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The Screenplay: The Business of Fancydancing

The Screenplay: The Business of Fancydancing
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Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
Written By: Sherman Alexie
Average Reader Rating: Average rating of 2.0/5Average rating of 2.0/5Average rating of 2.0/5Average rating of 2.0/5Average rating of 2.0/5

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 791.4372
EAN: 9781931236270
ISBN: 1931236275
Label: Hanging Loose Press
Manufacturer: Hanging Loose Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 158
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher: Hanging Loose Press
Studio: Hanging Loose Press

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Drama. Native American Studies. "One of the most vital of the younger writers. Watch this guy. He's making myth"--Joy Harjo. "Displays a mastery of language, a breadth of vision, and an astonishing range of voice and emotion"--Studies in American Indian Literature. "The high spirit of Crazy Horse is alive in this book and dances powerfully"--American Book Review. THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING is writer/director Sherman Alexie's first film since his 1998 smash success "Smoke Signals," which he wrote. A ceremony of poetry, song, dance, humor, grief and memory, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING is the story of one man's art and life, and the messy collision between the two.


Reader Reviews for The Screenplay: The Business of Fancydancing:

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Summary: A fine movie, a great screenplay, a disappointing book
Comment: I was fortunate enough to see Alexie's second movie, The Business of Fancydancing, three times in its run in Seattle, which should give you some idea of what kind of esteem I hold it. When I read on his website that plans were in the works to release the screenplay, I knew that I'd have to get it when it was released.

Having read it, I can safely say that if you enjoy reading screenplays to see how much the movie changed from page to screen, that this would be a good one to read. Unfortunately, the book has a very slipshod feel to it, from an uninspired cover design to far too many typographical errors, inconsistent formatting and what appear to be twenty some pages of repeated text towards the end of the book. This last is not a misbound signature, as the pages are numbered consistently throughout. Rather it looks as though someone accidentally pasted a large portion of the manuscript in just before printing.

All in all, I found the content of the book to be fascinating, but the actual presentation of it to be mediocre at best. I would love to find out that I have a bad copy but somehow I doubt that this is the case.



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