The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!
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AlbakiReads Editorial A Screenwriting Manual with a Hollywood Insider’s Scorecard
A Screenwriting Manual with a Hollywood Insider’s Scorecard
Joe Eszterhas combines screenwriting guidance with a wide-ranging account of Hollywood’s business culture. The book moves from the practical concerns of developing a script and securing screen credit to negotiation tactics, industry personalities, and anecdotes drawn from the author’s experience. Its structure appears deliberately expansive: advice for the page sits alongside quoted observations, stories, and Eszterhas’s strongly held judgments about figures in the film world. That blend makes the book as much a portrait of the industry’s rivalries, status games, and dealmaking as a guide to the craft of writing for the screen.
Good fit for readers who enjoy
- Aspiring screenwriters seeking craft and business-oriented guidance
- Film-industry readers interested in Hollywood personalities and behind-the-scenes anecdotes
- Readers who enjoy opinionated accounts of movie-business culture
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Screenwriting craftHollywood business practicesNegotiation and screen creditFilm-industry personalitiesPower and rivalry
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Book Overview In The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, bestselling author and legendary bad-boy screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tells everything he knows about th...
In The Devil's Guide to Hollywood, bestselling author and legendary bad-boy screenwriter Joe Eszterhas tells everything he knows about the industry, its players and screenwriting itself--from the first blank sheet of paper in the Olivetti to the size of the credit on the one-sheet.
"There's just one hunk of funny anecdote after another, quotes from everyone who ever mattered in the movie biz, and the thing is jam-packed with screenwriterly advice. Plus it's hilariously funny, ribald, sexy and brilliant."--Liz Smith
Often practical and always entertaining, The Devil's Guide to Hollywood distills everything one of Hollywood's most accomplished screenwriters knows about the business, from writing advice to negotiation tricks, from the wisdom of past players to the feuds of current ones. Eszterhas has selected his personal pantheon of the most loved and loathed players in the business and treats the reader to a treasure trove of stories, quotes and wisdom from those luminaries, who include William Goldman (loathes) and Zsa Zsa Gabor (loves).
The Devil's Guide to Hollywood could only have been written by someone who loves the business as much as Eszterhas does--but who also has its number.
"Eszterhas delivers a dishy, catty mix of reminiscences and Hollywood trivia...his forte is skewering sycophants and phonies in this opinionated showcase of the underside of Hollywood life."--Publishers Weekly
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 416 | Language: English | Publisher: ST MARTINS PR 3PL | ISBN: 0312373848
FormatPaperback
Pages416
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0312373848
EAN9780312373849
PublisherST MARTINS PR 3PL
Publication Date2007-09-18
EditionReprint
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight1.32 Pounds
Length9.0 Inches
Width6.0 Inches
Height0.9 Inches
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