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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

by Peter Biskind

Based on hundreds of interviews with directors such as Coppola, Scorsese, Hopper and Spielberg, as well as producers, stars, studio executives, writers, spouses, ex-spouses, and girlfriends, this is the story of the crazy world that the directors ruled.

Sex and the City

by Candace Bushnell

A columnist's examination of the celebrity affairs and sexual liaisons indulged in by the members of high society is seen through the experiences of a troubled writer, a mega-businessman, a famous underwear model, and others. Reprint. PW. K. "

Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player

by Robert Rodriguez

In Rebel Without a Crew, screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez discloses all the unique strategies and original techniques he used to make his remarkable debut film, El Mariachi, on a shoestring budget. This is both one man's remarkable story and an essential guide for anyone who has a celluloid story to tell and the dreams and determination to see it through.

Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting

Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting

by William Goldman

As befits more than twenty years in Hollywood, Oscar-winning screenwriter William Goldman's sparkling memoir is as entertaining as many of the films he has helped to create. From the writer of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men and Marathon Man, Adventures in the Screen Trade is an intimate view of movie-making, of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman and Hoffman, and of the... (more)

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants : The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror

Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants : The Looting of the News in a Time of Terror

by James Wolcott

They are coddled and well-groomed. They chase after the latest scandal and then run around in crazy circles, using the TV studio as their show ring and wee-wee pad. There is no controversy they can't trivialize, no issue they can't vulgarize. They obey their political masters and betray the trust of the audience with every bark. They're the attack poodles-a new breed of celebrity pundit. Wisecracking and... (more)

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography

by Chuck Barris

Suspense, excess, danger, and exuberant fun come together in Chuck Barris's unlikely autobiography- the tale of a wildly amboyant '70s television producer nationally known as the host of The Gong Show. What most people don't know is that Barris also spent close to two decades as a decorated covert assassin for the CIA, claiming to have killed over thirty people. Honestly. Barris, who achieved tremendous success as... (more)

The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)

by Nathanael West

Tod Hackett is a brilliant young artist - and a man in danger of losing his heart. Brought to an LA studio as a set-designer, he is soon caught up in a fantasy world where the cult of celebrity rules. But when he becomes besotted by the beautiful Faye, an aspiring actress and occasional call-girl, his dream rapidly becomes a nightmare. For, with little in the way of looks and no money to buy her time, Tod's... (more)

My "Star Trek" Memories

by Chris Kreski, William Shatner

Encompassing plot summaries of all seventy-nine TV episodes and the six hit films, ""Captain Kirk"" shares his reminiscences about the making of Star Trek, a history of the show as a cultural phenomenon, and behind-the-scenes antics. 300,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Writing Screenplays That Sell: The Complete, Step-By-Step Guide for Writing and Selling to

Writing Screenplays That Sell: The Complete, Step-By-Step Guide for Writing and Selling to

by Michael Hauge

The up-to-date, acclaimed guide to writing and selling screenplays to today's film and TV markets. This is the new screenwriter's bible.

Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words

Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words

by Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges was the great writer and director of Hollywood screwball comedies of the thirties and forties. Sullivan's Travels, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, and The Great McGinty have become film classics, demonstrating brilliant, inventive writing and directing. At the height of his career, Sturges had not only won an Academy Award but was also one of the most highly paid executives in the country. The only... (more)

Five Screenplays by Preston Sturges

by Preston Sturges

Here are five comic masterpieces by Preston Struges, who has been called "Hollywood's greatest writer-director, with emphasis on the former." The scripts are drawn from the great period between 1939 and 1944, which Andrew Sarris called "one of the most brilliant and most bizarre bursts of creation in the history of cinema." They are astonishingly readable and deliciously funny. Brian Henderson's introduction... (more)

Four More Screenplays by Preston Sturges

by Preston Sturges

Includes The Palm Beach Story , Triumph over Pain/The Great Moment , The Miracle at Morgan's Creek , and Unfaithfully Yours . Humorous, sophisticated, and superbly crafted, the cinema of Preston Sturges maintains an enduring presence in the small canon of films that enjoy critical acclaim, scholarly attention, and popular admiration. Following the enthusiastic reception of Five Screenplays by Preston... (more)

The First Time I Got Paid for It

First time in paperback: The inside scoop on how some of America's finest screenwriters broke into the movie biz, including Cameron Crowe, Nora Ephron, Lawrence Kasdan, and Nick Kazan. The First Time I Got Paid for It is a one-of-a-kind collection of essays by more than 50 leading film and television writers, with a foreword by screenwriting legend William Goldman. Linked by the theme of a writer's "first... (more)

The Writer Got Screwed (but didn't have to): Guide to the Legal and Business Practices of Writing for the Entertainment Industry

The Writer Got Screwed (but didn't have to): Guide to the Legal and Business Practices of Writing for the Entertainment Industry

by Brooke Wharton

An indispensable roadmap to success, The Writer Got Screwed is the first book to untangle the legal and business aspects of writing for the entertainment industry. It is for the young TV production assistant waiting for a big break, the executive with a treatment tucked away in a bottom drawer, the techie targeting the new field of cyberspace writing, or anyone who is inspired to write screenplays. Savvy... (more)

I Am Jackie Chan: My Life in Action

by Long Ch?eng

As one of the biggest stars to burst into U.S. theaters, Jackie Chan has wowed audiences with death-defying stunts. But who really is this lightning-fast Charlie Chaplin of martial arts moviemaking? Now, in I Am Jackie Chan, he tells the fascinating, harrowing, ultimately triumphant story of his life: How the rebellious son of refugees in tumultuous 1950s Hong Kong became the disciplined disciple of a Chinese... (more)

L.A. Confidential: The Screenplay

by Brian Helgeland

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

by Jennifer Lynch

How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia:Language, History, Theory

How to Read a Film: The World of Movies, Media, Multimedia:Language, History, Theory

by James Monaco

First published in 1977, this popular book has become the source on film and media. Now, James Monaco offers a revised and rewritten third edition incorporating every major aspect of this dynamic medium right up to the present. Looking at film from many vantage points, How to Read a Film: Movies, Media, Multimedia explores the medium as both art and craft, sensibility and science, tradition and technology. After... (more)

Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas

Skywalking: The Life and Films of George Lucas

by Dale Pollock

Updated with information on the "Star Wars" trilogy and prequels, this full-length biography of George Lucas reveals how the director continues to alter the landscape of the film industry. 28 photos.

Spike Mike Reloaded: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema

Spike Mike Reloaded: A Guided Tour Across a Decade of American Independent Cinema

by Kevin Smith, John Pierson

In this book, John Pierson--who is responsible for getting films such as Michael Moore's Roger & Me and Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It produced--provides an account of what goes on behind the scenes in independent filmmaking. "Mr. Pierson covers his territory with urgency and conviction."--New York Times Book Review.

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by Peter Biskind

by Candace Bushnell

by Robert Rodriguez

by William Goldman

by James Wolcott

by Chuck Barris

by Nathanael West

by Chris Kreski, William Shatner

by Michael Hauge

by Preston Sturges

by Preston Sturges

by Preston Sturges

by Brooke Wharton

by Long Ch?eng

by Brian Helgeland

by Jennifer Lynch

by James Monaco

by Dale Pollock

by Kevin Smith, John Pierson