Product Overview

• Author: Goldman, William
• Book Title: Adventures In The Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood [Paperback]
• Language: English

'I don't know if it's ever been equalled: both a guide to how to write and a
guide to how to navigate the experience of being a professional in the
industry. Even though he existed at the most exalted level, it never felt like
that. It felt democratic and egalitarian in the way he wrote. Before his book,
people never really gave thought to screenwriters, their craft, or their place
in the ecosystem of movie-making. Bill not only shone a light on that and
inspired a whole new generation of writers, he also made movie-making and
showbusiness understandable to a vast general audience' Peter Morgan, writer
of The Crown and Frost/Nixon 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 trials and
rewards of working inside the most exciting business in the world. Read more