaking - fascinating stuff.
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 | Chinatown: Screenplay (Faber Reel Classics) by Robert Towne
Buy new: £3.47 / Used from: £0.98 How a screenplay should be written - learn from the best.
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 | The Usual Suspects: Screenplay (Faber Reel Classics) by Christopher McQuarrie
Buy used from: £0.01 Alternatively
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 | Body Heat: The Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan
Or this.
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 | Empire Strikes Back: Illustrated Script (Illustrated Filmscript) by Leigh Brackett
Buy used from: £2.20 Or this.
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 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-drugs-and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Changed Hollywood by Peter Biskind
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £0.50 Essential 70s Hollywood history.
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 | Movies and Money by David Puttnam
Buy used from: £1.09 And a quick guide to Hollywood vs Europe.
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 | You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again by Julia Phillips
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £2.45 An insight into how things used to (and may still) work.
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