MOVIES: American Beauty Casablanca Dead Poet's Society Erin Brokovich Michael Clayton One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Pulp Fiction The Godfather, parts 1 and 2 The Shawshank Redemption To Kill a Mockingbird SCRIPTS: Chinatown The Crying Game Fargo The Godfather The King's Speech L.A. Confidential Network The Shawshank Redemption Unforgiven Witness FICTION BOOKS Shakespeare tragedies and historic plays World Mythologies Grimm's The Bell Jar Collected Stories of Flannery O'Connor The Crucible Lord of the Flies The Old Man and the Sea Of Mice and Men The Sound and the Fury NON-FICTION (for writers of drama) The Art of Dramatic Writing - Lagos Egri (re: plays - a classic) The Moral Premise - Dr. Stanley D. Williams (Lagos Egri updated for film) The Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell, on his life and work - edited by Phil Cousineau The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers 3rd Ed. - Christopher Vogler Myth and the Movies - Stuart Voytilla, Christopher Vogler Mindset: The New Psychology of Success - Dr. Carol Dweck The War of Art - Steven Pressfield Psychology for Screenwriters - Dr. William Indick RESOURCES www.jcf.com - Joseph Campbell Foundation www.thewritersjourney.com - Vogler

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