@article{318831,
      recid = {318831},
      author = {Norman, Marc,},
      title = {What happens next : a history of American screenwriting /},
      publisher = {Harmony Books,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {553 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {Screenwriters have always been Hollywood's stepchildren.  Yet, popular impressions aside, screenwriters have been  central to moviemaking since audiences got past the sheer  novelty of seeing pictures that moved at all. Soon they  wanted to know: What happens next? Veteran Oscar-winning  screenwriter Norman gives us the first comprehensive  history of the men and women who have answered that  question, from Anita Loos, the highest-paid screenwriter of  her day, to Robert Towne, Quentin Tarantino, Charlie  Kaufman, and other paradigm-busting talents reimagining  movies for the new century. The whole rich story is here:  the imposition of the Production Code in the early 1930s  and the ingenious attempts to outwit the censors; the dark  days of the blacklist that divided the screenwriting  community; the rise of the writer-director in the early  1970s; and the scare of 2005 when new technologies seemed  to dry up the audience for movies and forced the industry  to reinvent itself yet again.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/318831},
}