Motion picture authorship
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Broader terms:Narrower term:Used for:- Film authorship
- Film-making (Motion pictures)
- Filmmaking (Motion pictures)
- Film scriptwriting
- Motion picture plays -- Authorship
- Motion picture scriptwriting
- Motion pictures -- Play-writing
- Motion picture writing
- Movie-making
- Moviemaking
- Moving-picture authorship
- Screenplay writing
- Screen writing
- Screenwriting
- Scriptwriting, Film
- Scriptwriting, Motion picture
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How to Write a Photoplay (New York: Magazine Maker Pub. Co., c1912), by Herbert Case Hoagland (multiple formats at archive.org)- How to Write a Photoplay (Chicago: Photoplaywrights' Ass'n of America, c1914), by Arthur Winfield Thomas, contrib. by B. P. Schulberg
- Palmer Plan Handbook: Photoplay Writing (No. L, revised edition; Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., 1920), by Frederick Palmer
- Writing the Photoplay (revised edition; Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1919), by J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Elinor Glyn System of Writing (4 volumes; Auburn, NY: The Authors' Press, c1922), by Elinor Glyn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- How to Write Photoplays (Philadelphia: Royal Pub. Co., c1916), by Carl Charlton
- Photoplay Plots and Plot Sources (Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1920), by Eric Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Photoplay Plot Encyclopedia (series Y; Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1920), by Frederick Palmer and Eric Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Photoplay Plot Encyclopedia (second revised edition; Los Angeles: Palmer Photoplay Corp., c1922), by Frederick Palmer
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Authorship- Bad Ideas About Writing (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Libraries Digital Publishing Institute, c2017), ed. by Cheryl E. Ball and Drew M. Loewe (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
- Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Signature Pieces: On the Institution of Authorship (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1988), by Peggy Kamuf (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
- The Work of Authorship (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2014), ed. by Mireille M. M. van Eechoud (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
- A Vindication of the Press (1718) (Augustan Reprint Society publication #29; Los Angeles: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, contrib. by Clinton Williams (Gutenberg text)
- The Psychology of Writing Success (New York: The Business bourse, 1933), ed. by J. George Frederick, contrib. by A. A. Brill, Thyra Samter Winslow, Mary Austin, Floyd Dell, and Thomas H. Uzzell (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Act of Writing: A Media Theory Approach, by Daniel Chandler (Word with commentary in the UK)
- The Art of Short Story Writing (Cincinnati: Publishers Syndicate, 1910), by George Randolph Chester
- The Art of Story Writing: Facts and Information About Literary Work of Practical Value of Both Amateur and Professional Writers (New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Nathaniel C. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Author's Craft, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- The Author's Year Book and Guide for 1904: Including Some 600 Names and Addresses of Publishers and Publications to Whom Manuscripts May be Sold (1904), ed. by W. E. Price (page images at HathiTrust)
- Beyond Life: Dizain des Demiurges (New York: R. M. McBride and Co., 1919), by James Branch Cabell (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Craftsmanship of Writing (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1920), by Frederic Taber Cooper (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (published under "John Milton Edwards" pen name; Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook
- If You Don't Write Fiction (New York: R. M. McBride Co., 1920), by Charles Phelps Cushing (Gutenberg text and page images)
- Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913), by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
- Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Percival Pollard
- The Writer's Book: A Compendium of Information Upon Matters Pertaining to the Trade of Authorship (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, c1922), by James Knapp Reeve (page images at HathiTrust)
- How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
- Trials of Authorship: Anterior Forms and Poetic Reconstruction from Wyatt to Shakespeare (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Jonathan V. Crewe (HTML at UC Press)
- The Art of Inventing Characters (Franklin, OH: J. K. Reeve, 1922), by Georges Polti, trans. by Lucille Ray (page images at HathiTrust)
- Books Fatal to Their Authors, by P. H. Ditchfield (Gutenberg text)
- Conjectures on Original Composition, by Edward Young (HTML at Toronto)
- Essays in the Art of Writing, by Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text)
- My First Book (London: Chatto and Windus, 1894), contrib. by Walter Besant, William Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, M. E. Braddon, F. W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R. M. Ballantyne, Israel Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert Williams Buchanan, and Robert Louis Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-Known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings (Garden City, NY and Toronto: Pub. for the Authors' League of America by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1921), ed. by Gelett Burgess (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Principles of Success in Literature, by George Henry Lewes (Gutenberg text)
- The Principles of Success in Literature (London et al.: W. Scott Pub. Co., ca. 1898), by George Henry Lewes, ed. by T. Sharper Knowlson
- The Stories Editors Buy and Why (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., c1921), ed. by Jean Wick (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Crip Authorship: Disability as Method, ed. by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (multiple formats with commentary at NYU Press)
- (First Person)²: A Study of Co-Authoring in the Academy (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2001), by Kami Day and Michele Eodice
- Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello, trans. by Edward Storer
- New Grub Street, by George Gissing
- The Celebrity, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
- Dom Casmurro (in Portuguese; Rio de Janeiro and Paris: H. Garnier, 1899), by Machado de Assis (Gutenberg text)
- The Country of the Pointed Firs (21-chapter version), by Sarah Orne Jewett (Gutenberg text)
- The Country of the Pointed Firs (24-chapter version, 1910), by Sarah Orne Jewett (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Truth About Writing: An Essential Handbook for Novelists, Playwrights, and Screenwriters (c2003), by Michael Allen (PDF in the UK)
- The Writing and Selling of Non-Fiction (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1963), by Paul R. Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
- Writing for the Quality Market: A Scientific Analysis of Eight Quality Magazines Showing Requirements, Policy and Slanting (New York: Publications Division, Literary America, c1935) (page images at HathiTrust)
- "1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts" (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Co., c1915), ed. by William Reno Kane (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 88 Ways to Make Money by Writing (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Co., c1917), by Homer Croy (page images at HathiTrust)
- Five Hundred Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Manual Designed for the Guidance of Writers in Disposing of Their Work (first edition; Franklin, OH: Chronicle Press, c1894), ed. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Five Hundred Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Manual Designed for the Guidance of Writers in Disposing of Their Work (fourth edition; Franklin, OH: Editor Pub. Co., 1900), ed. by James Knapp Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Information for Authors: Hints and Suggestions Concerning All Kinds of Literary Work (Brooklyn: E. Kirk, 1888), by Eleanor Kirk (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Lure of the Pen: A Book for Would-Be Authors (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Flora Klickmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The New 1001 Places to Sell Manuscripts: A Complete Guide for All Writers Who are Seeking Avenues for the Publication of Original Manuscripts (Franklin, OH: James Knapp Reeve, 1922), ed. by James Knapp Reeve and Agnes M. Reeve (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Practical Hints for Young Writers, Readers, and Book Buyers (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1897), by Frederic Lawrence Knowles (page images at HathiTrust)
- Writing for the Magazines (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1916), by J. Berg Esenwein (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Art and Business of Story Writing (New York: Macmillan, c1912), by Walter B. Pitkin
- Where to Sell Manuscripts: An Alphabetical and Classified List Arranged for the Writer's Convenience (New York: Hannis Jordan Co., 1915), by Hannis Jordan Company (page images at HathiTrust)
- Writing for Money: How to Write Saleable Manuscripts; Where and Way to Sell Manuscripts; Over Two Thousand Places to Sell Manuscripts (Chicago: International literary bureau, c1913), by John V. Lambert (page images at HathiTrust)
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