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Section B · Book Reviews 34 entries 25 August 2026

Book Reviews

Jack Brislee is our in-house book reviewer. He accepted to review as many books on screenwriting as possible. Then he found out Amazon lists 2,000+

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  1. You Can Write a Movie

    “You Can Write a Movie” by Pamela Wallace Writers Digest Books, Cincinnati, Ohio. 2000. 118 pages. ISBN 0-89879-974-0 Amazon Price:…

    6 min
  2. Writing Drama

    “Writing Drama: A Comprehensive Guide for Playwrights and Scriptwriters” by Yves Lavandier. Translated from the French by Bernard Besserglik. Le…

    6 min
  3. Reviewed: Personality

    “Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are” by Daniel Nettle. Oxford University Press, Oxford 298 pages. ISBN-978-0-19-921142-5 Amazon Price:…

    7 min
  4. The Sequence Approach

    “Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach” by Paul Joseph Gulino. Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. New York, NY 2004. 230 pages. ISBN-13:…

    6 min
  5. Understanding Screenwriting

    “Understanding Screenwriting: Learning from Good, Not-Quite-So-Good, and Bad Screenplays” by Tom Stempel. Continuum New York, N.Y. 2008. 230pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-2939-1…

    6 min
  6. The Screenwriter’s Problem Solver

    The Screenwriter’s Problem Solver: How to Recognise, Identify, and Define Screenwriting Problems” by Syd Field. Bantam Dell. New York, NY…

    7 min