Write Screenplays that Sell: The Ackerman Way: Newly Revised and Updated! - Softcover

Ackerman, Hal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931290652 ISBN 13: 9781931290654

Publisher: Tallfellow Press, 2017

Synopsis

You don’t have to attend film school to take a screenwriting course with the master teacher in the field – it’s all in his book! Meet Hal Ackerman, up close and personal, just as hundreds of his students have known him through the years.

Hal Ackerman offers a treasure trove of information on the writing of quality, saleable screenplays by teaching the art of story structure, substance and style.

Over the last quarter century, dozens of screenplays written in his classes have been sold and several have become films, including ones starring Tom Hanks (directed by Steven Spielberg), Gwyneth Paltrow, Christian Bale, Hilary Swank and Diane Lane. They have won accolades in many prestigious contests and have been the gateway scripts to writing jobs in feature films and TV including HBO, Showtime, TNT, OWN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Disney, and more.

With this book every professional writer gets a lifetime collaborator and every aspiring writer has a teacher in residence on his or her shelf.

*Newly Revised and Updated edition featuring Moonlight, La La Land, Juno, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, among others.

*Top-selling screenwriting book for almost 15 years -- Fifteenth Anniversary Edition

About this title

About the Author:

Hal Ackerman is emeritus Co-Area Head of the UCLA Screenwriting program. His book has guided the careers of scores of successful writers. He has sold original material to all the major studio and networks. He has had numerous short stories published in literary journals. “Belle & Melinda†was selected by Robert Olen Butler as the World’s Best Short Short story for Southeast Review. TESTOSTERONE: How Prostate Cancer Made A Man of Me won the William Saroyan Centennial Prize for drama. Under its new title, PRICK, it won BEST SCRIPT at the 2011 United Solo Festival.

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There is an opinion widely held among intelligent people that a nascent artist either has talent or does not. And that in the presence of talent, teaching is either irrelevant or harmful, and that in its absence, teaching is wasted. It is the cult of the natural. After all, did Mozart go to Juilliard? Did Carnegie need an MBA to run a steel empire? Edison had only three months of formal schooling. Shakespeare attended no writing seminars. The American author Flannery O

About this edition

• Publisher: Tallfellow Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1931290652
• ISBN 13: 9781931290654
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320