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Overview"Continuing Patrick McGilligan's highly acclaimed series on Hollywood screenwriters, these engrossing, informative, provocative interviews give wonderfully detailed and personal stories from veteran screenwriters of the seventies and eighties, focusing on their craft, their lives, and their profession. ""Backstory 4"" is a riveting insider's look at how movies get made; a rich perspective on many of the great movies, directors, and actors of the seventies and eighties; and an articulate, forthright commentary on the art and the business of screenwriting. The screenwriters interviewed for this volume include well-known Oscar winners as well as cult filmmakers, important writers who were also distinguished directors, and key practitioners of every commercial genre. These writers have worked with Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Peter Bogdanovich, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Clint Eastwood, and other film giants of the so-called New Hollywood. The stories of their collaborations - some divine, some disastrous - provide some of the most fascinating material in this volume. They also discuss topics, including how they got started writing screenplays, their working routines, their professional relationships, their influences, and the work of other major writers and directors. ""Backstory 4"" features interviews with Robert Benton, Larry Cohen, Blake Edwards, Walter Hill, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Lawrence Kasdan, Elmore Leonard, Paul Mazursky, Nancy Meyers, John Milius, Frederic Raphael, Alvin Sargent, and Donald E. Westlake." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Patrick McGilligan , Patrick McGilliganPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.508kg ISBN: 9780520214590ISBN 10: 0520214595 Pages: 434 Publication Date: 24 January 2006 Audience: Adult education , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Robert Benton: The New Traditionalist Interview by Christian Keathley Larry Cohen: Manic Energy Interview by Patrick McGilligan Blake Edwards: Jumping Around Interview by Bill Krohn Walter Hill: Last Man Standing Interview by Patrick McGilligan Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: Out of India Interview by Vincent LoBrutto Lawrence Kasdan: A Humanist in Hollywood Interview by Graham Fuller Elmore Leonard: The Hot Kid Interview by Patrick McGilligan Paul Mazursky: A Map of the Heart Interview by Nat Segaloff Nancy Meyers: Late Bloomer Interview by Fred Topel John Milius: The Good Fights Interview by Nat Segaloff Frederic Raphael: Renaissance Man Interview by John Baxter Alvin Sargent: Pursuit and Destination Interview by Patrick McGilligan Donald E. Westlake: The Worst That Could Happen Interview by Patrick McGilligan Bibliographic Notes About the Contributors General Index Index of Films, Plays, and BooksReviews"""Backstory 4 lives up to the high standards of the previous volumes, providing us with intimate, funny, insightful conversations with the highly articulate and film-literate screenwriters and writer-directors of many of the most memorable American films from the 1970s and 1980s, the era of the movie brats, the cult film, and the blockbuster. Each interview is a revelation. Both the interviewers and the subjects are great company. Editor Patrick McGilligan has done it again."" - Matthew Bernstein, editor of Controlling Hollywood""" Backstory 4 lives up to the high standards of the previous volumes, providing us with intimate, funny, insightful conversations with the highly articulate and film-literate screenwriters and writer-directors of many of the most memorable American films from the 1970s and 1980s, the era of the movie brats, the cult film, and the blockbuster. Each interview is a revelation. Both the interviewers and the subjects are great company. Editor Patrick McGilligan has done it again. - Matthew Bernstein, editor of Controlling Hollywood Author InformationPatrick McGilligan, who teaches film at Marquette University, edited the three previous Backstory volumes, all published by the University of California Press. He is author of the Edgar-nominated Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light (2003), Clint: The Life and Legend (2002), and many other books about film, including George Cukor: A Double Life (1991) and Fritz Lang: The Nature of the Beast (1997), both New York Times Notable Books. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |