PLAYING WITH THE ALPHABET - II

An apology for the length of the question, but I found some of the stuff really interesting. I do promise you that this is the longest question of the VENUIZ.
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X is a movie, whose central idea has been borrowed from the book shown below. The book (written by Y) shares its name with the movie.

X's screenplay was written by a man who wrote under many names. Though he had read the original novel, the director (Z) told him to forget it completely while writing the screenplay. Along with X, there were three other movies directed by Z which were based on books by Y.



A (who was Russian-American) played a Freudian analyst in B, a movie directed by Z. B was one of 3 films to be made as a partnership between producer W and director Z. There was friction between the two during the making of B and one of the main causes of this friction was Salvador Dali, who was hired to conceive scenes of mental delusion. A picture of the producer W:



A is widely regarded to be one of the greatest actors of the 20th century, although he was mainly a stage actor. A's uncle, C, is known around the world as one of the greatest short story writers of all time.

C lends his name to a literary device D, which is the stark opposite of another literary device E. E can be represented as follows:



Do the needful and give me X, Y, Z, W, A, B, C, D and E!