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      • Trusted Partner
        Eric Rohmer
        The Arts
        January 2019

        Eric Rohmer

        by Derek Schilling

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      • Trusted Partner
        Amina Turan in the Country of Nomads
        Children's & YA
        2019

        Amina Turan in the Country of Nomads

        by Zaure Turekhanova

        The book is about the extraordinary and dangerous adventures of a girl, Amina Turan and the inhabitants of the so-called bowls-cities Kos Almalyk in the fabulous Country of Nomads. The veil of surprising mysteries and secrets hidden by the heroes of the story will be slightly opened… An extraordinary, fantastic story begins on Saturday night. Suddenly awakening from her sleep, Amina witnesses that the turtle-box, bought in an antique shop, comes to life and together with her friend, a glass turtle standing on the table goes to explore an amazing sight. Out of curiosity, the girl decides to follow the turtles and unexpectedly finds herself in the magical world of the Country of Nomads.

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      • Sawdust Caesar Screenplay
        Humanities & Social Sciences

        Sawdust Caesar Screenplay

        Feature Film

        by Howard Baker

        SAWDUST CAESAR Stylish young Mod, school-leaver Tommy has to forget his friends and grow up quickly when he gets caught up with the criminal activities of his murdered friend's big brother bent on revenge. The true 'face' of Sixties Mods and Rockers. * Sawdust Caesar depicts the coming-of-age of Tommy who, with his friend Dinger, both fresh out of school, are making a small name for themselves as up-and-coming young criminals. But when Dinger is murdered by Kenser, the leader of a gang of bikers, the mood of the story changes when Dinger's older brother Vince, one of the top men in The Firm, recruits Tommy in place of his little brother. While Tommy's young eyes are being forcibly opened by the more unpleasant aspects of gangland life, Vince continues his search for Dinger's killers, eliminating each of the gang one by one.   To further complicate Tommy's increasingly tenuous relationship with the mob, he is seduced by Beryl, the attractive wife of Ray, the top man. Worse, they are discovered in bed by Vince. But Vince has his own secret, a psychopathic aversion to street girls, and, after berating Tommy for messing around with his best friend's wife, rather than rock the boat he lets the matter drop, preferring instead to use the information as a means of retaining Tommy's diminishing loyalty. Kenser, by now the only survivor of the gang, is caught and achieves unexpected fame as the star of a snuff movie. But Vince's time on Earth also draws to a close when Ray discovers that he is the call-girl killer. Faced with gangland execution, Vince displays an unexpected side to his nature by letting Tommy off the hook - by failing to disclose information which could have led to his own survival.

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      • Fall Out
        Fiction
        May 2020

        Fall Out

        by M.N.Grenside

        The Da Vinci Code meets Get Shorty in this thrilling debut from M.N.Grenside. An LA screenwriter is killed shortly after completing his latest script, FALL OUT - a thriller destined to be a blockbuster but written with a secret double purpose. Echoing events from the past the screenplay is sent to a very specific group of people and will change their lives forever. All are connected to a movie that had abruptly stopped shooting in the jungles of the Philippines years before. FALL OUT exposes the truth about a conspiracy and murder that led to a half-a-billion-dollar fortune for a select few. Follow the story of Producer Marcus Riley, who sets out on an increasingly dangerous quest to get FALL OUT made. From a powerful Agent's office in Hollywood, hidden treasures in Belgravia and a remote chalet in the Swiss Alps to murder at the Cannes Film Festival, Marcus teams up with designer Melinda (Mako) de Turris as they and the other recipients of the screenplay are pursued by an assassin from the past. With clues cleverly concealed in the screenplay, Marcus and Mako unravel a lethal puzzle that for some will bring death, others the truth and ends in a cave with a shocking secret.....

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      • The Betrothed
        Fiction

        The Betrothed

        by Claudio Nizzi, Paolo Piffarerio

        Published in 1985 for the bicentenary of the birth of Manzoni, this comic transpositions had a great success and has succeeded to approach the youngest readers thanks to the simplification of comics. Here Manzoni is the storyteller who appears in his own house to tell the events “on the air”. Nizzi’s screenplay and Piffarerio’s drawing remain true to the text and to seventeenth-century customs, making the narration modern and engaging, as a comic should be.

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      • Great Philippine Jungle Energy Café
        Humanities & Social Sciences

        Great Philippine Jungle Energy Café

        by Alfred A. Yuson

        In Great Philippine Jungle Energy Cafe, everything is happening under the light of eternity. So side by side occur the Revolution of ’96, the demos against Marcos in the ’80s, and banditry in the boondocks in the days of the​ Guardia Civil. Visayan scenery in Spanish times will conjure up the Silliman​ summer workshops of the 1960s, while the career of Leon Kilat is simultaneous​ with the writing of a screenplay based on his life. This hero who becomes a​ sacristan, who becomes a ​Singer salesman, who becomes a circus performer,who becomes a revolucionario, is a good a metaphor for the Filipino as any other.

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      • Convertible
        Film scripts & screenplays
        August 2020

        Convertible

        by Åshild Norun

        It's 1967, and a young Norwegian family leaves Norway for California, looking for opportunity and the free and easy lifestyle. The young immigrants settle in a nice house in the suburb. The couple both find jobs, and the twin girls go to school. Dad buys a convertible, just like mom always wanted. She invites her three siblings for a Christmas visit. Two of them stay on, and the younger sister finds an American boyfriend. Every one wants a piece of the American pie, but the price gradually dawns on the blue-eyed immigrants, as they discover simmering racial divides and unrest over the Vietnam war, and watch the terrifying assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy on the nightly news. The American dream is bittersweet.

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      • Ava in the Night
        Fiction
        June 2020

        Ava in the Night

        by Manuel Vicent

        The Franco regime, cinema and Hollywood glamour all combine in an explosive mix where fiction and reality intermingle in a story set against the backdrop of Spain’s recent history. A young man leaves his hometown and family and heads to Madrid to fulfil his dream of becoming a film director. After arriving in the capital, he heads to the School of Cinema, intent on passing the admission tests which include, in addition to an exam, the creation of a screenplay. This will be his gateway to a glittering universe, full of light and glamour, extraordinarily free. Because in 1950s Francoist Spain, beneath the black, sad and repressive veneer of the toughest years of the dictatorship, there lay a whole new world of art, cinema and literature where the joys of life could be enjoyed under the cover of nightfall.

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      • The Big Brass Ring

        The Big Brass Ring

        by Orson Welles, Oja Kodar

        With a foreword by James Pepper and an essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum. Welles consciously conceived The Big Brass Ring as a companion piece to his masterpiece Citizen Kane. Here he is again concerned with the idea of the great man, and with what happens at the convergence of great talent, public ambition and the undertow of obscure, private longings rooted in the past. A film of The Big Brass Ring, its script heavily edited, appeared in 1999, with William Hurt in the lead role.   More than a footnote to a brilliant career; it is a playful, witty and moving tale of hollow ambition, lost love and loyal friendship…stands in its own right, either as a surprisingly readable cine-novella or, for Welles scholars, as a valuable insight into the filmmaker's personal and artistic preoccupations. - Time Out   The script in its present form, with its witty and extensive stage directions, gives a tremendous sense of what it might have been like in the company of the great raconteur himself. The whole script is sexier than almost anything else of his output too, and the authors have taken great care to let us "see" what the film might have been – enthralling, sexy, funny, and politically as trenchant as anything being made today. - Simon Callow

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      • ANA
        Fiction
        February 2017

        ANA

        by Roberto Santiago

        Ana Tramel: With A for attorney. With A for addicted to alcohol, pills and sex. And with A for anaesthetized (to emotions, adjectives, and sycophants). In this story absolutely everything revolves around her, the protagonist, narrator and dynamo of the plot. In her forties, she’s about to experience a journey to the dark side of the gambling world, and to come up against an international corporation that deals in thousands of millions and has hundreds of lawyers on their payroll. Said with the utmost humility: from this moment on, we are all AnaTramel. In ANA nothing is what it seems. Not one of the characters is exactly a saint. And as Patricia Highsmith said of one of her stories ‘they are going to see a woman do what no male protagonist in literature of the past forty years would dare: behave with compassion, heroism and expose her body and soul to humiliation’.

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      • Tasting Home ((Screenplay)
        Memoirs

        Tasting Home ((Screenplay)

        n/a

        by Judith Newton

        When a young woman with a painful past marries a witty young man who thinks he might be gay, she learns that love, family, and identity take many forms.

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      • The New Ray Bradbury Review #2
        Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

        The New Ray Bradbury Review #2

        by William Touponce (author)

        An annual dedicated to the life and writings of one of America’s most prolific and popular authorsLike its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader scope, including a thematic focus for each issue. Since Nolan composed his slim volume at the beginning of Bradbury’s career, Bradbury has birthed hundreds of stories and half a dozen novels, making him one of this country’s most anthologized authors. While his effect on the genres of fantasy, horror, and science fiction is still being assessed (See Ray Bradbury: The Life of Fiction, Kent State University Press, 2004), there is no doubt of his impact, and to judge from the testimony of his readers, many of them now professional writers themselves, it is clear that he has affected the lives of five generations of young readers.The New Ray Bradbury Review is designed primarily to study the impact of Ray Bradbury’s writings on American culture. It is the central publication of The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, a newly established archive of Bradbury’s writings located at Indiana University. This review is designed principally to study the impact of Ray Bradbury’s writings on American culture. In this second number, scholars discuss Bradbury’s view of the role of art and aesthetics in our modern technological lives. Included are Bradbury’s correspondence with renowned Renaissance art historian and aesthetician Bernard Berenson, a fragment from Bradbury’s screenplay “The Chrysalis,” a review of Now and Forever, and insightful essays by Jon Eller and Roger Lay.Fans and scholars will welcome The New Ray Bradbury Review, as it will add to the understanding of the life and work of this recently honored author, who received both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.

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      • Death By Hitchcock
        Mystery
        2014

        Death By Hitchcock

        An Edwina Goodman Mystery

        by Elissa D. Grodin

        Physics and film seemingly have few academic features in common.  However, when local siren Bunny Baldwin, a student in the Film Studies Department at Cushing College, is found strangled to death on opening night of the Hitchcock Film Festival, Physics professor Edwina Goodman puts on her detecting hat.  Using her scientific sleuthing skills to assist her almost boyfriend Police Detective Will Tenney, the pair work together to investigate the campus murder.  Edwina wants to know––why did the murderer tie a strip of film around the victim’s head?  Why did the killer time the murder to coincide with the showing of the famous Hitchcock film Spellbound?  Was Bunny really killed by strangulation or did the unusual drugs found in her system suggest poisoning? Why do all the suspects have a seemingly airtight alibi? There are certainly sufficient suspects as Edwina quickly ascertains.  The head of the Film Studies Department was having a torrid and practically public affair with the victim.  His wife was apparently furiuous, but not enough to keep her from also engaging in sexual hanky panky.  The victim had stolen a screenplay written by her roommate, Mary, to secure a Hollywood agent.  Mary is out for payback.  A quirky older woman who uses plants and other natural remedies to cure various ailments followed the head of the department around like a moon-struck calf.  And, of course, there’s the film department’s boy savant who plays chess with Edwina and keeps her updated on the various players. Can Edwina use her knowledge of physics to unlock the strange features of this most unusual crime?  When a second murder occurs, it looks like she may––if the killer doesn’t find her first.

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      • Reading More of Roddy Doyle
        Literary studies: general
        February 2012

        Reading More of Roddy Doyle

        by Caramine White

        Reading More of Roddy Doyle provides an in-depth analysis of Roddy Doyle’s work since 1999. Doyle is unique in that he is constantly experimenting with different genres, including: screenplays, biographies, children’s stories, novels, short stories and television. Interestingly, he not only deals with contemporary issues (such as alcoholism and spousal abuse) but has also attempted to contemporize Irish and American history. Caramine White, PhD, offers an overview of Doyle’s oeuvre followed by critical analyses of each of Doyle’s more recent works. All of the major works of fiction are discussed (A Star Called Henry; Oh, Play that Thing; Paula Spencer and The Dead Republic) together with the two short story collections (The Deportees and Bullfighting). White also explores how the memoir Rory and Ita sheds light on Doyle’s other works as well as on the author himself. An analysis of his short stories, screenplays, children’s books, and stage plays is also included. A lengthy and candid interview with Doyle concludes the book.

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      • Meadowlark
        Film scripts & screenplays

        Meadowlark

        by Christine Horner

        FEATURE FILM SCREENPLAY -- Crystal True is a self-invented psychic with a secret. Rising above less-than-mediocrity to become the darling of her small Midwest town, Crystal faces a dark night of the soul when she loses her supernatural gifts and her identity. Unable to hold down a job in the “real” world, she heads out to snowbird country on a lark as the new activities director at The Meadows. With only instinct to rely upon, Crystal reluctantly teams up with a quirky bunch of residents and an archeologist son to investigate Meadows' shenanigans, when instead, she learns to follow her heart, uncovering the family she always dreamed of having.

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      • Preston Sturges
        May 2019

        Preston Sturges

        The Last Years of Hollywood's First Writer-Director 1949-1959

        by Smedley, Nick

        Few directors of the 1930s and '40s were as distinctive and popular as Preston Sturges, whose whipsmart comedies have entertained audiences for decades. With a foreword by Peter Bogdanovich and endorsements from Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Shelton, and James L. Brooks, this book offers a new critical appreciation of Sturges's whole oeuvre, closing with a detailed study of his life, developed from new primary sources, from 1949 until his death in 1959. Nick Smedley details the many unfinished projects of Sturges's last decade, including films, plays, TV series, and his autobiography. Drawing on diaries, sketchbooks, correspondence, unpublished screenplays, and more, Smedley presents Sturges's final years in more detail than we've ever had, showing a master still at work—even if very little of that work ultimately made it to the screen.

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      • To the king of Constantinople

        To the king of Constantinople

        by Fer Calvi

        Only the paranoid can see the conspiracy. And only those who see it, can tell it. The protagonist of this story is a TV screenwriter. Curious eyes follow her on the street, she receives threatening phone calls, her scripts appear with miserious modifications, and she keeps getting intercepted by a spy in the most various disguises. This is how she gets entangled in a flawed sci-fi intrigue: the important information isn’t properly hidden and the villains don’t seem to want to hide their plans. Is it worst to ignore, or to know? Fernando Calvi plays with the basic elements of this genre (aliens, heroes, power) and displays all of its rules. Those who can follow them precisely may destroy the Final Boss. The protagonist from To the king of constantinople is a TV screenwriter. Laughing eyes follow her around, she receives threatening phone calls, her screenplays are rewritten, and a spy hidden in the most various disguises keeps getting in her way. Just like that she will get entangled in a deficient sci-fi conspiracy: information is not duly hidden, and the villains don’t seem to want to hide their plans. What’s worse: to know or to ignore?

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      • The Last Scenario

        The Last Scenario

        by Marcos Gabriel

        I’m just a high school biology teacher in southern California. I wrote a paper on bio-toxins in college. Nine months ago the government asked me to be the ‘ordinary citizen’ on a seven-member panel. For three days we brainstormed potential homegrown terrorist scenarios. That was all.I thought. “We’re the only two left,” John Ryder said, no emotion in his voice. “The others have been assassinated. If you want to live, you’ll have to come with me.” Terrorists have adopted one of the team's scenarios, and if they’re successful, it could claim a half-million lives. Samantha Waters and ex-Navy SEAL John Ryder are caught in the middle of a dark conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of power. They have to rely on each other to survive—and to somehow stop the nightmare scenario they imagined before it becomes a terrifying reality. Marcos Gabriel is an award-winning writer whose body of work includes novels, plays, screenplays, and television productions. Working in Los Angeles as the Creative Director of an entertainment advertising agency, he has crafted television commercials and theatrical trailers for many blockbuster and critically-acclaimed Hollywood films. Marcos lives in Southern California with his wife and two children. Marcos Gabriel is a member of the International Thriller Writers Association.

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