A Movie Lover's Guide to Academy Award Winning Screenplays, Vol. 11 - The Best Adapted Screenplays of the 1960s Like Midnight Cowboy, to Kill a Mockingbird, Doctor Zhivago, in the Heat of the Night, and More (Paperback)


Without writers there would be no novels, poetry, or films. A screenplay is the backbone of every great movie - and every not so great movie. They're what actors and directors wait for and dream about and every now and again an amazing screenplay comes along. Some of the best screenplays that come along are adaptations of novels and plays.This series takes a look at the Academy Award winning adapted screenplays over the past 80 years. In this edition, read about the films "Midnight Cowboy," "Tom Jones," "Doctor Zhivago," "In the Heat of the Night," and more.Also read about the Academy Awards and the history behind the film industry's most prestigious honor. Look for more editions of "A Movie Lover's Guide to Academy Award Winning Screenplays" to read about some of the greatest films ever made. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.

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Without writers there would be no novels, poetry, or films. A screenplay is the backbone of every great movie - and every not so great movie. They're what actors and directors wait for and dream about and every now and again an amazing screenplay comes along. Some of the best screenplays that come along are adaptations of novels and plays.This series takes a look at the Academy Award winning adapted screenplays over the past 80 years. In this edition, read about the films "Midnight Cowboy," "Tom Jones," "Doctor Zhivago," "In the Heat of the Night," and more.Also read about the Academy Awards and the history behind the film industry's most prestigious honor. Look for more editions of "A Movie Lover's Guide to Academy Award Winning Screenplays" to read about some of the greatest films ever made. Project Webster represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Project Webster continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge.

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Imprint

Webster's Digital Services

Country of origin

United States

Release date

December 2010

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First published

December 2010

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Dimensions

246 x 189 x 7mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Trade

Pages

122

ISBN-13

978-1-240-09110-2

Barcode

9781240091102

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1-240-09110-9



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