Author

Books by Bill Mesce Jr.

Bill Mesce Jr. is an American screenwriter, author, and film scholar based in New Jersey. He has taught screenwriting and film history at Seton Hall University and written extensively about the craft of screenwriting, including the book Storytelling by the Numbers. His work as a media historian focuses on the institutional and creative conditions that produced significant work in television and film. Inside the Rise of HBO draws on interviews, trade records, and primary sources from HBO's first three decades, making it a more rigorously sourced account than most popular media histories of the period.