Screenplays and Screenwriting

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Buy it!	Field, Syd. 1994. Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay. New York: Dell Publishing.
Buy it!	Field, Syd. 1982. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. Expanded Edition. New York: Delacorte Press.
Buy it!	Syd Field's Screenwriting Workshop. 1999. Video. Color, NTSC.
Buy it!	Field, Syd. 1998. The Screenwriter's Problem Solver. New York: Dell Pub. Co.
Buy it!	Goldman, William. 1983. Adventures in the Screen Trade. New York: Warner Books.
Buy it!	Goldman, William. 2001. Which Lie Did I tell? More Adventures in the Screen Trade. New York: Vintage Books.
Buy it!	Goldman, William. 1997. William Goldman : Four Screenplays With Essays : Marathon Man, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Princess Bride, Misery. Applause Theatre Book Pub.
Buy it!	Goldman, William. 1997. William Goldman : Five Screenplays With Essays : All the President's Men, Magic, Harper, Maverick, the Great Waldo Pepper. Applause Theatre Book Pub
Buy it!	Potter, Dennis. 1986. The Singing Detective. New York: Vintage Books.
Buy it!	Seger, Linda. 1992. The Art of Adaptation: Turning Fact into Film. New York: Henry Holt.
Buy it!	Seger, Linda. 1988. Making a Good Script Great. Los Angeles: Samuel French.
Buy it!	Towne, Robert. 1997. Chinatown and the Last Detail : 2 Screenplays. New York: Grove Press.
Buy it!	Trottier, David. 1998. The Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script. New York: Silman-James Press.

Online

There are hundreds of screenwriting Web sites and screenwriters groups around the world. Check your local arts organizations for listings and search the Web.

Linda Seger answers your questions at the Hollywood Network Web site.

To purchase screenplays and books on screenwriting, budgeting, scheduling, and just about any other aspect of the motion picture industry, you can always contact

Larry Edmunds Bookshop, Inc., 6644 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028. Phone 213-463-3273, fax 213-463-4245.

Drama Book Shop, 723 Seventh Ave., New York, NY 10019. Phone 212-944-0595.

Cinema Books, 4653 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105. Phone 206-547-7667.

Script City, 8033 Sunset Blvd., #1500, Hollywood, CA 90046. Phone 213-871-0707.

Theatrebooks, Ltd., 11 St. Thomas St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 2B7, Canada. Phone 416-922-7175.

Writer's Computer Store, 11317 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90025-3118. Phone 310-479-7774, fax 310-477-5314. E-mail writerscom@aol.com.

Organizations

Writers Guild of America (WGA) offers screenplay registration, lists of literary agencies, and other information. They also publish Written By, a magazine about the screenwriting trade. West Coast Office, 7000 West 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA 90048. Phone 323-782-4520. East Coast Office, Writers Guild of America (WGA) East, 555 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019. Phone 212-767-7800.

Writer's Guild of Canada offer script registration and other information. Send $20 Canadian and your script to Writer's Guild of Canada, 123 Edward St., Suite 1225, Toronto, ON M5G 1E2, Canada. Phone 416-979-7907.

American Screenwriters Association (ASA) is organized for educational purposes, including the promotion of and encouragement of the public’s participation in and knowledge of screenwriting as an art form. American Screenwriters Association, 269 S. Beverly Drive, Ste 2600, Beverly Hills, CA 90212-3807. Fax 513-731-9212. E-mail asa@asascreenwriters.com.