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I hear America typing: A survey of scriptwriting manuals
Richard A. Blum.
Television Writing: From Concept to Contract. New York: Hastings House, 1980. viii + 184 pp. $8.95, paper.
Robert Edmonds.
Scriptwriting for the Audio-Visual Media. New York: Teachers College Press, 1978.185 pp. $10.95, paper.
Syd Field.
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. New York: Dell, 1979. xii + 212 pp. $4.95, paper.
Rolando Giustini.
The Filmscript: A Writer's Guide. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980. xii + 243 pp. $6.95, paper.
Robert Lee and Robert Misiorowski.
Script Models: A Handbook for the Media Writer. New York: Hastings House, 1978.96 pp. $4.50, paper.
Martin Maloney and Paul Max Rubenstein.
Writing for the Media. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1980. x + 293 pp. $14.95, cloth.
Constance Nash and Virginia Oakey.
The Screenwriter's Handbook: What to Write, How to Write It, Where to Sell It. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1978. x + 149 pp. $3.95, paper.
Wells Root.
Writing the Script: A Practical Guide for Films and Television. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. xvi + 210 pp. $5.95, paper.
The avoidance of criticism
Brian Henderson.
A Critique of Film Theory. New York: E. P. Dut-ton, 1980. 233 pp. $8.95.
The self-realized critic
Beverle Houston and Marsha Kinder.
Self and Cinema: A Trans-formalist Perspective. Pleasantville, New York: Redgrave, 1980. 461 pp. $12.70.
Lubitsch reconsidered
Leland A. Poague.
The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch. South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes, 1978.
Robert Carringer and Barry Sabath.
Ernst Lubitsch: A Research and Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.
The cinema must answer to Hungarians
Georges Sadoul.
Panorama du cinéma hongrois. Paris: Les Éditeurs francais réunis, 1952. 62 pp., illustrated.
István Nemeskürty.
Word and Image: History of the Hungarian Cinema. Budapest: Corvina Press, 1974. 252 pp., illustrated.
Graham Petrie.
History Must Answer to Man: The Contemporary Hungarian Cinema. Budapest: Corvina Press, 1978. 284 pp., illustrated.
Yvette Biró.
Miklós Jancsó. Preface by Andrzej Wajda. Paris: Editions Albatros, 1977. 142 pp., illustrated.
The British factual film of the 1930s
Rachel Low.
History of the British Film 7929-39; Documentary and
Educational Films of the 1930s.
New York: R. R. Bowker, 1979. 244 pp.
Rachel Low.
History of the British Film 1929-39: Films of Comment
and Persuasion of the 1930s.
New York: R. R. Bowker, 1979. 256 pp.
Crime marches on
Carlos Clarens.
Crime Movies: An Illustrated History. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1980. 351 pp. $16.95.
World War II films: Three books in review
Roger Manvell.
Films and the Second World War. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1974. 388 pp.
Lawrence H. Suid.
Guts & Glory: Great American War Movies. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1978. 357 pp.
Colin Shindler.
Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society 1939-1952. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. 152 pp.
