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Lindsay Hansen Brown

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Subjects: Business and Economics, Cinema and Television Arts, Management, Marketing, Music, Theatre

Find books on film and television

Cinema and Experience by Miriam Bratu Hansen; Edward Dimendberg (Editor)
Call Number: PN1994 .H265 2012
ISBN: 0520265602
Publication Date: 2011-10-04
Directing by Michael Rabiger
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 129938661X
Publication Date: 2003
Inside the TV Writers' Room by Lawrence Meyers
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780815632412
Publication Date: 2010-06-02

WorldCat.org (OCLC)
WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services.WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and around the world. Includes books, music CDs, videos, digital content, and article citations, available in many languages.

Interlibrary Loan

Find screenplays and scripts

To search for a script or screenplay, use the library catalog and search by author of the writer, or name of the film. The University Library has a fraction of the scripts available through the CTVA department due to copyright and publishing restrictions.

Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press)
American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimilie images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online.

Scripts in print and online
All scripts available at the library, whether through a database or in print.
Script library (Manzanita)
Motion Picture Scripts Database
This database details the film script holdings of eight Los Angeles area collections: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the American Film Institute; the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; the Writers Guild of America, West; the Warner Bros. Archives at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts; and the California Institute of the Arts Library. Note that these scripts are not available electronically and that some libraries require appointments in advance.

Los Angeles Public Library e-resources

Getting a library card
If you live in LA County, you can get an e-card instantly. Anyone with a California address can go to an LAPL branch and get a physical card, which grants access to all e-resources including Kanopy. Other library cards you can get: LA County, Beverly Hills, Glendale, Pasadena, Burbank, etc.

You can watch up to 10 films a month on Kanopy (LAPL) through Los Angeles Public Library, including some films that may be required for your class.

They have a collection of more than 30,000 films including documentaries, independent films, and the Criterion Collection.