Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting

William Goldman
4.12
8,199 ratings 560 reviews
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President's Men, and other films...into the plush offices of Hollywood producers...into the working lives of acting greats such as Redford, Olivier, Newman, and Hoffman...and into his own professional experiences and creative thought processes in the crafting of screenplays. You get a firsthand look at why and how films get made and what elements make a good screenplay. Says columnist Liz Smith, "You'll be fascinated.
Genres: NonfictionFilmWritingMemoirMedia Tie InBiographyBiography MemoirHistoryAutobiographyPop Culture
608 Pages

Community Reviews:

5 star
3355 (41%)
4 star
3168 (39%)
3 star
1203 (15%)
2 star
279 (3%)
1 star
194 (2%)

Readers also enjoyed

Other books by William Goldman

Lists with this book

Hitchcock/Truffaut
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
Books ABOUT Movies
830 books271 voters
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
The Elements of Style
Bird by Bird
Best Books on Writing
791 books1323 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Glass Castle
Night
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Bird by Bird
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Best Books on Creative Life
502 books616 voters