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Silver City and Other Screenplays

John Sayles

John Sayles -- winner of the John Steinbeck Award and others -- has been called the "conscience of the independent film world" and the screenwriter's screenwriter. Silver City and Other Screenplays is a collection of Sayles's greatest work, something that will delight his legion of fans and also aspiring screenwriters and film students who will regard the book as a master class in the art of screenwriting. Silver City and Other Screenplays includes Sayles's most celebrated work -- including Matewan, Return of the Secaucus Seven, Lone Star, and Passion Fish (for which he received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay), and his latest film Silver City, a spirited lampoon and a timely, toxic warning about the present state of American democracy.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Bold Type Books
  • Publish Date: Sep 8th, 2004
  • Pages: 484
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.96in - 6.34in - 1.32in - 1.45lb
  • EAN: 9781560256311
  • Categories: ScreenplaysFilm - Screenwriting

About the Author

If the U.S. were to boast one great independent film director, he would be John Sayles, a cult figure among his admirers. Nominated for both an Academy Award for scriptwriting and a National Book Award, Sayles has written screenplays, teleplays, short stories, and novels and has worked as a script doctor for a virtual who's who of Hollywood film and television talent.