- History, History and criticism, Motion picture authorship, Motion picture industry
Includes an idea-to-film production case study of his short story, Da Vinci.
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Cool, plot-driven, classical in form and grave.
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- William Goldman
- First published
- 1983
- Pages
- 425
- Publisher
- Warner, Abacus, Futura
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780356100753
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First sentence
“It may well be pointless to try and isolate the great powers of the movie industry.”
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