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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Behind the Silver Screen Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.) :; 34 photographs
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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