Screenwriting : creative labour and professional practice / Bridget Conor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Conor, Bridget, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion picture authorship--Vocational guidance.

Motion picture authorship.

Motion pictures--Production and direction--Vocational guidance.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (164 p.)

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Screenwriting has been the subject of a wealth of popular literature that seeks to offer this work to all, to reveal the 'secrets' of screenwriting or to provide accounts of how to succeed in the mainstream screen production industries, primarily in Hollywood. But the deluge of How-to style manuals and interview collections offer little systematic analysis of the histories, practices, identities and subjects which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters. Screenwriting work demands particular and complex forms of subjectivity in order to distinguish it from other forms of filmmaking and writing, to make the work knowable and do-able. This book analyzes the ways in which screenwriters navigate and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed. Drawing on historical and critical perspectives of mainstream screenwriting in the USA and UK, as well as empirical data drawn from interviews, labour market and textual analysis, this book presents an original and multi-faceted case study of screenwriting as creative labor and professional practice. Using a range of theoretical approaches and an interdisciplinary methodological framework, it examines both the structural and subjective features of screenwriting work and it analyzes not only who has access to the work, but also who is excluded from this profession"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Setting the scene; 1 Screenwriting histories and myths of the profession; 2 Screenwriting as creative labor; 3 Screenwriters' working lives; 4 Screenwriting work and the how-to genre; 5 Screenwriting work: Who's in and who's out?; Conclusion: Screenwriting as good work; Appendix 1: How-to titles and authors; Appendix 2: Indicative publishing information for five 'guru' how-to text; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780415642675

0415642671

9780203080771

0203080777

9781136169489

1136169482

9781136169496

1136169490

OCLC:

877868334

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access