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Across Screenwriting, Screenplays, Film, and Performing Arts — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Barbie by Greta Gerwig.

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Writing the Romantic Comedy The Art and Craft of Writing Screenplays That Sell — Billy Mernit

Writing the Romantic Comedy The Art and Craft of Writing Screenplays That Sell

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Asteroid City — Wes Anderson

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Scripts from the Crypt The Hideous Sun Demon — Tom Weaver

Scripts from the Crypt The Hideous Sun Demon

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The Guide for Every Screenwriter From Synopsis to Subplots: The Secrets of Screenwriting Revealed — Geoffrey D Calhoun

The Guide for Every Screenwriter From Synopsis to Subplots: The Secrets of Screenwriting Revealed

Geoffrey D Calhoun

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy Two Screenplays — David Mamet

The Spanish Prisoner and The Winslow Boy Two Screenplays

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller — Jeff Lyons

Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Slam — Richard H. Stratton

Richard H. Stratton

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing Theater, Film, and Television — Janet Neipris

A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing Theater, Film, and Television

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need — Blake Snyder

Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

London Kills Me — Hanif Kureishi

London Kills Me

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Scriptwriting for the Screen — Charlie Moritz

Scriptwriting for the Screen

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The Serious Guide to Joke Writing How to Say Something Funny about Anything — Sally Holloway

The Serious Guide to Joke Writing How to Say Something Funny about Anything

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Haunt Screenplay & Filmmaker Diaries — Scott Beck

Haunt Screenplay & Filmmaker Diaries

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea — I. MacDonald

Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Kill the Dog The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth — Paul Guyot

Kill the Dog The First Book on Screenwriting to Tell You the Truth

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion — Neil Gaiman

The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way 20th Anniversary Edition, Newly Revised and Updated — Hal Ackerman

Write Screenplays That Sell: The Ackerman Way 20th Anniversary Edition, Newly Revised and Updated

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting Aristotle and the Modern Scriptwriter — Brian Price

Classical Storytelling and Contemporary Screenwriting Aristotle and the Modern Scriptwriter

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Into the Woods How Stories Work and why We Tell Them — John Yorke

Into the Woods How Stories Work and why We Tell Them

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

“You Talkin’ to Me?” The Definitive Guide to Iconic Movie Quotes — Brian Abrams

“You Talkin’ to Me?” The Definitive Guide to Iconic Movie Quotes

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The GoFaSt Guide to Screenwriting The Goals, Failures and Stakes Model of Narrative Storytelling — Greg Takoudes

The GoFaSt Guide to Screenwriting The Goals, Failures and Stakes Model of Narrative Storytelling

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

The Gardener’s Son — Cormac McCarthy

The Gardener’s Son

Cormac McCarthy

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

How to Write a Movie in 21 Days (Revised Edition) The Inner Movie Method — Viki King

How to Write a Movie in 21 Days (Revised Edition) The Inner Movie Method

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

Your Storytelling Potential The Underground Guide to Finally Writing a Great Screenplay Or Novel — Mitchell German

Your Storytelling Potential The Underground Guide to Finally Writing a Great Screenplay Or Novel

Mitchell German

Themes: Screenwriting • Screenplays • Film

If Barbie by Greta Gerwig is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Screenwriting, Screenplays, Film and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Billy Mernit, Wes Anderson, Tom Weaver, Geoffrey D Calhoun, and others.

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