Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice

by Bridget Conor

Overview

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 profession
• Screenwriting as creative labor
• Screenwriters’ working lives
• Screenwriting work and the how-to genre
• Screenwriting work and inequalities

Drawing 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.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorandfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203080771

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136169489
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/16/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	156
Sales rank:	424,334
File size:	438 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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