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Joseph , Dougherty

A Writer Directs

Engels | Paperback | 9781959748434 | 2026 | 190 Pagina's

"Dougherty is a humanist who argues that each of us has to look, listen, choose, and commit. His work is as encouraging as it is enlightening." - Douglas Heil, Prime-Time Authorship Directing will make you a better writer "Directing is where you cross from paper to people. Where the things you imagined have to be articulated to others in the hope of making them real." Joseph Dougherty, Emmy winner for his work on the groundbreaking series thirtysomething, brings years of experience "on set" to an exploration of that place where writing and directing meet, interact, and inspire. Where the practical and intangible combine to create something unexpected and unique. Dougherty follows up his hit book on writing, A Screenwriter's Companion, with a look at what happens when the script is done. A Writer Directs contains Dougherty's personal thoughts on the craft drawn from a directing career that stretches from thirtysomething to Pretty Little Liars. A Writer Directs continues the intimate creative conversation Dougherty started in A Screenwriter's Companion. Opinionated, entertaining, thought-provoking, these are books for serious film students and just plain movie lovers. Besides using anecdotes from his professional career, Dougherty uses examples from such films as Narrow Margin, Harry and Tonto, Psycho, Sullivan's Travels, Columbo, The Verdict, and more. If you've been muttering, "But what I really want to do is direct," then set the script aside for a moment and open this book.

€ 18,55

Joseph , Dougherty

Rod Serling at 100

Engels | Paperback | 9781949024746 | 2026 | 214 Pagina's

Celebrate the writer of The Twilight Zone on Serling's 100th birthday. The year 2024 marks the centenary of Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone and Night Gallery. Emmy-winning writer Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars) picked this special anniversary to reflect on Serling and his contributions to television drama. An appreciation and exploration of the six-time Emmy-winning writer's catalogue, Rod Serling at 100: One Writer's Acknowledgment looks at some of Serling's best known work and also some of his least acknowledged, inviting a new perspective on a master storyteller.In the process, Dougherty takes a personal look at the time he spent in The Twilight Zone that led to his own award-winning writing career.Joseph Dougherty is an Emmy and Humanitas Prize winner for his work on the groundbreaking series thirtysomething, he has written several movies for HBO including the remake of Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman directed by Christopher Guest, and the Emmy-winning noir/occult mashup Cast a Deadly Spell, which was nominated for a Ray Bradbury Award by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. His play Chester Bailey premiered at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where it was selected Outstanding World Premiere Play and Outstanding Production of a Play by the TBA Awards. It was subsequently produced at the Contemporary American Theater Festival at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where it was a New York Times Critics' Pick. Chester Bailey had its New York premiere at The Irish Repertory Theatre. He earned Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for his play Digby, produced by Manhattan Theatre Club, and wrote the libretto for the Tony-winning musical version of My Favorite Year, presented at Lincoln Center.

€ 18,00

Joseph , Dougherty

The First Cylinder

Engels | Paperback | 9781949024548 | 2025 | 156 Pagina's

Emmy-winning writer/producer Joseph Dougherty (thirtysomething, Pretty Little Liars) showcases his vivid imagination and wicked sense of satire in this brilliant retelling of H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds from the perspective of the Martian invaders“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own . . . ” And so H. G. Wells opened his thrilling The War of the Worlds in 1897. Since then millions of readers have shivered and shrieked at his depiction of a Martian invasion of Earth. The tale has become part of our cultural memory, but Wells didn’t tell the whole story. He never gave us the Martian side of the conflict. Now, Joseph Dougherty, the Emmy-winning writer, reports on the invasion of Earth from an up-close-and-personal Martian point of view. Dougherty views Wells’s epic battles from an all new, painfully modern perspective. Our narrator is Vvv, a reluctant conscript on board The First Cylinder to reach Earth in the invasion. Vvv is the Martian incarnation of all reluctant warriors, from Yossarian in Catch-22 to Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five. War is hell . . . for aliens and humans alike. Sardonic and heartrending, tragic and comic, The First Cylinder is a breakout science fiction novel in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury.

€ 12,20

Joseph , Dougherty

The Story Salon Big Book of Stories

Engels | Paperback | 9780595396894 | 2006 | 172 Pagina's

Praise for Story Salon"Gemstones of narrative. Something new, funny, astonishing."-Los Angeles Daily News"Tales tall, tragic, and tantalizing." -Sunset Magazine"Stories from all walks and talks of life. Tales of yore and ones that make you scream for more-those that will delight with insight while moving an audience from laughter to tears." -Studio City SunStory Salon is Los Angeles's longest running storytelling venue. What began as an alternative to stand-up clubs and self-conscious performance spaces has been challenging performers and audiences for more than a decade. Created in a North Hollywood coffee house Story Salon now reaches the globe through Podcasting, publishing, and recordings. The rules of the Story Salon haven't changed since it started: Five to seven minutes of original material performed by the author. The result is a unique blend of observation, memoir and comment that makes the Salon one of the most eclectic entertainment experiences available. More than a dozen solo theater works have been developed at Story Salon, as well as a CD of stories, and several books. "Live storytelling is a unique art form," says Story Salon founder, writer/actor/comedian Beverly Mickins. "Words spoken aloud paint pictures capable of evoking laughter and tears, the whole range of emotion. People have been telling each other stories since the first campfires, talking about the whole mix of things, important and trivial, that go into making life. Storytelling is one of the ways we figure out how to be human." Collected here for the first time in Big Book of Stories are more than forty original pieces first performed by their authors at Story Salon. It's an omnibus of memories, rants, affirmations, and shaggy-dog stories that once opened is impossible to shut. Learn more at www.storysalon.com

€ 14,60