African-American Screen-Writers Now
Subtitle: Conversations With Hollywood's Black Pack
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Silman-James Press
Published: February 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781879505285
Subjects: Black studies; Films, cinema; Rhetoric; United States; Performing Arts/Dance; Screenwriting; Specific Groups In Film; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Film & Video - Screenwriting; African Americans in the motio; African Americans in the motion picture industry; Interviews; Motion picture authorship; Screenwriters
Description: Hollywood is currently seeing a great influx of young African-American filmmakers who collectively are altering the face of American filmmaking. African-American Screenwriters Now brings together recent interviews with both up-and-coming and established screenwriters, some of whom also work as directors and producers, and paints a vivid picture of the opportunities and obstacles that face today's black filmmakers in Hollywood.

These writers discuss their influences, their goals, the birth of stories, the writing process, getting work, and getting films made, alongside their comments on racial barriers and the portrayal of blacks in film.