Michael Lent – författare

What They Didn’t Teach You in Your Screenwriting CourseScreenwriters, listen up! Breakfast with Sharks is not a book about the craft of screenwriting. This is a book about the business of managing your screenwriting career, from advice on choosing an agent to tips on juggling three deal-making breakfasts a day. Prescriptive and useful, Breakfast with Sharks is a real guide to navigating the murky waters of the Hollywood system.Unlike most of the screenwriting books available, here’s one that tells you what to do after you’ve finished your surefire-hit screenplay. Written from the perspective of Michael Lent, an in-the-trenches working screenwriter in Hollywood, this is a real-world look into the script-to-screen business as it is practiced today.Breakfast with Sharks is filled with useful advice on everything from the ins and outs of moving to Los Angeles to understanding terms like “spec,” “option,” and “assignment.” Here you’ll learn what to expect from agents and managers and who does what in the studio hierarchy. And most important, Breakfast with Sharks will help you nail your pitch so the studio exec can’t say no.Rounded out with a Q&A section and resource lists of script competitions, film festivals, trade associations, industry publications, and more, Breakfast with Sharks is chock-full of “take this and use it right now” information for screenwriters at any stage of their careers.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Die Hochschulen haben sich in den letzten Jahren intensiv um die Verbesserung der Qualität der Lehre bemüht. Die in den Fachhochschulen von Nordrhein-Westfalen gewählten Maßnahmen, deren Möglichkeiten, Grenzen und erste Auswirkungen im Hochschullalltag wurden auf einem Forum Hochschullehre gemeinsam erörtert. In diesem Band werden Ansätze zur Qualitätsentwicklung vorgestellt, die auf den verschiedenen Ebenen in der Hochschule - von der Leitung bis zum einzelnen Lehrenden - gesteuert und umgesetzt werden.

Michael Lent asks what role art has in colonisation and subsequent dissolution. He proposes a practice informed by the fatal strategies and 'raw' phenomenology of Jean Baudrillard as a challenge to a system of disappearance. Focusing on the otherness of space to prevent its ultimate dissolution, Lent promotes a spatial practice of radical alterity. Examining ideas of disappearance put forth by Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, he utilises art as a means for investigating loss of potentiality and experience through the representation of space, shifting their ideas – originally ascribed to objects – into a new emphasis.This book ultimately attempts to break a cyclical system that causes everything to disappear into representation and equivalency.