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Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434: The Industry's Premier Teacher Reveals the Secrets of the Successful Screenplay » (Revised)

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Authors: Lew Hunter
ISBN-13: 9780399529863, ISBN-10: 0399529861
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: Revised

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Author Biography: Lew Hunter

Lew Hunter has worked for Columbia, Lorimar, Paramount, Disney, NBC, ABC, and CBS as a writer, producer, and executive. Currently he is Chair Emeritus of the screenwriting department at UCLA, and recently established the Lew Hunter Superior Screenwriting colony in the town of Superior, Nebraska. He lectures regularly throughout the country and internationally.

Book Synopsis

For decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the secrets of his course on the screenwriting process by actually writing an original script, step by step, that appears in the book.

Table of Contents

Fade in redux7
Fade in13
Ch. 1Ideas17
Ch. 2The two-minute movie43
Ch. 3Building your characters71
Ch. 4The outline for you and "them"87
Ch. 5The act one script119
Ch. 6The act two script161
Ch. 7The act three script265
Ch. 8The rewrite(s)313
Fade out343
Index346
About the author352

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