Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling. Fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they transformed their ideas into box-office blockbusters, how their words helped launch the careers of major stars, and how they earned
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Discover the secrets of Hollywood storytelling. Fifty screenwriters share the inside scoop about how they surmounted incredible odds to break into the business, how they transformed their ideas into box-office blockbusters, how their words helped launch the careers of major stars, and how they earned accolades and Academy Awards.
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Imprint:
New York : - It Books
Pages:
346
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9780061855924, 0061855928
Language:
English
Notes:
The adventure begins : the educator's perspective / Kris Young -- Breaking in : the contest administrator's perspective / Greg Beal -- The marketplace of ideas : the reader's perspective / Kat O'Brien -- The first yes : the agent's perspective / Richard Arlook -- What 's yours is theirs : the development executive's perspective / Charles Vignola -- Power players : the director's perspective / David Dobkin -- The rules of the game : the screenwriting guru's perspective / Richard Walter -- Slings and arrows : the Writer's Guild arbitrator's perspective / Jonathan Lemkin -- Taking control : the maverick's perspective / Duncan Tucker -- No is the path to yes : the therapist's perspective / Dennis Palumbo -- Going the distance : the veteran's perspective / Melville Shavelson.
Statement of responsibility:
edited by Peter Hanson and Paul Robert Herman ; with photographs by Peter Hanson
Characteristics:
xiv, 346 p. :,ill., ports. ;,21 cm.
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