The New Screenwriter Looks at the New Screenwriter
Complementing his 1971 book, The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter ( LJ 8/72), teacher, teleplay writer, and producer Froug interviews 13 contemporary movie and TV writers plus two agents, including Dan O'Bannon ( Alien , 1979), Anna Hamilton Phelan ( Gorillas in the Mist , 1988), Jack Epps Jr. and Jim Cash ( Dick Tracy , 1990), and Diane Frolov (TV's Alien Nation and Northern Exposure ). Despite praise for several weak films and a discriminatory lapse labeling Top Gun (1986) "art," this is an enlightening and entertaining guide for prospective writers as well as the casual moviegoer. Director versus writer, movies versus TV, film school versus solo writing, scene arrangement--these issues and more are addressed. Recommended.-Kim Holston, American Inst. for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters, Malvern, Pa.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.