Lectures tagged "Screenwriting"


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Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women
Harriet Reisen
October 29, 2009
00:54:33
Screenwriter Harriet Reisen discusses her new biography Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women.
Beyond the Margins and Between the Lines
Scott Kirsner
October 24, 2009
00:57:08
Two innovators talk about employing a variety of narrative strategies to tell a story. Tim Kring, developer and executive producer of the blockbuster NBC show Heroes, gives a visual presentation about his use of transmedia storytelling. Reif Larson, whose The Collected Works of T. S.
John Hodgman Interviewed by Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta
October 24, 2009
00:52:45
Tom Perrotta grills (or perhaps roasts, as on a slow-burning fire) the man whose irresistible humor begat Hodgmania on topics ranging from the sublime to the downright silly.
James Ellroy: Blood's a Rover
James Ellroy
September 23, 2009
00:42:43
Los Angeles crime novelist James Ellroy tells the story of how, when he was a newborn, the borzoi dog of book publisher Alfred A. Knopf visited him in the hospital and told him that he had to write a great novel to save Americans from illiteracy in the year 2009.
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Acting and Directing for Stage and Screen
Jay DiPietro
June 20, 2009
00:45:07
Jay DiPietro, Dallas Roberts, Allessandro Nivola, and David Hoffman discuss the art of acting and directing on stage and screen, as part of the 2009 Provincetown Film Festival.
Joss Whedon: Cultural Humanist
Joss Whedon: Cultural Humanist
Joss Whedon
April 10, 2009
01:30:48
Television writer and director Joss Whedon receives the third annual 2009 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism.
Take Me Out to the Ballgame!
Doris Kearns Goodwin
April 10, 2009
01:27:00
Ken Burns, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Peter Gammons come together to talk about baseball for the 15th year anniversary of Burns' Baseball documentary series.
Dustin Lance Black on “Milk”, Homophobia, and Hollywood
Dustin Lance Black
April 4, 2009
01:11:47
Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter of the film Milk, discusses his own personal life experiences and struggles and offers words of encouragement for other young people who have experienced discrimination. Mr.