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Screenwriters’ Masterclass
- Author: Kevin Conroy Scott
- Category: Non-fiction
- Publisher: Faber(UK)
- Pub date: 17 February 2005
- Length: 416 pages
About Screenwriters’ Masterclass
‘His selection of 21 scribes is smartly chosen, as are his questions about each one’s creative process, start in the business and the history of their best-known project’
— TOTAL FILM
‘Taps into the same market as Syd Field, but will prove infinitely more useful’
— THE SCOTSMAN
‘Talking through their greatest scripts, the cream of the “prestige indies” are brutal, frank and funny about their experiences of the Hollywood machine… for wannabe scriptwriter – or just plain enthusiasts – this is an interesting, illuminating and diverse series of chats with some of the best typewriter tappers in the biz’
— HOTDOG
Part of the prestigious Faber film list and compiled from 19 in-depth interviews, SCREENWRITERS’ MASTERCLASS is an insider’s account of the beguiling art of screenwriting. Here the best screenwriters in the world each talk about their craft through the prism of one film, going into great detail about how they write and how they created their most famous work.
Films discussed include The Silence of the Lambs, Amores Perros, Three Kings, Out of Sight, Under the Sand, Election, Code Unknown, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Sweet Sixteen, Rushmore, Spider and Requiem for a Dream.
About the Author
Kevin Conroy Scott is a literary agent and film journalist. He has written for LA Weekly, Variety, Sight & Sound, Zembla and Written By magazine.