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Screenplay

Screenplay

by Syd Field

1979Motion picture authorshipMotion picture playsTechniqueCreative writingMoving-picture authorship
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What is a screenplay?

What is a screenplay?

About this book

One of the seminal and much respected texts in the field of screenwriting by one of the greats. *Screenplay* has been revised and updated many times and it remains a number one bestseller on Amazon in 2016, years after it was first published. The book contains guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints elements essential to a screenplay and provides a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing a successful script.

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Motion picture authorshipMotion picture playsTechniqueCreative writingMoving-picture authorshipscreenwriting
First published 1979

Author

Syd Field

First published

1979

Pages

246

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

16

Languages

English, Portuguese, Chinese

Publisher

Delacorte Press

ISBN

9788573020441

Where to buy

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