Tales from the script
Subtitle: 50 Hollywood screenwriters share their stories
By: edited by Peter Hanson and Paul Robert Herman ; with photographs by Peter Hanson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Itbooks
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780061855924
Subjects: Interviews; Screenwriters; Motion picture authorship
Other titles: 50 Hollywood screenwriters share their stories; Fifty Hollywood screenwriters share their stories
Description: 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.
Table of contents: title: The adventure begins : the educator's perspective  -- Kris Young; title: Breaking in : the contest administrator's perspective  -- Greg Beal; title: The marketplace of ideas : the reader's perspective  -- Kat O'Brien; title: The first yes : the agent's perspective  -- Richard Arlook; title: What 's yours is theirs : the development executive's perspective ; title: r Charles Vignola -- -- Power players : the director's perspective / -- David Dobkin; title: The rules of the game : the screenwriting guru's perspective  -- Richard Walter; title: Slings and arrows : the Writer's Guild arbitrator's perspective  -- Jonathan Lemkin; title: Taking control : the maverick's perspective  -- Duncan Tucker; title: No is the path to yes : the therapist's perspective  -- Dennis Palumbo; title: Going the distance : the veteran's perspective -- Melville Shavelson.