Contains alphabetically arranged essays that provide information about the careers of sixty-five significant motion-picture writers; each with a list of principal works and a bibliography. Includes a cumulative index.
Presents a twelve-step program for developing story plots, with a variety of techniques and principles designed to help writers create believable characters, plot twists, and settings.
Explores television and movie screenwriting, providing a description of the writing process; in-depth analyses of the scripts of "On the Waterfront" and "The Breakfast Club;" an overview of episodic form; and advice on finding a job.
Screenwriter William Goldman explains what works best on the silver screen and what does not, and provides anecdotes from the sets of famous late-twentieth-century American films.
