Rewrite Man : : The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren / / Alison Macor.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Macor, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

In Rewrite Man, Alison Macor tells an engrossing story about the challenges faced by a top screenwriter at the crossroads of mixed and conflicting agendas in Hollywood. Whether writing love scenes for Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun, running lines with Michael Keaton on Beetlejuice, or crafting Nietzschean dialogue for Jack Nicholson on Batman, Warren Skaaren collaborated with many of New Hollywood’s most powerful stars, producers, and directors. By the time of his premature death in 1990, Skaaren was one of Hollywood’s highest-paid writers, although he rarely left Austin, where he lived and worked. Yet he had to battle for shared screenwriting credit on these films, and his struggles yield a new understanding of the secretive screen credit arbitration process—a process that has only become more intense, more litigious, and more public for screenwriters and their union, the Writers Guild of America, since Skaaren’s time. His story, told through a wealth of archival material, illuminates crucial issues of film authorship that have seldom been explored.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter One. From Hallingdal to Houston -- Chapter Two. Hollywood on the Colorado -- Chapter Three. Breaking Away -- Chapter Four. Highway to the Danger Zone -- Chapter Five. Hollywood Gothic -- Chapter Six. One Hit Aft er Another -- Chapter Seven. Batmania -- Chapter Eight. Th e Man Hollywood Trusts -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index