Screen-Writer's Handbook
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Book Overview
This is a step-by-step guide for the beginning screenwriter from the original idea through the completed-and marketed-motion picture script. It tells how to plan and organize the screenplay, how to develop characters, how to write dialog, how to prepare the script, and how and where to submit it for sale. Also included are interviews with well-known film professionals (Ernest Lehman, Robert Evans, Delbert Mann, Frank Rosenfelt, Michael Zimring, Gene Wilder); excerpts from actual scripts; a glossary of terminology; and a list with addresses of agents. The authors have had experience both in creative writing (films, short stories, and novels) and in business.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:006463454X
ISBN13:9780064634540
Release Date:June 1978
Publisher:Collins Reference
Length:160 Pages
Weight:0.32 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.2" x 8.1"
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A Practical Guide to Screenwriting
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
Nash and Oakey deliver a jewel in their 149-page screenwriting book. Here they present the elements they feel are important in screenplays. The fact that the authors do not expound on their opinions is a welcome aspect of their book. They mainly use parts of screenplays to make their points. The section containing a few interviews (Ernest Lehman, Robert Evans, Delbert Mann, Frank Rosenfelt, Michael Zimring, and Gene Wilder) is useful. Another section that contains excerpts from screenplays and treatmen
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