Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434: The Industry's Premier Teacher Reveals the Secrets of the Successful Screenplay

Lew Hunter

Penguin, May 4, 2004 - Performing Arts - 352 pages

A step-by-step guide to writing a screenplay from an industry expert

For decades, Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434 class at UCLA has been the premier screenwriting course, launching a generation of the industry's most frequently produced writers. Here, he shares the secrets of his course on the screenwriting process by actually writing an original script, step by step, that appears in the book.

Contents

• III: 17
• V: 18
• VI: 24
• VII: 34
• VIII: 43
• IX: 46
• X: 54
• XI: 61
• XII: 63
• XIII: 71
• XIV: 74
• XV: 79
• XVI: 81
• XVII: 83
• XVIII: 84
• XX: 85
• XXI: 87
• XXII: 89
• XXIII: 93
• XXIV: 95
• XXV: 99
• XXVI: 100
• XXVII: 104
• XXVIII: 106
• XXIX: 108
• XXX: 111
• XXXI: 112
• XXXII: 114
• XXXIII: 115
• XXXV: 116
• XXXVI: 117
• XXXVII: 119
• XXXIX: 122
• XL: 124
• XLI: 128
• XLII: 129
• XLIII: 134
• XLIV: 138
• XLV: 159
• XLVI: 161
• XLVII: 172
• XLVIII: 175
• XLIX: 179
• L: 181
• LII: 262
• LIII: 265
• LIV: 266
• LV: 268
• LVI: 269
• LVII: 270
• LVIII: 311
• LIX: 313
• LX: 315
• LXI: 317
• LXII: 319
• LXIII: 321
• LXIV: 327
• LXV: 328
• LXVI: 329
• LXVII: 330
• LXVIII: 331
• LXIX: 333
• LXX: 339
• LXXI: 340
• LXXII: 346

Popular passages

Page 8 - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

About the author

Lew Hunter has master’s degrees from the University of California Los Angeles and Northwestern University and a doctor of letters from Nebraska Wesleyan University. He has worked for Columbia, Lorimar, Paramount, Disney, NBC, ABC, and CBS as a writer, producer, and executive. Currently he is chair emeritus of the screenwriting department at UCLA, and is the founder of the Lew Hunter Superior Screenwriting Colony in Superior, Nebraska.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Lew Hunter's Screenwriting 434: The Industry's Premier Teacher Reveals the Secrets of the Successful Screenplay
• Author: Lew Hunter
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Penguin, 2004
• ISBN: 0399529861, 9780399529863
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Style Manuals; Language Arts & Disciplines / Writing / General; Performing Arts / Film / Screenwriting