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Alexandria, VA and Burbank, CA - October 1, 2002 – Warner Bros. and Alexander Street Press, LLC today signed an agreement for Alexander Street to publish more than 80 major Warner Bros. film scripts. The scripts will appear as part of American Film Scripts. The database is the largest collection of film scripts ever published, the only electronic collection, and the only authoritative and legal online source for the scripts. Many of the 1,000 titles in American Film Scripts have never been published before.

The Warner Bros. scripts include many of the most memorable films of the twentieth century, including Casablanca, The Wizard of Oz, A Star is Born, Rebel Without a Cause, Singin’ in the Rain, A Night at the Opera, Woman of the Year, Ben Hur and North by Northwest. Every script will be painstakingly indexed, to allow searching by a combination of up to forty indexed search features, including bibliographic details about directors and writers, production details, scene details, character details, biographies, and more. The full text of every script will appear as well.

“We’re thrilled to be working with Warner Bros. on this important initiative,” said Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street. “At last these important works can become part of the academic landscape. Students, scholars and faculty will now be able to study, research and cite these materials.”

James Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian at Columbia University, one of the libraries that purchased American Film Scripts, said that the database will be “…an invaluable resource for teaching and research at North American colleges and universities. Film Studies has developed as an important area of scholarship, and films are increasingly used as tools for instruction in many fields of study.”

Tobin Nellhaus, a librarian at Yale University, said that American Film Scripts would let scholars “pay far greater attention to the literary value and quality of film scripts and to the work of the screenwriter.”

American Film Scripts will be available on the Web in January 2002.

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Alexander Street Press, L.L.C., is an academic publisher of electronic full-text databases in the humanities and social sciences. Founded in June 2000, the company publishes collections in history, literature, women’s studies, sociology, ethnic and diversity studies, popular culture, film studies, the arts, and other areas. Alexander Street Press is located in Alexandria, Virginia.

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