Backstory 5 Intervies ith Screenriters of the 1990s [Paperback]

Patrick McGilligan continues his celebrated interviews with exceptional screenwriters inBackstory 5, focusing on the 1990s. The thirteen featured writersAlbert Brooks, Jean-Claude Carri?re, Nora Ephron, Ronald Harwood, John Hughes, David Koepp, Richard LaGravenese, Barry Levinson, Eric Roth, John Sayles, Tom Stoppard, Barbara Turner, and Rudy Wurlitzerare not confined to the 1990s, but their engrossing, detailed, and richly personal stories create, in McGilligans words, a snapshot of a profession in motion. Emphasizing the craft of writing and the process of collaboration, this new volume looks at how Hollywood is changing to meet new economic and creative challenges.Backstory 5explores how these writers come up with their ideas, how they go about adapting a stage play or work of fiction, how they organize and structure their work, and much more.

Patrick McGilligan, who teaches film at Marquette University, edited the previous four volumes of Backstory, all published by UC Press. He is the author of many books about film, includingAlfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Lightand theNew York TimesNotable Book,George Cukor: A Double Life.

I hope Patrick McGilligan keeps doing his invaluableBackstoryseries as long as there is cinema. No books more clearly elucidate the actual messy, infuriating, and wildly creative process of moviemaking. If you want to know the truth about how films are made today,Backstory 5is the place to find it. Joseph McBride, author ofSearching for John FordandSteven Spielberg: A Biography

Pat McGilligan is the great American film historian, and theBackstoryseries is his epic, subversive account of how movies are really made.Backstory 5, like the volumes before it, is entertaining, eye-opening and indispensable. Lee Server, author ofRobert Mitchum: Baby I Don't CareandAva Gardner: Love is Nothing