This authoritative guide will help both fledgling and established writers to negotiate the best deal, protect their work, and get fair compensation for it. One of the most powerful entertainment lawyers in Hollywood provides easy-to-understand, expert advice on all the legal issues involved in the business of screenwriting. He gives an enlightening explanation of the screenwriter's position in the industry and then provides a thorough discussion of...

Ladybug is a great hugger. But will her friends let her hug? Find out in this surprising book all about consent.

¿Cómo aparece retratada la justicia en el cine y la televisión que vemos? ¿Qué aparece en la pantalla como la realidad" de tribunales, jueces, fiscales y abogados? Para abordar estas preguntas se propuso a los autores de este libro que escogieran una película, un director o un tema, para examinar aquello que la producción cinematográfica o televisiva nos dicen acerca de la justicia que tenemos. Dieciocho autores, residentes en siete países,...

Carnival glamour and hot romance in Book 3 of the latest dark YA contemp series by the author of Every Breath.A teenage contortionist and a young cardsharp risk danger to right a family legacy of injustice.…Nineteen-year-old contortionist Ren Putri is committed to circus, study and self-discipline – in that order. But after being rescued from a carnival fire by cardsharp Zep Deal, she's overwhelmed by some highly disorderly thoughts. Zep has a...

Carnival glamour and swoon-worthy romance in Book 1 of the latest dark YA contemp series from the author of Every Breath.A teenage trapeze artist and an apprentice strongman on the run from a terrible crime…Seventeen-year-old Sorsha Neary's life is changed in one night when she defends herself behind the vans of her family circus troupe. Now Sorsha and apprentice strongman Colm Mackay are travelling south, to evade the fallout and escape the long...

The legal resources of studios and networks are legendary, often intimidating independent producers, writers, actors, directors, agents, and others as they try to navigate through the maze of legal details. This invaluable reference presents the interests of talent as well as the point of view of creative executives, producers, entertainment attorneys, agents and managers, and major guilds-making clear the role that each plays in the dealmaking process....

This MUST-HAVE film-financing book provides 50 ways for filmmakers, producers, directors, actors, film students and film instructors to utilize in raising money to finance a film, lower the budget and bring the project to fruition. Bonus information include, a checklist of all 50 ways to finance a film, over 175 film resources, information on preparing a chain of title, details on options and acquisitions of literary material for a film, sources of...

Since the beginning of the twentieth century, photographic composition has been taught mostly by applying the principles from the field of graphic design. But the factor that distinguishes the work of master photographers is their ability to see and describe scenes visually. This book follows contemporary educational methods used to teach fine arts such as drawing and painting, concentrating on teaching the perception of critical visual elements and...

Countering the misperceptions about Broadway performers leading glamorous lives, the words of more than 150 Broadway stars provide unprecedented insight into their struggle for stardom. With an introduction by Jason Alexander and candid interviews with today's most celebrated Broadway stars, this book offers stories to entertain and astonish theater lovers, as well as serve as a sobering reality check for those considering careers on the stage. This...

From Gerald Ford's preemptive pardon of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump's claims that as president he could pardon himself to the posthumous royal pardon of Alan Turing, the power of the pardon has a powerful hold on the political and cultural imagination. In Theaters of Pardoning, Bernadette Meyler traces the roots of contemporary understandings of pardoning to tragicomic "theaters of pardoning" in the drama and politics of seventeenth-century England....