The official guide to the science behind the Battlestar Galactica universe Battlestar Galactica (BSG) has been called the best show on television, and as real as science fiction gets.

What is Don Draper's big secret? Will Pete and Peggy's love ever see the light of day? And how on earth do they manage to smoke and drink so much over the course of a working day? These questions and countless like them are debated in this collection, which features comments and discussions from the Guardian's Notes from the Break Room blog.

Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking, melding the exotic, the horrific and the comic, and manipulating expressionism and fantasy with the skill of a graphic novelist. This book considers Burton's career as an artist and filmmaker. It narrates the evolution of his creative practices, and presents works from his personal archive.

This is a practical, how-to guide to producing and presenting radio to a professional standard. Packed with practical advice, and on-the-job tips, it distills tried and tested knowledge from a specialist radio trainer.

In this book Robert Thirkell, the international consultant known as 'The TV Troubleshooter' and renowned television producer, sets out a professional toolkit for developing a compelling storyline in factual and reality programmes and films.

Collected for the first time in a single volume, the complete scripts of four of acclaimed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's most popular films. <br>Roger Ebert has unabashedly declared that "Charlie Kaufman is one of the few truly important writers to make screenplays his medium." Here is an extraordinary omnibus covering four of Kaufman's revered scripts. <br>"Being John Malkovich"<br>The Oscar(...(view full description)

The next best thing to having a top screenwriter in your living room, this book not only shows how to be a screenwriter but what it's like to actually be one. Includes the habits, writing environments, creative processes, daily passions and more.

A comprehensive, highly practical manual of screenwriting from the classic to the avant-garde. Whether you want to write short films, features, adaptations, genre films, ensemble films, blockbusters or art house movies, this book takes you all the way from choosing the brilliant idea to plotting, writing and rewriting.

Turns the spotlight on Australia and New Zealand. This title offers a look at the cinema produced in these two countries since the turn of the twentieth century.

Describes the filming and distribution of the cult masterpiece as a 'textbook example of How Things Should Never Be Done'. This title guides readers through the film's convoluted history, attempting along the way to explain its enduring fascination, and providing interviews with the key figures.