Screenwriting

<p>Screenwriting: Creative Labor and Professional Practice analyzes the histories practices identities and subjects which form and shape the daily working lives of screenwriters.</p><p>Author Bridget Conor considers the ways in which contemporary screenwriters navigate and make sense of the labor markets in which they are immersed. </p><p>Chapters explore areas including:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Screenwriting histories and myths of the profession</li> <p> </p> <li>Screenwriting as creative labor</li> <p> </p> <li>Screenwriters’ working lives</li> <p> </p> <li>Screenwriting work and the how-to genre</li> <p> </p> <li>Screenwriting work and inequalities</li> </ul><p>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.</p><p>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</p>