Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Unofficial Companion (Paperback)

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The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Unofficial Companion is a comprehensive guide covering all 10 seasons (including the current 20082009 season) and will include a synopsis and an objective analysis for each episode, as well as commentaries or recollections from the people involved in crafting the one-hour tale. It goes after the heart of SVU through interviews with actors, writers, producers, casting agents, location scouts and others. Moreover, the authors peek behind the scenes of the bicoastal operation, observing the progress of an entire episode shot in New York City and a script fine-tuned in Los Angeles. The book provides fascinating insight, delighting SVU devotees who love on-screen and backstage trivia. In addition, creator Dick Wolf offers readers a gripping foreword to the book.

About the Author

Susan Green is an award-winning journalist. She freelances for Vermont Life, a quarterly magazine; the Burlington Free Press, the state's major daily newspaper; and Seven Days, an alternative weekly. She also has reviewed films for BoxOffice magazine and written entertainment stories for The Hollywood Reporter. Her articles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Premiere and USA Today, among other national periodicals.

With Kevin Courrier, Green coauthored two editions of Law & Order: The Unofficial Companion (Renaissance/St. Martin's Press, 1998 and 1999). Her coffee-table book about Bread & Puppet Theater came out in 1986 (Green Valley Media). She contributed a chapter to Backstory 3: Interviews with Screenwriters of the `60s (University of California Press, 1997) and her short fiction has been published in several literary journals. Randee Dawn is a New York-based journalist and is a senior editor with The Hollywood Reporter. Randee freelances for MovieMaker magazine. She has previously worked for Soap Opera Digest, National Public Radio's Living on Earth and WGBH-TV's The Ten O'Clock News. In the past 20 years she has covered the entertainment industry for Billboard, The Boston Phoenix, E! Online, New Musical Express and other national and international publications. She also contributed to the first edition of Les Series Tele, a French book about American television and has a paralegal certificate from New York University.

Her short fiction has appeared online in 3AM Magazine and on the Well-Told Tales podcast.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: BenBella Books (September 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933771887
• ISBN-13: 978-1933771885
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,361 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Terrific Book about the best cop show on TV, September 30, 2009

By	Lee Goldberg (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you're a fan of SVU (as I am) or are simply fascinated by television (as I am, too), you will love this book. It delves into every aspect of the production of the show, offers detailed information on the writers, cast and crew, as well as the obligatory (and surprisingly entertaining and informative) episode guide. I wish they'd tried a little harder to get the scoop on why some actors were fired instead of glossing over it (which is why I held back one "star"), but some compromises probably had to be made to get the level of cooperation the authors enjoyed from the writers, cast and crew, all of whom are interviewed and length. It's refreshing to read a book about a TV show that doesn't lapse into mindless, fannish drool, but is a thoughtful, intelligent and comprehensive overview. Not only is the book informative and interesting, it's also surprisingly up-to-date...the episode guide covers every season except the one that just started last week. I hope they will update the book as the series goes on.