Hello,

I am thinking about trying to create a screenplay reader with commentary and exercises for use in screenwriting classrooms.  There are more and more classes in screenwriting offered in colleges and universities and, while there are plenty of handbooks and guides for the aspiring writer, I wasn't able to find a book to use in class that reprinted several screenplays with annotations, commentary, analysis, etc.  The only book I was able to find that did something like I am considering is Syd Field's Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay, but the four scripts he analyzed are somewhat old--at least to undergraduate students!

My question is who would you approach to obtain the rights to the screenplay?  Is anyone familiar with a book like this already?

Thank you for any information!

Laura Beadling

Youngstown State University