Backstory 5: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1990s

By: Patrick McGilligan

Book Overview

Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters in Backstory 5, focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writers--Albert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carri re, Nora Ephron, Ronald Harwood, John Hughes, David Koepp, Richard LaGravenese, Barry Levinson, Eric Roth, John Sayles, Tom Stoppard, Barbara Turner, and Rudy Wurlitzer--are not confined to the 1990s, but their engrossing, detailed, and richly personal stories create, in McGilligan's words, "a snapshot of a profession in motion." Emphasizing the craft of writing and the process of collaboration, this new volume looks at how Hollywood is changing to meet new economic and creative challenges. Backstory 5 explores how these writers come up with their ideas, how they go about adapting a stage play or work of fiction, how they organize and structure their work, and much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520260392
• ISBN13: 9780520260399
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"