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Introduction
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The Good People of Hollywood
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Hard Work
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Producers
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Victims and Villains
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Jews in Show Business
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The Development Process; or, Learning to Make Nothing at All!
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The Repressive Mechanism
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A Dark Comedy
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An American Tragedy
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An Understanding and a Misunderstanding of the Repressive Mechanism
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Corruption
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The Screenplay
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How to Write a Screenplay
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Character, Plot, Dialogue, Camera Angles, Advice to the Editor
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Helpful Hints on Screenwriting
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The Script
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Women, Writing For
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How Scripts Got So Bad
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Begging Letters
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(Secret Bonus Chapter) The Three Magic Questions
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Technique
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Storytelling: Some Technical Advice
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Learning by Doing
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Improvisation
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The Slate Piece
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The Wisdom of the Ancients
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Some Principles
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The Audience; or, Lessons from Duck Hunting
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Aesthetic Distance
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The Five-Gag Film
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Bringing a Gun to a Knife Fight; or, A Short Tour of the Concept of Suspension of Disbelief
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Genre
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Bang-Bang
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The Cop Movie
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Film Noir and He-Men
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Shadow of a Doubt
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Religious Films
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The Sequel
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Passing Judgment
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Reverence as Opposed to Love
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Great and Rotten Acting
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Good in the Room: Auditions and the Fallacy of Testing
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Critics
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The Critic and the Censor
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Crimes and Misdemeanors
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Manners in Hollywood
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Theft
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Two Great American Documents; or, In the Wake of the Oscars
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Conclusion: It Ain't Over Till It's Over
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Appendix
Films Referenced
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Index
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