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15 Research Papers and Books from Why (and How) I Created a History of Screenwriting Course

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from Rosanne Welch (http://rosannewelch.com)

Why (and How) I Created a History of Screenwriting Course and NOT a History of Film Course" with Rosanne Welch, Ph.D

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaMt4q8fuIM

My recent presentation at the 11th Annual Screenwriting Research Network conference. (https://screenwritingresearch.com/) Held on the campus of the beautiful Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.

Transcript:

They also all do a research paper -- as anyone should do in a master's class. A gain through the network I've been able to provide them with books they can think about. Nunnally's there. Emma's there because of female screenwriters. That's a lovely book --where she has the script and then she discusses filming and being on set as a writer and how difficult it was to do both and of course it's one of the movies I have them watch, so that's lovely. There are a million books they can use. These are some examples. I like, while it's John Gregory Dunn's book, it's the story of he and his wife Joan Didion, who were creating a film for Disney and this is the entire eight years it took them from the day they were offered the job until the day the movie was made and how -- the difficulty. So to teach students the process and how hard the process is I think is very important. So that's a very handy book. It's also very thin. So students like to read it. They also are the writers of the third -- the second remake of "A Star IS Born." The one with Kris Kristofferson and Barbra Streisand. So interesting to hear their perspective before the new Lady GaGa version comes out.

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In the presentation, I covered the reasons writers have been marginalized - and the reasons they oughtn't to be so disrespected. Then I talked about how my course works, what books I assign, what guest speakers I invite, what research the students do - and ended on a high note by introducing 'When Women Wrote Hollywood' - the book of essays from our inaugural class which has now been published by McFarland.

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