Books in the Screen and Cinema series

Focuses on the lives and works of the producers, this book is about people whose job is to dominate every facet of the film-making process, from conception, to script, and after. Through the interviews of Michael Douglas, it explains the history of some of the successful films and looks at the skill and experience to survive in this business.

The script of the television screenplay, "Natural Strangers" tells the story of a family reunion in a grand London hotel, where Raymond, his wife Esther and his son Daniel, are slowly drawn into their ancestor's family tree. Stephen, appointed "pedigree hunter" and archivist, unravels the past.

A major release from Initial films for Channel Four starring Stephen Rea and Richard Harris. Award-winning writer Billy Roche and director Gillies Mackinnon create a strange compelling world on the edge of society

Following the life and times of Prince John, the forgotten youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary, this dramatization reveals how, diagnosed as epileptic and suffering from learning difficulties he was shut away at the age of 12 to prevent the family from public embarrassment.

The acclaimed English Touring Theatre adaptation.

In this insightful text, Cherry Potter has used her extensive experience to provide a combination of analysis and inspiration. She uses sequences from films to present a series of master classes on the technique and meaning of classic film moments, and includes practical exercises and advice.

Sling Blade won the 1997 Academy Award for best original screenplay

A series of three-hour-long linked plays for BBC2 plus two shorter plays

Screenplay for the film version of Cormac McCarthy's hit novel The Road, adapted by award-winning playwright Joe Penhall.

Glorious 39 is the screenplay of the new blockbuster film by award-winning writer/director Stephen Poliakoff released in cinemas this autumn. In this tense psychological thriller set on the eve of WWII, a young woman stumbles across evidence of a sinister Nazi appeasement plot that will stop at nothing to achieve its aims.

Two major new screenplays by the inimitable, award-winning Stephen Poliakoff made for the BBC and HBO Films and due to be broadcast in autumn 2007 . A stellar cast led by Michael Gambon and Dame Maggie Smith feature in these exquisite, major new films that are linked by a grand house and memories of the past.

A companion to "Citizen Kane" - the film that was designed to shock - this text opens with an essay evaluating the making of the film. The original screenplay follows, illustrated with 40 stills and frame enlargements, together with notes on the difference between the script and the film.

From his New York basement, in the late 1950s, Tom Ripley dreams of la dolce vita in Italy. Dickie Greenleaf leads this life and Tom is commissioned by Dickie's father to go to Italy and bring back the errant playboy. But Tom does not want to return.

Thamesmead is a tough estate for Jamie and Ste to grow up on, with Jamie's mother's latest unlikely boyfriend and Ste's violent, alcoholic father. This screenplay explores the flowering of love between the two boys on their South London estate as they discover their homosexuality.

The screenplay of the classic British gangster film. Harold Shand has made it from Whitechapel to running his own "corporation", even forging links with the Mafia. Everything indeed is coming up roses, until the Easter weekend when enemies unknown embark on a series of lethal outrages against him.

This screenplay tackles the real-life story of London's notorious gangsters, the Kray twins. Brought up by their mother and aunts, the school-ground bullies grew more violent through national service and terms in prison before becoming the kings of 1960s gangland London.

"English Patient" is the winner of the 1992 Booker Prize.

This collection is made up of "The Granton Star Cause", "The Acid House" and "A Soft Touch". All three stories come from the badlands of the schemes of north Edinburgh and take us into a dark world of drugs, deviant sex and football hooliganism.

This screenplay is Miller's own adaption of his 20th century classic play about the Salem witch trials of 1692. The book includes twenty stills from the Twentieth Century Fox film starring Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder,

This is the text of the play by Phyllis Nagy, "The Talented Mr Ripley", written in the 1990s.