Women Screenwriters Today : Their Lives and Words
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Book Description
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 whether, in fact, it exists at all. The emergence of such recent 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 the existence of action-driven genre films, like the thrillers of Alexandra Seros, would seem to belie the perception that women write more dialogue and character-driven films than male screenwriters. Whether or not women actually write differently from men, and whether or not they are interested in the same topics, the author's unique approach--working with and through the words and lives of the women screenwriters themselves--allows both readers and writers an otherwise unattainable look into the ever-growing and ever more essential world of women in Hollywood.
About the Author
MARSHA McCREADIE has written about women and film throughout her career as a professor at Rutgers University and as a film critic at the Arizona Republic. She has published numerous reviews and essays for such publications as Films in Review, American Film, Premiere, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times, and is the author of three books on women and film, one of which, Women on Film: The Critical Eye, won the Dartmouth College Award for Best Dramatic Criticism and the Choice Outstanding Book Award for 1983.
Women Screenwriters Today : Their Lives and Words,Marsha McCreadie,Praeger Publishers,0275985423,Biography,Cinema/Film: Book,Entertainment & Performing Arts - General,Film & Video - History & Criticism,Film & Video - Screenwriting,Motion Pictures (Specific Aspects),Motion picture authorship,Performing Arts,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Screenwriting,United States,Women screenwriters,Women's Studies - General,Social Science / Popular Culture
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