"Gods and Monsters: The Shooting Script"
by Bill Condon
Now published for the first time, the Oscar®-winning script (Best Adapted Screenplay) for the film starring Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, and Lynn Redgrave—in the Newmarket Shooting Script® series format, with new introductions written especially for this edition. This critically acclaimed film was chosen by Entertainment Weekly, Premiere, Rolling Stone, USA Today, The Washington Post, and more than 100 other newspapers and magazines as one of the Ten Best Films of 1998. 
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"Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies"
by Paul Buhle, Dave Wagner 
Full of rich anecdotes, biographical detail, and explorations of movies well-known, unjustly forgotten, and delightfully bizarre, the book is "an intelligent, well argued and absorbing examination of how politics and art can make startling and often strange bedfellows" 
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"Teaching Scriptwriting, Screenplays and Storyboards for Film and TV Production"
by Mark Readman
This practical guide provides everything you need to introduce scriptwriting to your students, and establishes the basis for a high standard of coursework for Film or Media Studies. The guide demonstrates how scriptwriting, screenplays and storyboarding can be valuable both in the production context and as a way of engaging with key aspects of the media or film studies curriculum, with accessible reference to key critical and theoretical writing. 
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"Film Studies (Pocket Essentials)"
by Andrew M. Butler
Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are brief, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. In addition to an introduction to the subject, each topic is individually analyzed and reviewed, examining its impact on culture or history.
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"The Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writings on the Cinema: The First Fifty Years"
by Antonia Lant, Ingrid Periz
As viewers, actresses, directors, and writers, women were centrally involved in cinema throughout the first half of the twentieth century—indeed filmgoing was the most important way in which women participated in the era's urban mass culture. However, the significance of women's contributions has remained scant, usually eclipsed in texts by and about men. 
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