The Writer and the Screen; on writing for film and television

New York: William Morrow & Company. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. [a trace of shelfwear, slight fading to boards at bottom edge, eensy-weensy nick in fore-edge of half-title page; jacket slightly bumped and dog-eared at base of spine, otherwise clean and attractive with no other significant wear]. "Here is a most informative, helpful, and readable book about the art of writing for the screen. In it, 'screenwright' and director Wolf Rilla deals not only with the basic philsophy of screenwrighting but also with such broad matters as plot, language, character, dialogue, and such more narrow matters as camera angles, (truncated) script format, formula writing, electronic editing [ooh!], locations, the treatment, and the punctuation of film language." (If none of the "some twenty movies" that the author had directed and/or written immediately leap to mind, I'll help you out with the only title you'd be likely to remember anyway: VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.) . (Inventory #: 25287)