Reading List


Fall Term—Required


On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Stephen King


Cinematic Storytelling: The 100 Most Powerful Film Conventions Every Filmmaker Must Know

Jennifer Van Sijll


Aristotle's Poetics for Screenwriters: Storytelling Secrets From the Greatest Mind in Western Civilization

Michael Tierno


The Whole Picture: Strategies for Screenwriting in the New Hollywood

Richard Walter


Fall Term—Optional


Film Technique and Film Acting

Vsevolod Illarionovich Pudovkin


When The Shooting Stops...The Cutting Begins: A Film Editor's Story

Ralph Rosenblum


Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

Syd Field


Save The Cat!

Black Snyder


Story: Substance, Structure, Style and The Principles of Screenwriting

Robert McKee


The Screenwriter’s Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting, and Selling Your Script

David Trottier


Reading for a Living: How to Be a Professional Story Analyst for Film and Television

Terri L. Katahn


The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell


The Writer’s Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers

Christopher Vogler


Morphology of the Folktale

Vladimir Propp (trans. Laurence Scott)


Reference


The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style

Christopher Riley