Naked Screenwriting: Twenty-two Oscar-Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing

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Lew Hunter Meg Gifford

Naked Screenwriting

Twenty-two Oscar-Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing

Lew Hunter, Meg Gifford

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Rowman & Littlefield
15 March 2021

Screenwriting techniques

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.

By: Lew Hunter
With: Meg Gifford
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 39mm
Weight: 798g
ISBN: 9781538137956
ISBN 10: 153813795X
Pages: 530
Publication Date: 15 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lew Hunter is an American screenwriter, author and educator and is chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television. Over half of the Oscar-winning scripts over the past twenty years have been written by students of Hunter. His former students and advocates include Adrienne Parks, Allison Anders, David Koepp, Mike Werb, Sacha Gervasi, Dan Pyne, David Titcher, Diane Saltzberg, Michael Colleary, Don Mancini, Kathy Stumpe, Darren Star, Alexander Payne, and Tom Shadyac. Steven Spielberg has called Hunter “the best screenwriting teacher going.” Hunter resides in Los Angeles, California. Meg Gifford is a screenwriter and author. She won the Samuel Goldwyn award, the Sloan Science writing award, and every showcase while under Lew’s advisement. She recently wrote a play that was produced in Los Angeles and also writes novels. Gifford resides in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews for Naked Screenwriting: Twenty-two Oscar-Winning Screenwriters Bare Their Secrets to Writing

Hunter (Screenwriting 434) collects interviews with 22 prize-winning screenwriters in this top-notch volume . . . offer[ing] unique access to a wide array of talent. It's a treasure trove for Hollywood historians and aspiring screenwriters alike.--Publishers Weekly Novice and professional screenwriters alike can find advice and solace from this marvelous collection of interviews. Lew is a master teacher, and this book extends his work in the classroom to us all.--Alexander Payne, director/writer/producer Lew Hunter, a legendary teacher of screenwriting, has assembled the ultimate masters class. What an extraordinary resource! If you're passionate about movies and the scripts that inspire them, you need to get NAKED.--Ted Tally, Academy Award-winning screenwriter How awesome for the reader to experience what it feels like to be on the inside of this process. A crash course from some of the most decorated writers and producers of our time!--Anna Marie Sinatra, TV and radio personality, author, and speaker, SinatraSolutions.com In sincere hopes that something has been provided within Lew Hunter's collection of interviews Naked Screenwriting that will be useful to our beloved young cinema artists.--Francis Ford Coppola