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
