Screenwriting / / ed. by Andrew Horton, Julian Hoxter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Boon, Kevin Alexander,; Charney, Mark J.,; Davis, J. Madison,; Eaton, Mark,; Hoxter, Julian,; Lewis, Jon,
• HerausgeberIn: Horton, Andrew,; Hoxter, Julian,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Behind the Silver Screen Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 34 photographs

Screenwriters often joke that “no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay.” Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the “green light” from its financial backers and wins approval from its audience. This innovative volume gives readers a comprehensive portrait of the art and business of screenwriting, while showing how the role of the screenwriter has evolved over the years. Reaching back to the early days of Hollywood, when moonlighting novelists, playwrights, and journalists were first hired to write scenarios and photoplays, Screenwriting illuminates the profound ways that screenwriters have contributed to the films we love. This book explores the social, political, and economic implications of the changing craft of American screenwriting from the silent screen through the classical Hollywood years, the rise of independent cinema, and on to the contemporary global multi-media marketplace. From The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), and Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) to Chinatown (1974), American Beauty (1999), and Lost in Translation (2003), each project began as writers with pen and ink, typewriters, or computers captured the hopes and dreams, the nightmares and concerns of the periods in which they were writing. As the contributors take us behind the silver screen to chronicle the history of screenwriting, they spotlight a range of key screenplays that changed the game in Hollywood and beyond. With original essays from both distinguished film scholars and accomplished screenwriters, Screenwriting is sure to fascinate anyone with an interest in Hollywood, from movie buffs to industry professionals.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Behind the Silver Screen -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Machine to Screen: The Evolution toward Story, 1895–1928 -- 2. Classical Hollywood, 1928–1946 -- 3. Postwar Hollywood, 1947–1967 -- 4. The Auteur Renaissance, 1968–1980 -- 5. The New Hollywood, 1980–1999 -- 6. The Modern Entertainment Marketplace, 2000–Present -- Academy Awards for Screenwriting -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index