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Women screenwriters today : their lives and words / Marsha McCreadie.

By: Publication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2006.Description: xxiv, 176 p. ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0275985423 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1998.2 .M425 2006
  • PN1998.2 .M425 2006
Contents:
Giving melodrama a good name: the film of sensibility -- Vets and lifers: how they got and stayed in -- The new professionals -- Breakaway queens and genre benders: women writers stretching and bending the film form -- Adaptation -- The independents: finding a perch, having their say -- The pragmatists: moving between film and television -- The smaller screen--TV: a better fit for women? -- The view from abroad -- Conclusion -- Appendix: brief biographies of the women screenwriters.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-171) and index.

Giving melodrama a good name: the film of sensibility -- Vets and lifers: how they got and stayed in -- The new professionals -- Breakaway queens and genre benders: women writers stretching and bending the film form -- Adaptation -- The independents: finding a perch, having their say -- The pragmatists: moving between film and television -- The smaller screen--TV: a better fit for women? -- The view from abroad -- Conclusion -- Appendix: brief biographies of the women screenwriters.

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