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This is a screenplay about a recently retired insurance manager who is ill. He decides to combat his illness by walking from Land's End to John O'Groats and in doing so becomes a healthier and more aware human being. It is a gentle comedy with serious overtones by the author of "Clockwise".

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An analysis of "Thelma and Louise," "Terminator 2: Judgement Day," "The Silence of the Lambs," and "Dances with Wolves" provides tips on writing scripts for original productions, sequels, novel adaptations, and adaptations by original authors.

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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.

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A comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. The first major study in English for over forty years. Casts new light on Cocteau's most celebrated films as well as the lesser known ones. -- .

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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.

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A study of the "enfant terrible" of French cinema. The ingredients and influences of Carax's films (including "Les Amants du Pont Neuf" and "Pola X") are examined: Paris, pop music, flanerie, amour fou, mannerist and neo-baroque aesthetics, "Nouvelle Vague" and contemporary naturalist cinema.

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This book analyses one of France's most controversial directors. It discusses Louis Malle's treatment of topics such as fascism, incest, child prostitution and the Holocaust. It is the first work published on the director in the English Language. -- .

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Luc Besson is considered one of the hottest international properties to emerge from the new wave of French film directors in the 1980s. This is a study of Besson's film-making career to date, placing the films within their socio-historical and political context.

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The text of the fully annotated playscipts of Orson Welles' celebrated adaptations of three Shakespearean plays. Texts for the "Voodoo" "Macbeth" and the modern dress "Julius Caesar" are stage managers' working copies. The version of "Five Kings" is the oldest surviving text and the most inclusive.

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An original screenplay inspired by Sophocles Antigone, retold through the contemporary Greek crisis and modern European philosophy.

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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.

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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.

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Introduction; 1. Questions of identity in beur cinema: From Le The au harem d'Archimede to Cheb; 2. Beurz in the hood: Le The au harem d'Archimede and Hexagone; 3. Ethnicity and identity in Mathieu Kassovitz's Metisse and La Haine; 4. Beur and banlieue cinema in 1995; 5.

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"The first comprehensive guide to mastering the art and craft of writing scenes, providing screenwriters with a new foundational approach to creating beautifully articulated scripts"--

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First he told readers how to write it, then he told them how to perfect it, now Syd field takes them behind the movie moguls' closed doors and shows how to sell a screenplay--and earn upwards of $100,000 in the process.

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Sling Blade won the 1997 Academy Award for best original screenplay

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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.