Title: Screenplay
First published: 1979
Description: One of the seminal and much respected texts in the field of screenwriting by one of the greats. 

*Screenplay* has been revised and updated many times and it remains a number one bestseller on Amazon in 2016, years after it was first published. The book contains guidelines to make film-writing accessible to novices and to help practiced writers improve their scripts. Syd Field pinpoints elements essential to a screenplay and provides a step-by-step, comprehensive technique for writing a successful script.
Subjects: Motion picture authorship, Motion picture plays, Technique, Creative writing, Moving-picture authorship, screenwriting, screen plays, fiction authorship, fiction technique, Performing arts, Film