Bridget Conor

Screenwriting (eBook, ePUB)

Creative Labor and Professional Practice

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice analyzes the histories, practices, identities and subjects which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters.Author Bridget Conor considers the ways in which contemporary screenwriters navigate and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed. Chapters explore areas including:Screenwriting histories and myths of the professionScreenwriting as creative laborScreenwriters' working livesScreenwriting work and the how-to genreScreenwriting work and inequalitiesDrawing on historical and critical perspectives of mainstream screenwriting in the USA and UK, as well as valuable interviews with working screenwriters, this book presents a highly original and multi-faceted study of screenwriting as creative labor and professional practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136169489
• Artikelnr.: 40830441

Autorenporträt

Bridget Conor is a lecturer in the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King¹s College London and previously taught at Goldsmiths College and AUT University in Auckland. She has published in the areas of screenwriting research and creative labor studies and her previous work focused on the production of 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy in New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

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
One: How-to titles and authors Appendix Two: Indicative publishing
information for five 'guru' how-to texts Bibliography