num_pages: 336
description: Understanding how and why screenplays work is one of the surest paths to writing your own successful script. Few people have known this better than Syd Field, who dissected thousands of films and screenplays in order to discern the vital elements that all great screenplays share. His books, lectures, workshops, and classes brought clarity and confidence to a great many accomplished screenwriters, a quartet of whom are featured in this one  Informative and utterly engrossing,  Four Screenplays  belongs in every writer's library, next to Field's highly acclaimed companion   The Foundations of Screenwriting, The Screenwriter's Workbook, The Screenwriter's Problem Solver  and  Selling a Screenplay.
language: English
title: Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay: Thelma & Louise, Terminator 2, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances with Wolves
titlecomplete: Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay: Thelma & Louise, Terminator 2, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances with Wolves
genres: Film, Nonfiction, Writing
ratings_count: 393
publisher: Delta