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Bambi vs. Godzilla : on the nature, purpose, and practice of the movie business
Mamet, David.
Adult Nonfiction PN1993.5.U6 M244 2007
Mamet, David.
Adult Nonfiction PN1993.5.U6 M244 2007
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| Contents | Page |
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| Introduction | p. xi |
| The Good People of Hollywood | |
| Hard Work | p. 3 |
| Producers | p. 8 |
| Victims and Villains | p. 13 |
| Jews in Show Business | p. 19 |
| The Development Process; or, Learning to Make Nothing at All! | p. 23 |
| The Repressive Mechanism | |
| A Dark Comedy | p. 33 |
| An American Tragedy | p. 37 |
| An Understanding and a Misunderstanding of the Repressive Mechanism | p. 42 |
| Corruption | p. 46 |
| The Screenplay | |
| How to Write a Screenplay | p. 51 |
| Character, Plot, Dialogue, Camera Angles, Advice to the Editor | p. 56 |
| Helpful Hints on Screenwriting | p. 61 |
| The Script | p. 69 |
| Women, Writing For | p. 72 |
| How Scripts Got So Bad | p. 77 |
| Begging Letters | p. 81 |
| (Secret Bonus Chapter) The Three Magic Questions | p. 84 |
| Technique | |
| Storytelling: Some Technical Advice | p. 89 |
| Learning by Doing | p. 93 |
| Improvisation | p. 102 |
| The Slate Piece | p. 107 |
| The Wisdom of the Ancients | p. 110 |
| Some Principles | |
| The Audience; or, Lessons from Duck Hunting | p. 119 |
| Aesthetic Distance | p. 123 |
| The Five-Gag Film | p. 126 |
| Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight; or, A Short Tour of the Concept of Suspension of Disbelief | p. 132 |
| Genre | |
| Bang-Bang | p. 139 |
| The Cop Movie | p. 142 |
| Film Noir and He-Men | p. 145 |
| Shadow of a Doubt | p. 151 |
| Religious Films | p. 153 |
| The Sequel | p. 158 |
| Passing Judgment | |
| Reverence as Opposed to Love | p. 165 |
| Great and Rotten Acting | p. 169 |
| Good in the Room: Auditions and the Fallacy of Testing | p. 174 |
| Critics | p. 183 |
| The Critic and the Censor | p. 186 |
| Crimes and Misdemeanors | |
| Manners in Hollywood | p. 191 |
| Theft | p. 195 |
| Two Great American Documents; or, In the Wake of the Oscars | p. 198 |
| Conclusion: It Ain't Over Till It's Over | p. 202 |
| Appendix - Films Referenced | p. 207 |
| Index | p. 239 |
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