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I hear America typing: A survey of scriptwriting manuals Richard A. Blum. Television Writing: From Concept to Contract. New York: Hastings House, 1980. viii + 184 pp. $8.95, paper. Robert Edmonds. Scriptwriting for the Audio–Visual Media. New York: Teachers College Press, 1978.185 pp. $10.95, paper. Syd Field. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. New York: Dell, 1979. xii + 212 pp. $4.95, paper. Rolando Giustini. The Filmscript: A Writer's Guide. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, 1980. xii + 243 pp. $6.95, paper. Robert Lee and Robert Misiorowski. Script Models: A Handbook for the Media Writer. New York: Hastings House, 1978.96 pp. $4.50, paper. Martin Maloney and Paul Max Rubenstein. Writing for the Media. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice‐Hall, 1980. x + 293 pp. $14.95, cloth. Constance Nash and Virginia Oakey. The Screenwriter's Handbook: What to Write, How to Write It, Where to Sell It. New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1978. x + 149 pp. $3.95, paper. Wells Root. Writing the Script: A Practical Guide for Films and Television. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. xvi + 210 pp. $5.95, paper. The avoidance of criticism Brian Henderson. A Critique of Film Theory. New York: E. P. Dut‐ton, 1980. 233 pp. $8.95. The self‐realized critic Beverle Houston and Marsha Kinder. Self and Cinema: A Trans‐formalist Perspective. Pleasantville, New York: Redgrave, 1980. 461 pp. $12.70. Lubitsch reconsidered Leland A. Poague. The Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch. South Brunswick and New York: A. S. Barnes, 1978. Robert Carringer and Barry Sabath. Ernst Lubitsch: A Research and Reference Guide. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978. The cinema must answer to Hungarians Georges Sadoul. Panorama du cinéma hongrois. Paris: Les Éditeurs francais réunis, 1952. 62 pp., illustrated. István Nemeskürty. Word and Image: History of the Hungarian Cinema. Budapest: Corvina Press, 1974. 252 pp., illustrated. Graham Petrie. History Must Answer to Man: The Contemporary Hungarian Cinema. Budapest: Corvina Press, 1978. 284 pp., illustrated. Yvette Biró. Miklós Jancsó. Preface by Andrzej Wajda. Paris: Editions Albatros, 1977. 142 pp., illustrated. The British factual film of the 1930s Rachel Low. History of the British Film 7929‐39; Documentary and Educational Films of the 1930s. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1979. 244 pp. Rachel Low. History of the British Film 1929–39: Films of Comment and Persuasion of the 1930s. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1979. 256 pp. Crime marches on Carlos Clarens. Crime Movies: An Illustrated History. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1980. 351 pp. $16.95. World War II films: Three books in review Roger Manvell. Films and the Second World War. New York: Dell Publishing Company, 1974. 388 pp. Lawrence H. Suid. Guts & Glory: Great American War Movies. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison‐Wesley Publishing Company, 1978. 357 pp. Colin Shindler. Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society 1939–1952. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979. 152 pp.