Cinema & TV and Radio - Television Plays

Me - I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf - also includes A Day Out & Sunset Across the Bay & A Visit from Miss Prothero & Afternoon Off

Alan Bennett

Faber & Faber

Published to coincide with a retrospective of Alan Bennett's television work at the National Film Theatre, this collection is full of the observations of life as it is lived, and includes: "A Day Out"; "Suns...

$12.99

Dennis Potter - The Authorised Biography

Humphrey Carpenter - HARDBACK

Faber & Faber

This authorized biography is based on interviews with associates and on access to personal archives, including many unused television and film scripts It takes us from Potter's childhood in the Forest of ...

$35

Granada's Manchester Plays

Granada

Used Copy

TV Adaptations of Six Plays Recalling the Hornman Period at the Gaiety Theatre Manchester - ex lib

$22.99

Six Granada Plays

Various Authors

Used Copy

Includes The Bush & the Tree by John O'Toole & Promenade by Peter Nichols & The Queen's Corporal by Graeme Kent & No Fixed Abode by Clive Exton & The Myth Makers by William Bast & A Bit of Happiness by Alexa...

$35

The Art of Dramatic Writing - Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives

Lajos Egri

BnPublishing

Amid the hundreds of "how-to" books that have appeared in recent years, there have been very few which attempted to analyze the mysteries of play-construction This book does just that - and its principles a...

$13.99

Making a Good Writer Great - A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters

Linda Seger

Silman-James Press

This new addition to Linda Seger's indispensable collection of books combines advice on how to awaken creativity with a practitical knowledge of screenwriting Itv teaches writers how to be creative withi...

$15.99

A Chelsea Trilogy - Photographer & Explorer & Tycoon - Anglia Plays

Kenneth Jupp

Used Copy

$18.99

Television An International History Second Edition 1998

Anthony Smith - ed

Used Copy

$47.99

The Falklands Play - The Teleplay The Author's inside story of the cancellation of the BBC production

Ian Curteis

Used Copy

$35.95

Brecht On Film and Radio - HARDBACK

Bertolt Brecht trans & ed Marc Silberman

Methuen

"I strongly wish that after their invention of the radio the bourgeoisie would make a further invention that enables us to fix for all time what the radio communicates Later generations would then have the ...

$39.99

Laughing Out Loud - Writing the Comedy-Centered Screenplay

Andrew Horton

University of California

Identifying the essential elements of comedy and classifying comedy as a perspective rather than merely as a genre, this is an invaluable book for those wishing to pursue a career in writing Blending hi...

$22.99

Screenplay - The Foundations of Screenwriting

Syd Field

Walker & Co

A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field's bestselling books to ignite successful careers in film Now the celebrated producer, lecturer, teacher, and bestselling author has updated his classic guide...

$16

Long Voyage Out of War - A Trilogy of Television Plays

Ian Curteis

Used Copy

Includes The Gentle Invasion & Battle at Tematangi & The Last Enemy

$22.99

One Bummer Newsday - BBC Play for Today - 12 hours in the newsroom of a provincial newspaper - broadcast 1978

Andy McSmith

Used Copy

$14.99

Food for Ravens

Trevor Griffiths

Oberon

8 Male 5 Female

Winner of a Royal Television Society Award, this is the text of the television drama broadcast by the BBC starring Brian Cox and Sinead Cusack Food for Ravens is a powerful political drama about one of the ...

$14.99

New Granada Plays

Various Authors

Used Copy

Includes The Protest by Rhys Adrian & The Honeymooners by Philip Callow & Marking Time by Richard Cottrell & A Place of my Own by Patrick Hughes & Soldier in the Snow by James Mitchell & Ben Spray by Peter N...

$35

The Pressures of Life - Four Television Plays - Reasonable Suspicion & A Right Dream of Delight & Speech Day & The Piano

Richard Harris & Michael O'Neil and Jeremy Seabrook & Barry Hines & Julia Jones

Used Copy

$18.99

Ken Loach - Illustrated Filmography

James Oliver - ed

Screenpress

This book attempts to put Loach's work in to context and, whilst offering no analysis of its own, it does present a clear overview of the climate in which Loach's films were made. Well designed and easy to a...

$13.99

The Dramatists Toolkit - The Craft of the Working Playwright

Jeffrey Sweet

Heinemann

This is a practical guide to being a working playwright The author discusses such matters as - the building blocks of playwriting; how characters relate to one another; the differences and similarities betw...

$14.99

Cathy Come Home

Jeremy Sandford

Marion Boyars

Sandford's seminal TV play details the issue of homelessness and the life of a young woman in 1960s London as she moves from her own home, to council accomodation, and finally emergency accomodation for the ...

$16.99