Award winning screenwriters reveal their Hollywood secrets in crafting brilliant stories and methodology through interviews with world renowned UCLA screenwriting professor Lew Hunter Naked Screenwriting includes interviews with Francis Ford Coppola Billy Wilder Oliver Stone Bruce Joel Rubin William Goldman Julius Epstein Alexander Payne Jim Taylor Alfred Uhry Tom Schulman Ted Tally Ruth Prawer Jabvola Eric Roth Jean Claude Carriere Frank Pierson David Ward Horton Foote Ron Bass Alan Ball Callie Khouri Robert Benton Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Junior Never before has a book covered Oscar winning writers so thoroughly shedding insight and wisdom into the art of screenwriting Naked Screenwriting Twenty two Oscar Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing
Subtitle Twenty two Oscar Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to WritingI received an advance reader copy of this book from the publisher through Net Galley in exchange for an honest review. Lew Hunter is a professor of screenwriting at UCLA Naked Screenwriting is a collection of 22 interview sessions conducted by Hunter mostly in the presence of members of one of his graduate screenwriting courses. It took about two months between when I first started reading this book with a couple of extended breaks where I read other ARCs to keep from falling behind on my other reading This book was so long and so repetitive in nature that I just wasn t able to read through it in one go. The main takeaway that I got from reading this book is that there is no secret correct creative process for writing a screenplay each screenwriter developed a method that worked for them I think the most helpful thing I read in it and I don t remember which one of them said it but one of them said that when he is questioned about the theme of any of his works he simply responds No man is an island That works for me. I gave Naked Screenwriting three stars on Goodreads Besides being in serious need of being cut down to a manageable size some of the interviews took place in the 1990s and had little to do with the current state of the movie making business 9781538137956 I received and voluntarily read an e ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review All thoughts and opinions are my own I ve read tons of screenwriting books but I m always on the lookout for the chance to read some Lew Hunter has been known for his great advice for decades some the chance to read this book was awesome. I do wish there had been even screenwriters chosen to be added to this book maybe some of the most recent Oscar Emmy Golden Globe winners or even some of the Marvel writers as they have had some of the most impact on the industry in recent years: Overall this book does a great job of taking some of the most famous screenwriting advice and condensing it all down into one book 9781538137956
| Naked Screenwriting: Twenty-two Oscar-Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing By Lew Hunter |
| 153813795X |
| 9781538137956 |
| 530 |
| Paperback |