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- Book Title
- Rewrite Man : The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren
- ISBN
- 9780292759459
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
0292759452
ISBN-13
9780292759459
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234624297
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Rewrite Man : the Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren
Subject
Film / Screenwriting, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.1 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2016-033835
Reviews
The bulk of the book details his role in the creation of numerous successful films, including Batman, Beetlejuice, and Top Gun, and his battles to get his contributions to the filmed scripts formally recognized. Skaaren's skill and efficiency-he rewrote Top Gun in just 10 days-became legendary, and Macor explains how the changes he made to characterizations improved them., The bulk of the book details his role in the creation of numerous successful films, including Batman , Beetlejuice , and Top Gun , and his battles to get his contributions to the filmed scripts formally recognized. Skaaren's skill and efficiency--he rewrote Top Gun in just 10 days--became legendary, and Macor explains how the changes he made to characterizations improved them., A remarkable piece of scholarship detailing the inner workings of Hollywood screenwriting in the 1980s, WGA regulations and politics, and the psychology of a highly creative and driven Minnesotan-turned-Texan who had 'Spielbergian' ambitions.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 B
Table Of Content
Introduction One. From Hallingdal to Houston Two. Hollywood on the Colorado Three. Breaking Away Four. Highway to the Danger Zone Five. Hollywood Gothic Six. One Hit After Another Seven. Batmania Eight. The Man Hollywood Trusts Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In Rewrite Man , Alison Macor tells an engrossing story about the challenges faced by a top screenwriter at the crossroads of mixed and conflicting agendas in Hollywood. Whether writing love scenes for Tom Cruise on the set of Top Gun , running lines with Michael Keaton on Beetlejuice , or crafting Nietzschean dialogue for Jack Nicholson on Batman , Warren Skaaren collaborated with many of New Hollywood's most powerful stars, producers, and directors. By the time of his premature death in 1990, Skaaren was one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers, although he rarely left Austin, where he lived and worked. Yet he had to battle for shared screenwriting credit on these films, and his struggles yield a new understanding of the secretive screen credit arbitration process--a process that has only become more intense, more litigious, and more public for screenwriters and their union, the Writers Guild of America, since Skaaren's time. His story, told through a wealth of archival material, illuminates crucial issues of film authorship that have seldom been explored., This lively biography of the screenwriter of 1980s hit movies Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Beetlejuice, and Batman illuminates issues of film authorship that have become even more contested in the era of blockbuster filmmaking.
LC Classification Number
PS3569.K33Z76 2017
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