"I hope Patrick McGilligan keeps doing his invaluable "Backstory" series as long as there is cinema. No books more clearly elucidate the actual messy, infuriating, and wildly creative process of moviemaking. If you want to know the truth about how films are made today, "Backstory 5" is the place to find it."--Joseph McBride, author of "Searching for John Ford" and "Steven Spielberg: A Biography" "Pat McGilligan is the great American film historian, and the "Backstory" series is his epic, subversive account of how movies ...
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"I hope Patrick McGilligan keeps doing his invaluable "Backstory" series as long as there is cinema. No books more clearly elucidate the actual messy, infuriating, and wildly creative process of moviemaking. If you want to know the truth about how films are made today, "Backstory 5" is the place to find it."--Joseph McBride, author of "Searching for John Ford" and "Steven Spielberg: A Biography" "Pat McGilligan is the great American film historian, and the "Backstory" series is his epic, subversive account of how movies are really made. "Backstory 5," like the volumes before it, is entertaining, eye-opening and indispensable."--Lee Server, author of "Robert Mitchum: Baby I Don't Care" and "Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing"
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Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD PAPERBACK Standard-sized.
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Berkeley. 2009. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520260399. 252 pages. paperback. keywords: Hollywood Screenwriting Film Cinema. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Continuing his long-running series of interviews with Hollywood screenwriters, Pat McGilligan finished off cinema's first century with a volume on writers active in the 1990s. As with other volumes in the series, there are writers who began working before the age of the blockbuster (Albert Brooks, Nora Ephron), as well as writers who came of age with Spielberg summer flicks and Saturday Night Live (David Koepp, the late lamented John Hughes). As with previous volumes, these interviews emphasize the craft of writing, the process of collaboration, how Hollywood continues to change and evolve under new aconomic pressures, and (of course) plenty of gossip and war stories. Reflecting changes in the industry, there are more writer/directors in this volume (John Sayles, Barry Levinson), as well as more writers whose careers encompass theater, TV, and other genres (Tom Stoppard, Ephron, Eric Roth). inventory #38275.
