| Description |
x, 159 pages ; 25 cm |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
No Clue: Or Learning to Write for the Movies -- The Hired Pen -- The Deadline Syndrome -- The Telephone Booth Screenwriter -- The Fun of It All -- All the President's Men, Seven Beauties, History, Innocence, Guilt, Redemption, and the Star System -- The Screenplay as Non-Book: A Consideration -- Pencils West: Or a Theory for the Shoot-'Em Up -- "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and the Movie-Less Novelists -- O Ragged Time Knit Up Thy Ravell'd Sleave -- The Situation in Criticism: Reviewers, Critics, Professors -- Character, the Tube, and the Death of Movies -- The Disappearance of Love -- Woody Allen, Keith Carradine, Lily Tomlin, and the Disappearance of Grace -- The Last Picture Shows -- The Seasons of L.A. -- The Last Movie Column -- The Last Picture Show: A Last Word -- Approaching Cheyenne ... Leaving Lumet. Oh, Pshaw! -- Movie-Tripping: My Own Rotten Film Festival -- A Walk in Pasadena with Di-Annie and Mary Alice. |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- United States.
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Motion picture plays, American -- History and criticism.
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Motion picture authorship.
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McMurtry, Larry.
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Screenwriters -- United States -- Biography.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: McMurtry, Larry. Film flam. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1987 (OCoLC)572019540 |
| ISBN |
0671643088 |
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9780671643089 |
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