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Adventures in the screen trade

by Goldman, William frey50
Published by : Warner books (New York) , 1983 Physical details: 418 p. ISBN:0-446-51273-7.
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800 - 899 812.54 Gol (Browse shelf) Available 53067

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part One: Hollywood realities -- 1. The powers that be -- Stars -- Studio executives -- Directors -- Producers -- 2. Elements -- L.A. -- Agents -- Bread -- Meetings -- Auteurs -- Beginnings -- Endings -- Speed -- Subtext -- Protecting the star -- Believing reality -- Enduring -- The ecology of Hollywood (or, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Gunga Din) -- Part Two: Adventures -- 3. Charly and Masquerade -- 4. Harper -- 5. The thing of it is ... -- 6. The Stepford Wives -- 7. The Great Waldo Pepper -- 8. All the president's men -- 9. Marathon man -- 10. The right stuff -- 11. Grand Hotel -- 12. A bridge too far -- Part Three: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid -- 13. Butch -- 14. "Camera crap" -- 15. The screenplay -- 16. The weaknesses of the screenplay -- 17. The strengths of the screenplay -- Part Four: Da Vince -- 18. The short story -- 19. Before we begin writing -- 20. The screenplay -- 21. Interviews: Tony Walton, Gordon Willis, Dede Allen, David Grusin, George Roy Hill -- 22. The relay race -- Final fade-in.