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Backstory : interviews with screenwriters of Hollywood's golden age / edited and with an introduction by Pat McGilligan.
Van Pelt Library PN1998.A2 B24 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles--Interviews.
- Screenwriters.
- Motion picture industry--California--Los Angeles.
- Motion picture industry.
- Interviews.
- California--Los Angeles.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Biography.
- Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.).
- Motion picture plays--Technique.
- Motion picture plays.
- Motion picture authorship.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 382 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley ; Los Angeles : University of California Press, [1986]
- Summary:
- 'Backstory' is a screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this volume, a delightfully acute and articulate band of screenwriters tells their side of what happened, on and off the set, before the cameras rolled. Their reminiscences are both entertaining and instructive for anyone who cares about the art of film--past or present.
- Contents:
- Charles Bennett: first-class constructionist / interview by Pat McGilligan
- W. R. Burnett: the outsider / interview by Ken Mate and Pat McGilligan
- Niven Busch: a doer of things / interview by David Thomson
- James M. Cain: tough guy / interview by Peter Brunette and Gerald Peary
- Lenore Coffee: easy smiler, easy weeper / interview by Pat McGilligan
- Philip Dunne: fine cabinetmaker / interview by Tina Daniell
- Julius J. Epstein: a king of comedy / interview by Pat McGilligan
- Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett: perfectionists / interview by Mark Rowland
- Norman Krasna: the Woolworth's touch / interview by Pat McGilligan
- John Lee Mahin: team player / interview by Todd McCarthy and Joseph McBride
- Richard Maibaum: a pretense of seriousness / interview by Pat McGilligan
- Casey Robinson: master adaptor / interview by Joel Greenberg
- Allan Scott: a nice life / interview by Pat McGilligan
- Donald Ogden Stewart: politically conscious / interview by Allen Eyles and John Gillett.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-364) and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0520056663
- 0520056892
- OCLC:
- 12974850
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