Backstory 4

Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1970s and 1980s

By: Patrick McGilligan (Editor)

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Paperback | 24 January 2006 | Edition Number 1

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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.

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"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"

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Reference, Dictionaries & Guides Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides Screenwriting Techniques Arts & Entertainment Film, TV & Radio Specific Films Film Scripts & Screenplays Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature Literary Studies of Plays & Playwrights

General Literary Studies Literary Studies from 1900 to Current Film Theory & Criticism Society & Culture Dance & Other Performing Arts Television

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The New Traditionalist	p. 11
Manic Energy	p. 37
Jumping Around	p. 83
Last Man Standing	p. 102
Out of India	p. 131
A Humanist in Hollywood	p. 160
The Hot Kid	p. 195
A Map of the Heart	p. 222
Late Bloomer	p. 262
The Good Fights	p. 274
Renaissance Man	p. 317
Pursuit and Destination	p. 344
The Worst Happens	p. 367
Bibliographic Notes	p. 389
About the Contributors	p. 397
General Index	p. 399
Index of Films, Plays, and Books	p. 415
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