What Happens Next? (Paperback)

Perhaps no artistic medium serves such a compromised position as the screenplay--never truly seen by an audience, the screenplay must survive an arduous process of cuts and changes, constantly weathering the demands of commerce and an array of vying artistic sensibilities. In the end, the work of the screenwriter goes almost unnoticed behind the glamour of the actors, the vision of the director, and the flash of the cinematography. As a result, Marc Norman, the Academy Award-winning writer of SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, fills a much needed vacuum with his insightful history of the screenwriter in Hollywood. As he chronicles the constantly shifting landscape of the film industry from the 1920s to the present, he recounts many tales of talented writers (including such luminaries as F. Scott Fitzgerald and William Faulkner) who suffered through the often brutal business of cinema, depicts the peculiar role of writers in filmmaking, and creates a vivid portrait of American social and cultural evolution over the last century. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.