Women Screenwriters Today Their Lives and Words

Name: Women Screenwriters Today Their Lives and Words
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ISBN: 9780275985424

ISBN-10: 0275985423

ISBN-13: 9780275985424

Edition: 2006

Authors: Marsha Mccreadie

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Over the course of cinematic history, women screenwriters have played an essential role in the creation of the films we watch. The question of whether women write from a unique perspective has been debated since the silent era. Marsha McCreadie examines how this "female sensibility" has been defined and questions whether, in fact, it exists at all. The emergence of such films as Lost in Translation and Monster would seem to suggest that women screenwriters are moving in a new direction, heading away from the big-budget action movies that dominate Hollywood today. But there can always be found an Alexandra Seros, for instance, whose thrillers would seem to prove the opposite case. Working…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 12/30/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Giving Melodrama a Good Name: The Film of Sensibility



Vets and Lifers: How They Got and Stayed In



The New Professionals



Breakaway Queens and Genre Benders: Women Writers Stretching and Bending the Film Form



Adaptation



The Independents: Finding a Perch, Having Their Say



The Pragmatists: Moving between Film and Television



The Smaller Screen-TV: A Better Fit for Women?



The View from Abroad



Conclusion



Brief Biographies of Women Screenwriters


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index