Screenwriting: Home
A guide to resources pertaining to writing for the screen
Why Research?
Why do you need to be concerned with research when writing a screenplay? Because good screenplays and good research go hand in hand. Consider the article from the American Spectator History Channel Gets Vikings Precisely Wrong
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Screenwriting calls it Surfing In Shallow Water, which is a lack of proper research before starting a screenplay resulting in "shallow scenes".
Getting Started - Reference Works
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowAn online reference service made up of full-text books from the world's best publishers
Individual titles are listed in the catalog - Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new windowMajor art encyclopedias and dictionaries with information about artists and art work.
Includes several thousand images. - Oxford Music Online This link opens in a new windowIncludes the mammoth New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and other important Oxford music encyclopedias.
Subject Guide
Noelle Keller, MLS
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