Backstory 2: Interviews With Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2009
Description:
"Backstory" is the screenwriter's term for what happens in a plot before the screen story begins. In this companion volume to McGilligan's widely praised Backstory: Interviews with Screenwriters of Hollywood's Golden Age, fourteen studio scribes active in later decades reminisce about their fifty-plus years of creating and scripting classic movies. Richard Brooks, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Garson Kanin, Arthur Laurents, Ben Maddow, Stewart Stern, Daniel Taradash, and Philip Yordan are among the fascinating and important figures included.
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In this lively collection of interviews they contribute useful writing tips, radical correctives to screen history and industry folklore, and just plain colorful gossip. As a whole, the interviews provide a compelling biographical close-up of an entire generation of men and women whose talent, vision, and character were critical to the institution we know as "Hollywood".
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