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Bookstore: Published Screenplays, DVD's, Screenplay Summaries, Screenwriting Books, Web Sources and Cited Materials

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To purchase a Screenplay Summaries, please click on the link to open a new window. The Screenplay Summaries are based on the movie and shooting script. I have not included a listing of free screenplays online because many are just early drafts. Because the completed movie has been re-written and thought about by experienced directors, producers, actors and editors, it is most likely to be the most coherent, effective and marketable version of the screenwriter's story, and thereby the most didactic.

Published Screenplays (Shooting Scripts)

Movie Title	Screenwriter	Purchase Screenplay	Purchase DVD	Purchase Screenplay Summary

Brokeback Mountain	Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana	Brokeback Mountain: Screenplay	Brokeback Mountain: DVD	Brokeback Mountain: Screenplay Summary
Casablanca	Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch	Casablanca: Screenplay	Casablanca: DVD	Casablanca: Screenplay Summary
Cast Away	William Broyles Jr.	Cast Away: Screenplay	Cast Away: DVD	Cast Away: Screenplay Summary
Double Indemnity	Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler	Double Indemnity: Screenplay	Double Indemnity: DVD	Double Indemnity : Screenplay Summary
Juno	Diablo Cody	Juno: Screenplay	Juno: DVD	Juno : Screenplay Summary
Little Miss Sunshine	Michael Arndt	Little Miss Sunshine: Screenplay	Little Miss Sunshine: DVD	Little Miss Sunshine : Screenplay Summary
(The) Matrix	Larry and Andy Warchowski	The Matrix: Screenplay	The Matrix DVD	The Matrix : Screenplay Summary
Moby Dick	Ray Bradbury and John Huston	Moby Dick: Screenplay	Moby Dick: DVD	Moby Dick : Screenplay Summary
Notes on a Scandal	Patrick Marber	Notes on a Scandal: Screenplay	Notes on a Scandal: DVD	Notes on a Scandal: Screenplay Summary
On the Waterfront	Budd Schulberg	On the Waterfront: Screenplay	On the Waterfront: DVD	On the Waterfront : Screenplay Summary
To Kill a Mockingbird	Horton Foote	To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies and The Trip to Bountiful: Screenplays	To Kill a Mockingbird: DVD	To Kill Mockingbird : Screenplay Summary

Books

Alderson, M.Blockbuster Plots: Pure & Simple. (2005). Illusion Press, Los Gatos, CA.
Altman, R. Film/Genre. (1999). British Film Institute, London England.
Booker, C. The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories. (2006). Continuum, New York, NY.
Card, O.S.Elements of Writing Fiction - Characters & Viewpoint. (1998). Reader's Digest Books, Cincinnati, OH.
Chitlik, P. A. Rewrite: A Step-by-Step Guide to Strengthen Structure, Characters, and Drama in your Screenplay. (2008). Michael Weise Productions, Studio City, CA .
Clark, J.T. The Bare Bones Book of Screenwriting. (2007). WBC Publishing, Newport Beach, CA .
Cowgill, L.J. Secrets of Screenplay Structure. (1999). Lone Eagle Publishing Company, Hollywood, CA .
Egri, L. Art of Dramatic Writing. (1960). Simon & Schuster, New York, NY .
Epstein, A. Crafty Screenwriting: Writing Movies That Get Made. (2002). Henry Holt and Company, New York, NY .
Field, S. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. (1994). Dell Publishing, New York, NY .
Field, S. Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay. Dell Publishing, New York, NY .
Flinn, D.M. How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make. (1999). Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, NY.
Frensham, R. Teach Yourself Screenwriting, Third Edition (Teach Yourself: Arts & Crafts). (2009). McGraw Hill, New York, NY.
Guliano, P.J. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach. (2004) The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc., New York, NY.
Grant, B.K. Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (Short Cuts). (2007). Wallflower Press, London, England.
Hauge, M. Writing Screenplays That Sell: The Complete Step-By-Step Guide for Writing and Selling to the Movies and TV, from Story Concept to Development Deal. (2002). HarperCollins, New York, NY.
Hesley, J.W. and Hesley, J.G. Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning: Using Popular Movies in Psychotherapy, 2nd Edition. (1998). John Wiley & Sons, New York, NY.
Jaffe, I. Hollywood Hybrids: Mixing Genres in Contemporary Films (Film Studies: Genre and Beyond). (2007) Rowan & Littlefield Publishers Inc. (2007). Lanham, MD.
Karetnikova, I. How Scripts are Made. (1990). Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL.
Kawin, B.F. How Movies Work. (1994). University of California Press, Los Angeles, CA.
McKee, R. Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting. (1997). Harper-Collins Publishers, New York, NY.
Noble, J. and Noble, W. Steal This Plot: A Writer's Guide to Story Structure and Plagiarism. (1985). Paul S. Eriksson, Middlebury, VT.
Polti, G. Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations. (1988). The Writer Inc., Boston, MA.
Pope, T. Good Scripts, Bad Scripts: Learning the Craft of Screenwriting Through 25 of the Best and Worst Films in History. (1998). Three Rivers Press, New York, NY.
Sawyer, T. and Weingarten, D. Plots Unlimited: A Creative Source for Generating a Virtually Limitless Number and Variety of Story Plots and Outlines. Ashleywilde Inc., Malibu, CA.
Schmidt, V. 45 Master Characters. (2007). Reader's Digest Books, Cincinnati, OH.
Tobias, R.B. 20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them. (1993). Reader's Digest Books, Cincinnati, OH. Buy .
Tobin, R. The Screenwriting Formula: Why It Works and How To Use It. (2007). Reader's Digest Books, Cincinnati, OH.
Truby, J. The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller. (2007). Faber and Faber Inc. New York, NY.
Vogler, C. The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers, 3rd Edition. (2007). Michael Wiese Productions, Sudio City, CA.
Voytill, S. Myth & the Movies: Discovering the Myth Structure of 50 Unforgettable Films. (1999). Michael Wiese Productions, Studio City, CA.
Walker, M.C. Power Screenwriting: The 12 Stages of Story Development. Lone Eagle Publishing Company, Hollywood, CA.

Web Sources

The Internet Movie Database
The American Film Institute
Mathematical algorithms on Logical Story Units and Global Story Units:
- http://www.hitech-projects.com/euprojects/smash/reports/ieee-tcsvt-98/tu-743-journal.pdf
- http://www.ee.columbia.edu/ln/dvmm/publications/01/icme01_hari.pdf
- http://www.springerlink.com/content/m815821623652g83/fulltext.pdf?page=1
- http://www2.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/IVL.2001.990866
- http://ame2.asu.edu/faculty/hs/pubs/acmmm2k-final.pdf
- http://ame2.asu.edu/faculty/hs/pubs/itmm2k1.pdf
- http://ict.ewi.tudelft.nl/pub/inald/tu-713-portrico.pdf
- http://www.iti.gr/SCHEMA/files/document/27-05-2005/WIAMIS-Benini-Xu-Leonardi.pdf
- http://www.bncf.net/dc2002/program/ft/paper11.pdf
- http://server.cs.ucf.edu/~vision/papers/Rasheed_sigir03.pdf

Scientific Articles

Gunther, E.C., Stone, D.J., Gerwien, R.W., Bento, P. and Heyes, M.P. Prediction of clinical drug efficacy by classification of drug-induced genomic expression profiles in vitro. (2003). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100: 9608-9613.