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Born Standing Up

av Steve Martin • 2007

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

Born Standing Up

Arrow through the head, 20,000-seat arenas, and a deliberate exit from stand-up at his peak.

av Steve Martin 2007 271 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy ✍️ Comedy Writing 🏋️ Creative Discipline 🎭 Fame And Isolation 🎬 Hollywood Memoir

Creating Character Arcs

av K.M. Weiland • 2016

Why your character believes a lie, and how that single flaw designs your entire plot.

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🎭 Character Arcs 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Three-Act Structure ⚔️ Inner Conflict 📖 Narrative Theory

Creating Character Arcs

Why your character believes a lie, and how that single flaw designs your entire plot.

av K.M. Weiland 2016 215 sidor

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🎭 Character Arcs 🏗️ Story Structure 🎬 Three-Act Structure ⚔️ Inner Conflict 📖 Narrative Theory

Sonny Boy

av Al Pacino • 2024

South Bronx to The Godfather to fifty million lost. Pacino's most unguarded confession.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Craft 💫 The Cost Of Fame 🍷 Addiction And Recovery 🏙️ Rise From Poverty

Sonny Boy

South Bronx to The Godfather to fifty million lost. Pacino's most unguarded confession.

av Al Pacino 2024 384 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🎭 Acting Craft 💫 The Cost Of Fame 🍷 Addiction And Recovery 🏙️ Rise From Poverty

Star Wars and Philosophy

av Kevin S. Decker • 2005

Jedi ethics, droid minds, and why the Republic fell: the real philosophy hidden inside Star Wars.

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🎥 Film As Philosophy ⚖️ Comparative Ethics 🏛️ Political Decay 🗺️ Hero's Journey

Star Wars and Philosophy

Jedi ethics, droid minds, and why the Republic fell: the real philosophy hidden inside Star Wars.

av Kevin S. Decker 2005 252 sidor

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🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy 🎥 Film As Philosophy ⚖️ Comparative Ethics 🏛️ Political Decay 🗺️ Hero's Journey

Andy Warhols filosofi: från A till B och tillbaka igen

av Andy Warhol • 1975

The most exciting thing is the thing you never do, and the best art is a dollar bill.

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🎨 Pop Art 💭 Pop Philosophy ✍️ Artist Memoirs 💵 Art And Commerce 🌟 Fame And Celebrity

Andy Warhols filosofi: från A till B och tillbaka igen

The most exciting thing is the thing you never do, and the best art is a dollar bill.

av Andy Warhol 1975 272 sidor

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🎨 Pop Art 💭 Pop Philosophy ✍️ Artist Memoirs 💵 Art And Commerce 🌟 Fame And Celebrity

Hitchcock/Truffaut

av François Truffaut • 1985

A bomb under the table, a document nobody cares about: Hitchcock decodes suspense for Truffaut.

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🧱 Film Craft 🎬 Auteur Theory ⏳ Suspense Mechanics ✍️ Screenwriting 🎙️ Director Interviews

Hitchcock/Truffaut

A bomb under the table, a document nobody cares about: Hitchcock decodes suspense for Truffaut.

av François Truffaut 1985 368 sidor

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🧱 Film Craft 🎬 Auteur Theory ⏳ Suspense Mechanics ✍️ Screenwriting 🎙️ Director Interviews

Cinema Speculation

av Quentin Tarantino • 2022

How a child snuck into adult movies in 1970s Los Angeles and came out a filmmaker.

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🎬 New Hollywood 🎞️ Cinephilia 🎥 Genre Cinema 💥 Exploitation Films 📖 Auteur Theory

Cinema Speculation

How a child snuck into adult movies in 1970s Los Angeles and came out a filmmaker.

av Quentin Tarantino 2022 391 sidor

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🎬 New Hollywood 🎞️ Cinephilia 🎥 Genre Cinema 💥 Exploitation Films 📖 Auteur Theory

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

av Chuck Klosterman • 2003

Your Saved by the Bell reruns taught you more about love than Jane Austen.

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🎭 Pop Culture Criticism ✍️ Personal Essays 🎵 Music Criticism 🎬 Film Criticism 📼 Generation X

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Your Saved by the Bell reruns taught you more about love than Jane Austen.

av Chuck Klosterman 2003 256 sidor

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🎭 Pop Culture Criticism ✍️ Personal Essays 🎵 Music Criticism 🎬 Film Criticism 📼 Generation X

The Story Solution

av Eric Edson • 2012

The 23-step structural blueprint that turns a screenplay into an emotional ride.

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📜 Screenwriting 📐 Story Structure 🔄 Character Arcs ⚔️ Conflict Escalation 💬 Dialogue Craft

The Story Solution

The 23-step structural blueprint that turns a screenplay into an emotional ride.

av Eric Edson 2012 330 sidor

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📜 Screenwriting 📐 Story Structure 🔄 Character Arcs ⚔️ Conflict Escalation 💬 Dialogue Craft

Bortom trollstaven

av Tom Felton • 2022

Draco Malfoy taught him to sneer. Three strangers taught him how to live.

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🌟 Child Stardom 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Fame And Identity

Bortom trollstaven

Draco Malfoy taught him to sneer. Three strangers taught him how to live.

av Tom Felton 2022 288 sidor

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🎬 Celebrity Memoir 🌟 Child Stardom 🩹 Addiction Recovery 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Fame And Identity

The Feminist Porn Book

av Tristan Taormino • 2012

Feminism's porn war: dispatches from the women who chose cameras over censorship.

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🎬 Feminist Film 📖 Porn Studies ✊ Sex Worker Rights 🗣️ Sex-Positive Feminism 🖼️ Sexual Representation

The Feminist Porn Book

Feminism's porn war: dispatches from the women who chose cameras over censorship.

av Tristan Taormino 2012 432 sidor

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🎬 Feminist Film 📖 Porn Studies ✊ Sex Worker Rights 🗣️ Sex-Positive Feminism 🖼️ Sexual Representation

Monsters

av Claire Dederer • 2023

Our favorite art was made by awful people. A critic's personal, unresolved struggle with that fact.

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🎨 Art Criticism 🗣️ Cultural Criticism 📝 Essay Collections 🚫 Cancel Culture Debate 👁️ Subjective Criticism

Monsters

Our favorite art was made by awful people. A critic's personal, unresolved struggle with that fact.

av Claire Dederer 2023 257 sidor

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🎨 Art Criticism 🗣️ Cultural Criticism 📝 Essay Collections 🚫 Cancel Culture Debate 👁️ Subjective Criticism

Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

av Robert Rodríguez • 1995

$7,000, no crew: a 23-year-old's diary of shooting a feature in Mexico and breaking into Hollywood.

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🎬 Independent Filmmaking 📹 Guerilla Filmmaking 🔗 Creative Constraints 💰 Bootstrapping 📚 Self-Education

Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker with $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

$7,000, no crew: a 23-year-old's diary of shooting a feature in Mexico and breaking into Hollywood.

av Robert Rodríguez 1995 285 sidor

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🎬 Independent Filmmaking 📹 Guerilla Filmmaking 🔗 Creative Constraints 💰 Bootstrapping 📚 Self-Education

Walt Disney

av Neal Gabler • 2006

The Disney empire: one haunted man's attempt to build a reality he could finally control.

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🎞️ Animation History 🎬 Hollywood Moguls 🎯 Creative Perfectionism 🧠 Psychological Biography 🏢 Corporate Biography

Walt Disney

The Disney empire: one haunted man's attempt to build a reality he could finally control.

av Neal Gabler 2006 851 sidor

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🎞️ Animation History 🎬 Hollywood Moguls 🎯 Creative Perfectionism 🧠 Psychological Biography 🏢 Corporate Biography

Writing for Emotional Impact

av Karl Iglesias • 2005

Only ink on the page. Emotional techniques for making a script reader feel what movie would.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft ❤️ Emotional Storytelling 📖 Reader Engagement 🧑 Character Empathy 🏞️ Scene Craft

Writing for Emotional Impact

Only ink on the page. Emotional techniques for making a script reader feel what movie would.

av Karl Iglesias 2005 238 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft ❤️ Emotional Storytelling 📖 Reader Engagement 🧑 Character Empathy 🏞️ Scene Craft

DisneyWar

av James B. Stewart • 2005

Disney's peacemaker died in a crash, and Eisner declared war on his own executive suite.

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🏢 Boardroom Battles 🎬 Hollywood Business 🎨 Creative Leadership 🔍 Corporate Intrigue 🎞️ Animation History

DisneyWar

Disney's peacemaker died in a crash, and Eisner declared war on his own executive suite.

av James B. Stewart 2005 620 sidor

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🏢 Boardroom Battles 🎬 Hollywood Business 🎨 Creative Leadership 🔍 Corporate Intrigue 🎞️ Animation History

Everything Bad is Good for You

av Steven Johnson • 2005

IQ scores keep rising, and your video game habit may explain why.

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📡 Media Studies 🎭 Pop Culture Analysis 🎮 Video Game Cognition 🧩 Narrative Complexity 🧠 Flynn Effect

Everything Bad is Good for You

IQ scores keep rising, and your video game habit may explain why.

av Steven Johnson 2005 273 sidor

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📡 Media Studies 🎭 Pop Culture Analysis 🎮 Video Game Cognition 🧩 Narrative Complexity 🧠 Flynn Effect

Danse Macabre

av Stephen King • 1981

What scares a society tells you what ails it. King dissects three decades of American nightmare.

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🎬 Horror Criticism 🧠 Psychology Of Fear 🧟 Monster Theory 🎥 Horror Film History ✍️ Horror Writing

Danse Macabre

What scares a society tells you what ails it. King dissects three decades of American nightmare.

av Stephen King 1981 400 sidor

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🎬 Horror Criticism 🧠 Psychology Of Fear 🧟 Monster Theory 🎥 Horror Film History ✍️ Horror Writing

Pageboy

av Elliot Page • 2023

A girlfriend saved as 'Ryan' in his phone. 84 pounds on the scale. Hollywood demanded both.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Memoir 🪞 Gender Dysphoria 💔 Emotional Abuse 🥀 Eating Disorders

Pageboy

A girlfriend saved as 'Ryan' in his phone. 84 pounds on the scale. Hollywood demanded both.

av Elliot Page 2023 271 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Memoir 🪞 Gender Dysphoria 💔 Emotional Abuse 🥀 Eating Disorders

Based on a True Story

av Norm Macdonald • 2016

SNL stardom from a barber-shop town, ruinous gambling nights, and a memoir that admits it's lying.

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📖 Comedic Memoir 🎬 Snl Alumni 🎰 Gambling Addiction 🎭 Show Business

Based on a True Story

SNL stardom from a barber-shop town, ruinous gambling nights, and a memoir that admits it's lying.

av Norm Macdonald 2016 256 sidor

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🎤 Stand-Up Comedy 📖 Comedic Memoir 🎬 Snl Alumni 🎰 Gambling Addiction 🎭 Show Business

Slavoj Zizek

av Tony Myers • 2003

Your cynicism isn't rebellion. According to Žižek, it's the purest form of ideology.

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🧠 Continental Philosophy 📖 Critical Theory 🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🎭 Ideology Critique 🎬 Cultural Criticism

Slavoj Zizek

Your cynicism isn't rebellion. According to Žižek, it's the purest form of ideology.

av Tony Myers 2003 160 sidor

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🧠 Continental Philosophy 📖 Critical Theory 🛋️ Lacanian Psychoanalysis 🎭 Ideology Critique 🎬 Cultural Criticism

Silent Hill

av Bernard Perron • 2006

Fog, radio static, broken controls: Silent Hill made your own mind the real horror.

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🎮 Survival Horror Games 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Psychological Horror 👹 Monster Symbolism 🔊 Game Sound Design

Silent Hill

Fog, radio static, broken controls: Silent Hill made your own mind the real horror.

av Bernard Perron 2006 172 sidor

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🎮 Survival Horror Games 📚 Game Studies 🧠 Psychological Horror 👹 Monster Symbolism 🔊 Game Sound Design

Room to Dream

av David Lynch • 2018

How a filmmaker built Eraserhead and Twin Peaks from dreams and meditation.

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🎬 Auteur Filmmaking 🖼️ Surrealism 💡 Creative Process 🌙 Subconscious In Art 🧘 Transcendental Meditation

Room to Dream

How a filmmaker built Eraserhead and Twin Peaks from dreams and meditation.

av David Lynch 2018 577 sidor

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🎬 Auteur Filmmaking 🖼️ Surrealism 💡 Creative Process 🌙 Subconscious In Art 🧘 Transcendental Meditation

Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters

av Michael Tierno • 2002

The screenwriting manual hiding inside a 2,300-year-old Greek text, decoded for your next draft.

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🏛️ Classical Poetics 3️⃣ Three-Act Structure 🧩 Plot Construction

Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters

The screenwriting manual hiding inside a 2,300-year-old Greek text, decoded for your next draft.

av Michael Tierno 2002 192 sidor

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🎬 Screenwriting Craft 🏗️ Story Structure 🏛️ Classical Poetics 3️⃣ Three-Act Structure 🧩 Plot Construction

The Freelance Manifesto

av Joey Korenman • 2017

Motion designers can hit six figures freelancing. A field guide to portfolio, pricing, and trust.

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🎬 Motion Design 💼 Freelance Business 🎨 Creative Careers 📁 Portfolio Building 🤝 Client Relationships

The Freelance Manifesto

Motion designers can hit six figures freelancing. A field guide to portfolio, pricing, and trust.

av Joey Korenman 2017 360 sidor

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🎬 Motion Design 💼 Freelance Business 🎨 Creative Careers 📁 Portfolio Building 🤝 Client Relationships

Mix It Up

av David Grazian • 2010

Rihanna, the Super Bowl, and Disney: how sociology reveals the social forces behind popular culture.

3.52

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🎥 Media Sociology 🏭 Culture Industry Critique 🎉 Ritual And Solidarity 📡 Diffusion Of Culture 💎 Cultural Capital

Mix It Up

Rihanna, the Super Bowl, and Disney: how sociology reveals the social forces behind popular culture.

av David Grazian 2010 256 sidor

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🎥 Media Sociology 🏭 Culture Industry Critique 🎉 Ritual And Solidarity 📡 Diffusion Of Culture 💎 Cultural Capital

The Princess Diarist

av Carrie Fisher • 2016

She was nineteen, he was a married star. The diaries Carrie Fisher kept on the Star Wars set.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Comic Memoir 🌟 Fame And Identity 🎭 Behind The Scenes 📝 Diary Memoir

The Princess Diarist

She was nineteen, he was a married star. The diaries Carrie Fisher kept on the Star Wars set.

av Carrie Fisher 2016 257 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 😂 Comic Memoir 🌟 Fame And Identity 🎭 Behind The Scenes 📝 Diary Memoir

How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck

av Steve Stockman • 2011

Ten seconds is all your video gets. The working-director playbook for making people stay past that.

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🎬 Video Production 🎥 Beginner Filmmaking 📖 Storytelling Basics 👁️ Visual Storytelling ✂️ Editing And Pacing

How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck

Ten seconds is all your video gets. The working-director playbook for making people stay past that.

av Steve Stockman 2011 248 sidor

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🎬 Video Production 🎥 Beginner Filmmaking 📖 Storytelling Basics 👁️ Visual Storytelling ✂️ Editing And Pacing

Hollywood Babylon

av Kenneth Anger • 1959

Morphine, sex crimes, unsolved murders: real silent Hollywood, exposed by a 1959 tell-all.

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🎬 Early Hollywood 🥂 Hollywood Scandals 🎟️ Hays Code Era ⭐ Star System 🗞️ Scandal Journalism

Hollywood Babylon

Morphine, sex crimes, unsolved murders: real silent Hollywood, exposed by a 1959 tell-all.

av Kenneth Anger 1959 305 sidor

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🎬 Early Hollywood 🥂 Hollywood Scandals 🎟️ Hays Code Era ⭐ Star System 🗞️ Scandal Journalism

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

av Stephen Rebello • 1990

Bored with his own glamour, Hitchcock gambled his fortune on a cheap psycho thriller and won.

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🎬 Film Production 🔪 Horror Cinema 🧠 Psychological Horror 🎞️ Auteur Theory 🖤 True Crime Origins

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Bored with his own glamour, Hitchcock gambled his fortune on a cheap psycho thriller and won.

av Stephen Rebello 1990 204 sidor

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🎬 Film Production 🔪 Horror Cinema 🧠 Psychological Horror 🎞️ Auteur Theory 🖤 True Crime Origins

Producer to Producer

av Maureen Ryan • 2010

Low-budget producing: where to spend, where to cut, and how to get your film seen.

4.23

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🎬 Indie Filmmaking 🎥 Film Producing 💰 Low-Budget Film 📋 Production Workflow 📊 Film Budgeting

Producer to Producer

Low-budget producing: where to spend, where to cut, and how to get your film seen.

av Maureen Ryan 2010 350 sidor

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🎬 Indie Filmmaking 🎥 Film Producing 💰 Low-Budget Film 📋 Production Workflow 📊 Film Budgeting

Pixar Storytelling

av Dean Movshovitz • 2017

Pixar's narrative playbook: what makes a concept rich, a character stick, and an ending feel earned.

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🎬 Screenwriting ✨ Pixar Films 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Arcs ⚔️ Narrative Conflict

Pixar Storytelling

Pixar's narrative playbook: what makes a concept rich, a character stick, and an ending feel earned.

av Dean Movshovitz 2017

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🎬 Screenwriting ✨ Pixar Films 🏗️ Story Structure 👤 Character Arcs ⚔️ Narrative Conflict

Will

av Will Smith • 2021

The secret to Will Smith's empire: a terrified kid, a pile of bricks, and a refusal to stop.

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📖 Celebrity Memoir 🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏆 Redefining Success 🏃 Taking Action

Will

The secret to Will Smith's empire: a terrified kid, a pile of bricks, and a refusal to stop.

av Will Smith 2021 418 sidor

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📖 Celebrity Memoir 🎤 Hip-Hop Memoir 🦁 Overcoming Fear 🏆 Redefining Success 🏃 Taking Action

101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling

av Holger Weßling • 2019

From welfare to a billion dollars: the backstory of Hogwarts in 101 digestible facts.

👤 Author Biography 📚 Literary Trivia 🔍 Behind The Books 💰 Rags To Riches 🧒 Children's Literature

101 Amazing Facts about J.K. Rowling

From welfare to a billion dollars: the backstory of Hogwarts in 101 digestible facts.

av Holger Weßling 2019 27 sidor

👤 Author Biography 📚 Literary Trivia 🔍 Behind The Books 💰 Rags To Riches 🧒 Children's Literature

To Pixar and Beyond

av Lawrence Levy • 2016

Goldman Sachs rejected Pixar. Its CFO took a different road to a billion-dollar IPO.

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🎬 Animation Industry 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🎯 Creative Leadership 🍎 Steve Jobs

To Pixar and Beyond

Goldman Sachs rejected Pixar. Its CFO took a different road to a billion-dollar IPO.

av Lawrence Levy 2016 259 sidor

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🎬 Animation Industry 🔄 Corporate Turnarounds 🎨 Art Vs Commerce 🎯 Creative Leadership 🍎 Steve Jobs

You Are What You Watch

av Walter Hickey • 2023

Horror films thicken your blood. Violent movies cut crime. What we watch remakes us without asking.

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🎬 Media Effects 🎥 Entertainment Industry 👁️ Visual Perception 🌏 Cultural Exports 📼 Nostalgia In Media

You Are What You Watch

Horror films thicken your blood. Violent movies cut crime. What we watch remakes us without asking.

av Walter Hickey 2023 240 sidor

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🎬 Media Effects 🎥 Entertainment Industry 👁️ Visual Perception 🌏 Cultural Exports 📼 Nostalgia In Media

The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character

av William Esper • 2014

William Esper's Meisner: build a character through playable actions, not emotional guesswork.

4.59

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🏫 Meisner Technique 🎓 Actor Training 🎭 Character Creation 💪 Physical Transformation ⏳ Period Acting

The Actor's Guide to Creating a Character

William Esper's Meisner: build a character through playable actions, not emotional guesswork.

av William Esper 2014 304 sidor

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🏫 Meisner Technique 🎓 Actor Training 🎭 Character Creation 💪 Physical Transformation ⏳ Period Acting

Why Not Me?

av Mindy Kaling • 2015

A vampire's diamond skin, a breakaway dance studio, and a weather war: how Twilight got made.

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🎬 Film Production 🎥 Behind The Scenes 📖 Page-To-Screen ✨ Practical Effects 👗 Costume Design

Why Not Me?

A vampire's diamond skin, a breakaway dance studio, and a weather war: how Twilight got made.

av Mindy Kaling 2015 240 sidor

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🎬 Film Production 🎥 Behind The Scenes 📖 Page-To-Screen ✨ Practical Effects 👗 Costume Design

The Sound of Music Story

av Tom Santopietro • 2015

Critics scorned it. The studio feared ruin. Then it ran in theaters for four straight years.

3.76

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🎬 Film Production 🎵 Hollywood Musicals 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Stage To Screen 🎞️ True Story Films

The Sound of Music Story

Critics scorned it. The studio feared ruin. Then it ran in theaters for four straight years.

av Tom Santopietro 2015 324 sidor

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🎬 Film Production 🎵 Hollywood Musicals 🎥 Behind The Scenes 🎭 Stage To Screen 🎞️ True Story Films

Story Structure Architect

av Victoria Lynn Schmidt • 2005

55 plot scenarios, 11 narrative blueprints, and the character types that populate them.

3.83

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🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Narrative Conflict 🎭 Character Archetypes 🎪 Dramatic Theory ✍️ Writing Craft

Story Structure Architect

55 plot scenarios, 11 narrative blueprints, and the character types that populate them.

av Victoria Lynn Schmidt 2005 288 sidor

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🏗️ Story Structure ⚔️ Narrative Conflict 🎭 Character Archetypes 🎪 Dramatic Theory ✍️ Writing Craft

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead

av Jerry Weintraub • 2010

He walked into Colonel Parker's office uninvited and walked out managing Elvis. That was act one.

4.13

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🎬 Entertainment Industry 🎥 Hollywood Memoir 🤝 Deal-Making 🔗 Networking 🔄 Reinvention

When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead

He walked into Colonel Parker's office uninvited and walked out managing Elvis. That was act one.

av Jerry Weintraub 2010 304 sidor

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🎬 Entertainment Industry 🎥 Hollywood Memoir 🤝 Deal-Making 🔗 Networking 🔄 Reinvention

Directors Tell the Story

av Bethany Rooney • 2011

A working director's guide to running a set, shaping performances, and surviving the edit room.

4.47

🎬 Directing Craft 📜 Script Analysis 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🎭 Actor Direction ✂️ Postproduction

Directors Tell the Story

A working director's guide to running a set, shaping performances, and surviving the edit room.

av Bethany Rooney 2011 326 sidor

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🎬 Directing Craft 📜 Script Analysis 👁️ Visual Storytelling 🎭 Actor Direction ✂️ Postproduction

And Then One Day

av Naseeruddin Shah • 2014

His birth year was a mystery. Bollywood wanted a hero. He gave them an actor instead.

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🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🇮🇳 Indian Cinema 🎭 Acting Memoir 🎥 Parallel Cinema 🎨 Artistic Integrity

And Then One Day

His birth year was a mystery. Bollywood wanted a hero. He gave them an actor instead.

av Naseeruddin Shah 2014 328 sidor

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🎬 Bollywood Memoir 🇮🇳 Indian Cinema 🎭 Acting Memoir 🎥 Parallel Cinema 🎨 Artistic Integrity

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

av Bob Odenkirk • 2022

From cult sketch comedy to Saul Goodman: a late-blooming actor's unlikely second act.

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🎭 Sketch Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 📝 Tv Writing 😬 Impostor Syndrome 🌱 Late Bloomers

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

From cult sketch comedy to Saul Goodman: a late-blooming actor's unlikely second act.

av Bob Odenkirk 2022 284 sidor

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🎭 Sketch Comedy 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 📝 Tv Writing 😬 Impostor Syndrome 🌱 Late Bloomers

I Remember Nothing

av Nora Ephron • 2010

Memory shot. Stories intact. Nora Ephron on what stays when everything else goes.

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🗽 New York Writers 🧠 Memory And Forgetting 😄 Aging Humor ✍️ Creative Careers

I Remember Nothing

Memory shot. Stories intact. Nora Ephron on what stays when everything else goes.

av Nora Ephron 2010 137 sidor

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🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🗽 New York Writers 🧠 Memory And Forgetting 😄 Aging Humor ✍️ Creative Careers

Roman by Polanski

av Roman Polański • 2007

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

4.12

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🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

Roman by Polanski

He watched propaganda films through barbed wire. Then he made Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby.

av Roman Polański 2007 448 sidor

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🎬 Filmmaking Memoir 🎥 Director Biographies 🕯️ Holocaust Survival 🧳 Exile And Displacement 🎭 Tragedy And Art

Brave

av Rose McGowan • 2018

Raised in a sex cult, she escaped into Hollywood, where another patriarch was waiting.

3.86

9 000+

🏚️ Cult Survivors 🎬 Hollywood Memoir 🗣️ Survivor Testimony 🏛️ Patriarchal Systems ✊ Fourth Wave Feminism

Brave

Raised in a sex cult, she escaped into Hollywood, where another patriarch was waiting.

av Rose McGowan 2018 258 sidor

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101 screenwriters reveal the habits that separate careers that sell from ones that stall.

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The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters

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A History of India, Vol. 1

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The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

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🔄 Tech Turnarounds 🌉 Silicon Valley 🎭 Second Acts 🎨 Product Design ✨ Creative Perfectionism

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