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(Paperback, New edition)

By: Orson Welles

ISBN: 9780413771872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A companion to "Citizen Kane" - the film that was designed to shock - this text opens with an essay evaluating the making of the film. The original screenplay follows, illustrated with 40 stills and frame enlargements, together with notes on the difference between the script and the film.


(Paperback, New Edition - New ed)

By: Jonathan Harvey

ISBN: 9780413705709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Thamesmead is a tough estate for Jamie and Ste to grow up on, with Jamie's mother's latest unlikely boyfriend and Ste's violent, alcoholic father. This screenplay explores the flowering of love between the two boys on their South London estate as they discover their homosexuality.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Poliakoff

ISBN: 9781408185599
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)

By: Stephen Poliakoff

ISBN: 9781408122266
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Glorious 39 is the screenplay of the new blockbuster film by award-winning writer/director Stephen Poliakoff released in cinemas in November 2009. In this tense psychological thriller set on the eve of WWII, a young woman stumbles across evidence of a sinister Nazi appeasement plot that will stop at nothing to achieve its aims.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Poliakoff

ISBN: 9780713688115
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Two major new screenplays by the inimitable, award-winning Stephen Poliakoff made for the BBC and HBO Films and due to be broadcast in autumn 2007 . A stellar cast led by Michael Gambon and Dame Maggie Smith feature in these exquisite, major new films that are linked by a grand house and memories of the past.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Poliakoff

ISBN: 9780413764300
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The script of the television screenplay, "Natural Strangers" tells the story of a family reunion in a grand London hotel, where Raymond, his wife Esther and his son Daniel, are slowly drawn into their ancestor's family tree. Stephen, appointed "pedigree hunter" and archivist, unravels the past.


(Paperback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780413711700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A screenplay by Nick Dear, this text is an adaptation of Jane Austen's novel "Persuasion". It is the story of Anne Elliot who is engaged to a naval officer but is persuaded to abandon thoughts of marriage to him on the grounds of his dubious financial prospects.


(Paperback)

By: Cherry Potter

ISBN: 9780413752901
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this insightful text, Cherry Potter has used her extensive experience to provide a combination of analysis and inspiration. She uses sequences from films to present a series of master classes on the technique and meaning of classic film moments, and includes practical exercises and advice.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Poliakoff

ISBN: 9780413731401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A series of three-hour-long linked plays for BBC2 plus two shorter plays


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By: Billy Bob Thornton

ISBN: 9780413723000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Sling Blade won the 1997 Academy Award for best original screenplay


(Paperback)

By: Irvine Welsh

ISBN: 9780413724205
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This collection is made up of "The Granton Star Cause", "The Acid House" and "A Soft Touch". All three stories come from the badlands of the schemes of north Edinburgh and take us into a dark world of drugs, deviant sex and football hooliganism.


(Paperback, Tie-In - Film tie-in ed)

By: Arthur Miller

ISBN: 9780413709806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This screenplay is Miller's own adaption of his 20th century classic play about the Salem witch trials of 1692. The book includes twenty stills from the Twentieth Century Fox film starring Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder,


(Paperback)

By: Anthony Minghella

ISBN: 9780413715005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A novel that takes place as the Second World War is ending, and explores the lives of four very different people who find themselves sheltering together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. From the author of SKIN OF A LION.


(Paperback, New Edition - New ed)

By: F.M. Dostoevsky

ISBN: 9780413728906
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The film script for a major film from Channel Four Films and Canal+ Image International, from director Karoly Makk and producer Marc Vlessing. Starring Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West and Luise Rainer.


(Paperback)

By: David Carradine

ISBN: 9780713687781
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The quirky, strange and utterly sagacious meditations of David Carradine written during the making of Quentin Tarantino's contemporary classic in which Carradine played the lead role.


(Paperback)

By: Barrie Keeffe

ISBN: 9780413722904
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The screenplay of the classic British gangster film. Harold Shand has made it from Whitechapel to running his own "corporation", even forging links with the Mafia. Everything indeed is coming up roses, until the Easter weekend when enemies unknown embark on a series of lethal outrages against him.


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Poliakoff

ISBN: 9780413773074
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Following the life and times of Prince John, the forgotten youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, this dramatization reveals how, diagnosed as epileptic and suffering from learning difficulties he was shut away at the age of 12 to prevent the family from public embarrassment.


(Paperback)

By: Tim Adler

ISBN: 9780413771520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Focuses on the lives and works of the producers, this book is about people whose job is to dominate every facet of the film-making process, from conception, to script, and after. Through the interviews of Michael Douglas, it explains the history of some of the successful films and looks at the skill and experience to survive in this business.


(Paperback)

By: Patricia Highsmith

ISBN: 9780413732200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This is the text of the play by Phyllis Nagy, "The Talented Mr Ripley", written in the 1990s.


(Paperback)

By: Anthony Minghella

ISBN: 9780413742001
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The complete screenplay of Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY. Set throughout Italy (Ischia, Palermo, Rome, Tuscany and Venice), Minghella brings to life Highsmith's amoral tale of a criminal who gets away with murder.


(Hardback)

By: Billy Roche

ISBN: 9780413718006
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A major release from Initial films for Channel Four starring Stephen Rea and Richard Harris. Award-winning writer Billy Roche and director Gillies Mackinnon create a strange compelling world on the edge of society


(Paperback)

By: Trevor Nunn

ISBN: 9780413712806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The screenplay from the film, revolves around mistaken identities and unrequited love, further complicated by a comic sub-plot. Shakespeare's romantic comedy has been adapted for screenplay by Trevor Nunn, for Renaissance films, responsible for "Much ado about Nothing" and "Hamlet"


(Paperback)

By: Stephen Poliakoff

ISBN: 9780413775603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From the writer/director of The Lost Prince, these are two major screenplays for the BBC from 2006 that richly showcase all the hallmarks of 'our best and most poetic TV dramatist' (Daily Telegraph).