Aaron Hunter lectures in the Department of Media Studies at Maynooth University, Ireland. A former Irish Research Council postdoctoral research fellow, his research interests include New Hollywood, film authorship, women in film and television, and web series. His book Authoring Hal Ashby: The Myth of the New Hollywood Auteur was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2016.
In this bold and ambitious work, Hunter demonstrates with great clarity the collaborative nature of the screenwriting process through an examination of one of the most celebrated screenplays of the 20th Century, Being There. Meticulously dissecting its scenes, analyzing its dialogue and showing how and why they evolved through the contribution of key creative agents over the course of several years, Being There and the Evolution of a Screenplay provides the reader with a rare opportunity to understand the creative process at the heart of Hollywood cinema. A must-read for screenwriting students! * Yannis Tzioumakis, co-editor of The Hollywood Renaissance (2018) *