Screenwriters and Screenwriting : Putting Practice into Context /
Batty, C.editor.
Screenwriters and Screenwriting is an innovative, fresh and lively book that is useful for both screenwriting practice and academic study. It is international in scope, with case studies and analyses from the US, the UK, Australia, Japan, Ireland and Denmark. The book presents a distinctive collection of chapters from creative academics and critical practitioners that serve one purpose: to put aspects of screenwriting practice into their relevant contexts. Focusing on how screenplays are written, developed and received, the contributors challenge assumptions of what 'screenwriting studies' might be, and celebrates the role of the screenwriter in the creation of a screenplay. It is intended to be thought provoking and stimulating, with the ultimate aim of inspiring current and future screenwriting practitioners and scholars.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Part III: Screenwriting and Authorship; List of Figures; Foreword; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Screenwriters and Their Screenplays; 1 White Space: An Approach to the Practice of Screenwriting as Poetry; 2 Narrating Voices in the Screenplay Text: How the Writer Can Direct the Reader's Visualisations of the Potential Film; 3 Horror Screenwriting: Blending Theory with Practice; 4 Beyond the Screenplay: Memoir and Family Relations in Three Films by Gaylene Preston; 5 Costume as Character Arc: How Emotional Transformation is Written into the Dressed Body
Part II: Screenwriting and the Development Process6 Developing the Screenplay: Stepping into the Unknown; 7 The Irish Film Board: Gatekeeper or Facilitator? The Experience of the Irish Screenwriter; 8 First Impressions: Debut Features by Irish Screenwriters; 9 'Sorry Blondie, I Don't Do Backstory!' Script Editing: The Invisible Craft; 10 Scripting the Real: Mike Leigh's Practice as Antecedent to Contemporary Reality Television Texts The Only Way Is Essex and Made in Chelsea; 11 Based on a True Story: Negotiating Collaboration, Compromise and Authorship in the Script Development Process
12 Sarah Phelps on Writing Television: Adaptation, Collaboration and the Screenwriter's Voice13 Working the Writers' Room: The Context, the Creative Space and the Collaborations of Danish Television Series Borgen; 14 And the Screenwriter Created Man: Male Characterisation in Bromance and Bromedy; 15 Gals Who Make the Jokes: Feature Film Screenwriting for the Satirical Female Voice; 16 Self-Reflexive Screenwriting and LGBT Identity: Framing and Indirectly Reading the Self; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Screenwriters and Screenwriting is an innovative, fresh and lively book that is useful for both screenwriting practice and academic study. It is international in scope, with case studies and analyses from the US, the UK, Australia, Japan, Ireland and Denmark. The book presents a distinctive collection of chapters from creative academics and critical practitioners that serve one purpose: to put aspects of screenwriting practice into their relevant contexts. Focusing on how screenplays are written, developed and received, the contributors challenge assumptions of what 'screenwriting studies' might be, and celebrates the role of the screenwriter in the creation of a screenplay. It is intended to be thought provoking and stimulating, with the ultimate aim of inspiring current and future screenwriting practitioners and scholars.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion picture authorship.
Creative writing.
Communication.
Screen Studies.
Screenwriting.
Creative Writing.
Media Studies.