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1 online resource |
| Summary |
Breaking down the traditional structures of screenplays in an innovative and progressive way, while also investigating the ways in which screenplays have been traditionally told, this book interrogates how screenplays can be written to reflect the diverse life experiences of real people. Author Jess King explores how existing paradigms of screenplays often exclude the very people watching films and TV today. Taking aspects such as characterization, screenplay structure, and world-building, King offers ways to ensure your screenplays are inclusive and allow for every person's story to be heard. In addition to examples ranging from Sorry to Bother You to Portrait of a Lady on Fire, four case studies on Killing Eve, Sense8, I May Destroy You, and Vida ground the theoretical work in practical application. The book highlights the ways in which screenplays can authentically represent and uplift the lived experiences of those so often left out of the narrative, such as the LGBTQIA+ community, women, and people of color. The book addresses a current demand for more inclusive and progressive representation in film and TV and equips screenwriters with the tools to ensure their screenplays tell authentic stories, oering innovative ways to reimagine current screenwriting practice towards radical equity and inclusion. This is a timely and necessary book that brings the critical lenses of gender studies, queer theory, and critical race studies to bear on the practice of screenwriting, ideal for students of screenwriting, aspiring screenwriters, and industry professionals alike. |
| Biography |
Jess King is an Instructor of Screenwriting and Cinema Production at DePaul University, USA. Jess is an educator, scholar, and interdisciplinary filmmaker, teaching courses in screenwriting, independent television, and film analysis. King's creative scholarship revolves around frameworks for reimagining screenwriting for inclusion and social justice. |
| Contents |
Screenplay manuals and the homogenization of the imagination -- Reimagining character -- Rethinking the role of conflict -- Changing the narrative (structure) -- On world-building -- From Killing Eve to an Eve who kills -- Queer and trans world-building in Sense8 -- The explicit and specific politics of Vida -- The generative power of paradigm destruction in I may destroy you -- Conclusion : a way forward. |
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Motion picture authorship.
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Television authorship.
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Minorities in motion pictures.
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Minorities on television.
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Marginality, Social, in motion pictures.
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Marginality, Social, on television.
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Cinéma -- Art d'écrire. |
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Télévision -- Art d'écrire. |
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Minorités au cinéma. |
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Minorités à la télévision. |
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Marginalité au cinéma. |
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Marginality, Social, in motion pictures |
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Marginality, Social, on television |
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Minorities in motion pictures |
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Minorities on television |
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Motion picture authorship |
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Television authorship |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780367772208 0367772205 (DLC) 2021056047 (OCoLC)1285873683 |
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Print version: King, Jess, 1972- Inclusive screenwriting for film and television. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9781003170310 (DLC) 2021056048 |
| ISBN |
9781000584226 (electronic book) |
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1000584224 (electronic book) |
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9781003170310 (electronic book) |
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1003170315 (electronic book) |
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1000584240 (electronic book) |
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9781000584240 (electronic bk.) |
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10.4324/9781003170310 doi |
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