Screenwriters and Screenwriting is an innovative, fresh and lively book that is useful for both screenwriting practice and academic study. It is international in scope, with case studies and analyses from the US, the UK, Australia, Japan, Ireland and Denmark. The book presents a distinctive collection of chapters from creative academics and critical practitioners that serve one purpose: to put aspects of screenwriting practice into their relevant contexts. Focusing on how screenplays are written, developed and received, the contributors challenge assumptions of what 'screenwriting studies' might be, and celebrates the role of the screenwriter in the creation of a screenplay. It is intended to be thought provoking and stimulating, with the ultimate aim of inspiring current and future screenwriting practitioners and scholars.

Screenwriters and Screenwriting is an innovative, fresh and lively book that is useful for both screenwriting practice and academic study. It is international in scope, with case studies and analyses from the US, the UK, Australia, Japan, Ireland and Denmark. The book presents a distinctive collection of chapters from creative academics and critical practitioners that serve one purpose: to put aspects of screenwriting practice into their relevant contexts. Focusing on how screenplays are written, developed and received, the contributors challenge assumptions of what 'screenwriting studies' might be, and celebrates the role of the screenwriter in the creation of a screenplay. It is intended to be thought provoking and stimulating, with the ultimate aim of inspiring current and future screenwriting practitioners and scholars.

Introduction PART I: SCREENWRITERS AND THEIR SCREENPLAYS 1. White Space: An Approach to the Practice of Screenwriting as Poetry; Elisabeth Lewis Corley and Joseph Megel 2. Narrating Voices in the Screenplay Text: How the Writer can Direct the Reader's Visualisations of the Potential FIlm; Ann Ingelstrom 3. Writing Horror: Blending Theory With Practice; Shaun Kimber 4. Beyond the Screenplay: Memoir and Family Relations in Three Films by Gaylene Preston; Hester Joyce 5. Costume as Character Arc: How Emotional Transformation is Written into the Dressed Body; Craig Batty PART II: SCREENWRITING AND THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 6. Developing the Screenplay: Stepping into the Unknown; Margot Nash 7. 'The Irish Film Board: Gatekeeper or Facilitator?' The Experience of the Irish Screenwriter; Díóg O'Connell 8. First Impressions: Debut Features by Irish Screenwriters; Susan Liddy 9. 'Sorry Blondie, I Don't Do Backstory!' Script Editing: The Invisible Craft; Paul Wells 10. Scripting the Real: Mike Leigh's Practice as Antecedent to Contemporary Reality TV Texts The Only Way is Essex and Made in Chelsea; Peri Bradley PART III: SCREENWRITING AND AUTHORSHIP 11. Based on a True Story: Negotiating Collaboration, Compromise and Authorship in the Script Development Process; Alec McAulay 12. Sarah Phelps on Writing Television: Adaptation, Collaboration, and the Screenwriter's Voice; Kate Iles 13. Working the Writers' Room: The Context, the Creative Space and the Collaborations of Danish Television Series Borgen; Eva Novrup Redvall 14. And the Screenwriter Created Man: Male Characterisation in Bromance and Bromedy; Helen Jacey 15. Gals Who Make the Jokes: Feature Film Screenwriting for the Satirical Female Voice; Marilyn Tofler 16. Self-Reflexive Screenwriting and LGBT Identity: Framing and Indirectly Reading the Self; Christopher Pullen