Alistair Owen

Story and Character (eBook, ePUB)

Interviews With British Screenwriters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Owen's thorough research and penetrating questions are what make this book ... the conversation is hilarious as well as informative, and budding screenwriters should pay close attention to extraordinary nuggets' GUARDIAN

'A fascinating, insightful collection' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Covering the cream of British screenwriters, this gives a deep insight into the film industry and the way that classic British films came to be.

Featuring conversations with the writers of, among other films, The Full Monty, Billy Elliot, Four Weddings and a Funeral, 24-Hour Party People, The Wings of a Dove, The World is Not Enough and A World Apart, this is an in-depth study of ten of the top names in British screenwriting.

Lively and funny, challenging and revealing, this series of exclusive interviews with the unsung heroes of contemporary British cinema provides a unique behind-the-scenes look at the movie business, essential both for aspiring writers, industry insiders and film fans.

Featured are interviews with Shawn Slovo, William Boyd, Rupert Preston, Richard Curtis, Lee Hall, Simon Beaufoy, Hossein Amini, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Neal Purvis & Robert Wade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408880661
• Artikelnr.: 44873891

Autorenporträt

Alistair Owen is the author of Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson (one of David Hare's Books of the Year in the Guardian), Story and Character: Interviews with British Screenwriters, Hampton on Hampton (one of Craig Raine's Books of the Year in the Observer) and The Art of Screen Adaptation: Top Writers Reveal Their Craft. He has written original and adapted screenplays and stageplays, on spec and to commission; contributed filmmaker interviews to Creative Screenwriting and film book reviews to the Independent on Sunday; and recently published his first novel, The Vetting Officer. Alistair has chaired Q&A events at the Hay Festival, Edinburgh International Book Festival and London Screenwriters' Festival; and his platform with Christopher Hampton in the Lyttelton Theatre to celebrate Faber's 75th anniversary was published in the anthology Faber Playwrights at the National Theatre. His next nonfiction project is a book of conversations with bestselling author and screenwriter William Boyd, for Penguin.