Screen-Writer's Handbook

by Constance Nash and Virginia Oakey

This is a step-by-step guide for the beginning screenwriter from the original idea through the completed-and marketed-motion picture script. It tells how to plan and organize the screenplay, how to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006463454X
• ISBN13: 9780064634540
• Release Date: June 1978
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.1" x 0.4" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

A Practical Guide to Screenwriting

Nash and Oakey deliver a jewel in their 149-page screenwriting book. Here they present the elements they feel are important in screenplays. The fact that the authors do not expound on their opinions is a welcome aspect of their book. They mainly use parts of screenplays to make their points. The section containing a few interviews (Ernest Lehman, Robert Evans, Delbert Mann, Frank Rosenfelt, Michael Zimring, and Gene Wilder) is useful. Another section that contains excerpts from screenplays and treatmen