This book explores the industrial and personal challenges faced by filmmakers in bringing the current worldwide craze for documentary films and series to screens small and large. Utilizing a number of case studies drawn from in-depth interviews with acclaimed documentary directors, producers, and screenwriters from around the world, Phoebe Hart ......
Twenty-two Oscar-Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing
This volume is a collection of interviews recorded in Lew Hunter's seminars with dozens of top screenwriters including Francis Ford Coppola, William Golden, Alexander Payne, Ernest Lehman, Horton Foote and Billy Wilde, shedding insights and wisdom into the art of screenwriting.
This is a collection of Goldman''s powerful and intelligent work. Five Screenplays features: All the President''s Men, Harper, The Great Waldo Pepper, Magic, and Maverick.'
This collection includes the complete screenplays of "The Princess Bride", "Misery", "The Marathon Man" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" along with introductory essays to each screenplay by William Goldman.
This book explores the dramatic identity and design of the American political thriller, tracking the close correlation between the evolution of the genre and the history of the United States from the Cuban Missile Crisis to the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the ensuing War on Terror.
This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater's first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays' social, economic, and political circumstances; and a critical recounting of the theater's history from 1975 through 2020. ......
The book highlights how creative entrepreneurs saved the Hollywood studios in the 1970's by making the calculated blockbuster, consisting of key replicable markers of success, Hollywood's preeminent business model. Scholars of film studies, screenwriting, and popular culture will find this book of particular interest.
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1
Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside's intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as ......
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Pl
Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia's Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater's first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays' social, economic, and ......
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 2: The Intercultural Plays, 1
Collaborative plays with diverse ensembles across the country address pressing issues of our times The plays in Volume 2 come from Roadside's intercultural and issue-specific theater work, including long-term collaborations with the African American Junebug Productions in New Orleans and the Puerto Rican Pregones Theater in the South Bronx, as ......
Selected Plays of Roadside Theater, Volume 1: The Appalachian History Pl
Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia's Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater's first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays' social, economic, and ......