Women screenwriters today [[electronic resource] ] : their lives and words / / Marsha McCreadie

• Autore: McCreadie Marsha <1943->
• Pubblicazione: Westport, Conn., : Praeger Publishers, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Disciplina: 812/.54099287; B
• Soggetto topico: Women screenwriters - United States; Motion picture authorship - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-171) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE Giving Melodrama a Good Name: The Film of Sensibility; CHAPTER TWO Vets and Lifers: How They Got and Stayed In; CHAPTER THREE The New Professionals; CHAPTER FOUR Breakaway Queens and Genre Benders: Women Writers Stretching and Bending the Film Form; CHAPTER FIVE Adaptation; CHAPTER SIX The Independents: Finding a Perch, Having Their Say; CHAPTER SEVEN The Pragmatists: Moving between Film and Television; CHAPTER EIGHT The Smaller Screen-TV: A Better Fit for Women?; CHAPTER NINE The View from Abroad; CHAPTER TEN Conclusion ; Appendix: Brief Biographies of Women ScreenwritersNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The question of whether women write from a unique perspective has been debated since the silent era. McCreadie examines how this female sensibility has been defined and whether, in fact, it exists at all. Such films as Lost in Translation and Monster suggest that women screenwriters are moving in a new direction, heading away from the big-budget action movies that dominate Hollywood today. But action-driven genre films, like the thrillers of Alexandra Seros, seem to belie the perception that women write films that are more dialogue- and character-driven than those of male screenwriters. Whethe
• Titolo autorizzato: Women screenwriters today
• ISBN: 1-282-41737-1; 9786612417375; 0-313-04318-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781198703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II