{"title":"Joseph McBride","description":"Joseph McBride is an internationally renowned film historian and biographer and a veteran film and television writer whose decades of experience have brought him a Writers Guild of America Award, four other WGA nominations, two Emmy Award nominations, and a Canadian Film Awards nomination. McBride was one of the screenwriters of the cult classic punk rock musical Rock 'n' Roll High School and co-wrote five American Film Institute Life Achievement Award specials for CBS TV.","products":[{"product_id":"writing-in-pictures-screenwriting-made-mostly-painless-paperback","title":"Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting in Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e is a refreshingly practical and entertaining guide to screenwriting that provides what is lacking in most such books: a clear, step-by-step demonstration of how to write a screenplay. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeasoned screenwriter and writing teacher Joseph McBride breaks down the process into a series of easy, approachable tasks, focusing on literary adaptation as the best way to learn the basics and avoiding the usual formulaic approach. With its wealth of useful tips, along with colorful insights from master screenwriters past and present, this book is invaluable for anyone who wants to learn the craft of screen storytelling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCONTENTS \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntroduction: Who Needs Another Book on Screenwriting? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Storytelling\u003cbr\u003e1: So Why Write Screenplays?\u003cbr\u003e2: What Is Screenwriting? \u003cbr\u003e3: Stories: What They Are and How to Find Them\u003cbr\u003e4: Ten Tips for the Road Ahead \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart II: Adaptation\u003cbr\u003e5: Breaking the Back of the Book: or, The Art of Adaptation\u003cbr\u003eSTEP 1: THE STORY OUTLINE\u003cbr\u003e6: Research and Development \u003cbr\u003eSTEP 2: THE ADAPTATION OUTLINE\u003cbr\u003e7: The Elements of Screenwriting\u003cbr\u003eSTEP 3: THE CHARACTER BIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003e8: Exploring Your Story and How to Tell It\u003cbr\u003eSTEP 4: THE TREATMENT \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart III: Production\u003cbr\u003e9: Who Needs Formatting?\u003cbr\u003e10: Actors Are Your Medium \u003cbr\u003e11: Dialogue as Action\u003cbr\u003eSTEP 5: THE STEP OUTLINE\u003cbr\u003e12: The Final Script\u003cbr\u003e13: Epilogue: Breaking into Professional Filmmaking \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAppendix A: The Basic Steps in the Screenwriting Process\u003cbr\u003eAppendix B: \"To Build A Fire\" by Jack London\u003cbr\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003eIndex \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376647209183,"sku":"9780307742926","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/T1El0mocwk9780307742926.webp?v=1789218254"},{"product_id":"i-loved-movies-but-paperback","title":"I Loved Movies, But... - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe novelist Jonathan Lethem, in his Foreword to \u003cem\u003eI Loved Movies, But..\u003c\/em\u003e., calls Joseph McBride \"an example to me, of discipline, versatility, and abiding with one's obsessions against all odds.... What animates my desire to follow Joe to any lengths, on any subject he engages, whether I already agree with him (Welles! Ford! Hawks! Lubitsch!) or am being seduced into a new exploration (Cukor) or have yet to be fully persuaded (Spielberg) or lack the equipment to judge (Officer Tippit), my response is uniform; I need to know what he thinks; I'm addicted to his form of inquiry and electrified by his gentle ferocity in pursuit of undisclosed or falsified truths. Joe McBride is a seeker, and however disarmingly plainspoken his writing may appear to be, his search, and his rage for truth is a force animating every line he writes. This creates a thrilling energy, a pulse or backbeat in his thought and expression.... In this book of conversation, we learn the personal underpinnings of Joe's voice.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e I Loved Movies, But...\u003c\/em\u003e, celebrated historian, critic, screenwriter, and emeritus professor Joseph McBride turns the lens on himself in a candid, wide-ranging conversation with a longtime friend, the film historian and baseball biographer Danny Peary. Across formative childhood traumas, Hollywood adventures, investigative reporting, landmark biographies and critical studies, and decades of teaching, McBride's life has been characterized by his relentless search for truth-about movies, politics and history, and himself. Honest, funny, unsparing, and deeply humane, this book is both a revelatory autobiography and a love letter to the culture of cinephilia, brimming with stories of Orson Welles, John Ford, Frank Capra, Steven Spielberg, and the obsessive joy of a life spent wrestling with the magic and the seductive illusions of cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377320100063,"sku":"9798899760341","price":38.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Q7IvNrjOye9798899760341.webp?v=1789232791"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/joseph-mcbride.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}