Stephen P Hoover

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Payback: The Essential Revenge Thriller Films

Revenge plots can make for some of the most memorable films out there. The Essential Revenge Films takes a look at what makes these films work and why they can be so memorable. The book also takes a look at some of the tropes you’ll find in these films and doesn’t shy away from the fact that some of...

Cheap Scares: The Essential Found Footage Horror Films

Found footage has divided horror fans and critics. Some find it to be a refreshing departure from the predicable slashers and torture horror films that had dominated the market for so long. Others found them to be so at one time, but feel that the market is flooded with these films, and that quality...

Trapped: The Essential Contained Thrillers

REVISED SECOND EDITION. Take the tension, desperation and anxiety characteristic of a thriller film and confine the action to a small space and you have something truly remarkable: the contained thriller. Concentrated, pressurized, however you want to describe them, they have an ability to ratchet u...

The Joke's On You: How to Write Comedy

THE #1 SELLING BOOK ON COMEDY WRITING ON AMAZONComprehensive guide for comedy writing.A history of comedy and theories about what makes us laughCovers comedy writing in all forms --sketches, jokes, sitcoms, and feature films.Ideal guide and textbook. Latest edition has an additional dozen Appendix p...

Italian Westerns: The Essential Films

Italian westerns, also known as spaghetti westerns, include some of the best and most underrated westerns of all. They took the model of the Hollywood western and turned it on its head, offering killer antiheroes instead of white-hat good guys. They took the image of the American frontier of the 180...

Conversations with the Comedy Masters

Ever wish you could bend the ear of a successful comedy writer? That's exactly what Stephen Hoover did in Conversations with the Comedy Masters. This is an early release and includes interviews with Dave Sheffield and Steve Kerper. More interviews will be added in the future and the price will incre...

THE COMEDYPHILES

A humorous collection. Short pieces, sketches, cartoons, and other original material. Illustrations and a few dozen cartoons by artist Jonathan Brown.

Killer Movies: The Essential Thrillers

When a film gives you a real chill because you know that what’s happening on screen could well happen in real life, you’re watching a thriller. Thriller films aren’t made safe by the trappings of fantasy and horror and, oftentimes, their protagonists are as dark as their villains. From early films s...