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Naked Screenwriting
Twenty-two Oscar-Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing
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Naked Screenwriting is ideal for aspiring screenwriters, film students, and fans of Hollywood storytelling seeking direct insights from acclaimed professionals. It will also appeal to cinema historians interested in the personal experiences and creative processes behind some of the most celebrated scripts in film history.
This volume is a collection of interviews recorded in Lew Hunter's seminars with dozens of top screenwriters including Francis Ford Coppola, William Golden, Alexander Payne, Ernest Lehman, Horton Foote and Billy Wilde, shedding insights and wisdom into the art of screenwriting.
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Award-winning screenwriters reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology through interviews with world-renowned UCLA screenwriting professor Lew Hunter.
Naked Screenwriting includes interviews with Francis Ford Coppola, Billy Wilder, Oliver Stone, Bruce Joel Rubin, William Goldman, Julius Epstein, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor, Alfred Uhry, Tom Schulman, Ted Tally, Ruth Prawer Jabvola, Eric Roth, Jean-Claude Carriere, Frank Pierson, David Ward, Horton Foote, Ron Bass, Alan Ball, Callie Khouri, Robert Benton, Irving Ravetch, and Harriet Frank Junior.
Never before has a book covered Oscar-winning writers so thoroughly, shedding insight and wisdom into the art of screenwriting.
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Reviewers praise the book as a valuable inside look at the screenwriting process, highlighting its collection of interviews with 22 celebrated writers. It is noted for combining candid discussions with practical writing tips, such as Coppola's advice to carry a notebook for character ideas and Jhabvala's preference for writing by hand. The approachable style and breadth of talent represented make it both a treasure trove for Hollywood historians and an inspiring guide for aspiring writers.
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ISBN: 9781538137956
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 March 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 39.0mm
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 798g
Pages: 530
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Lew Hunter is an American screenwriter, author and educator and is chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television. Over half of the Oscar-winning scripts over the past twenty years have been written by students of Hunter. His former students and advocates include Adrienne Parks, Allison Anders, David Koepp, Mike Werb, Sacha Gervasi, Dan Pyne, David Titcher, Diane Saltzberg, Michael Colleary, Don Mancini, Kathy Stumpe, Darren Star, Alexander Payne, and Tom Shadyac. Steven Spielberg has called Hunter “the best screenwriting teacher going.” Hunter resides in Los Angeles, California.
Meg Gifford is a screenwriter and author. She won the Samuel Goldwyn award, the Sloan Science writing award, and every showcase while under Lew’s advisement. She recently wrote a play that was produced in Los Angeles and also writes novels. Gifford resides in Los Angeles, California.
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