Gender Inequality in Screenwriting Work

• Main Author: Wreyford, Natalie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Motion picture authorship.; Culture.; Gender.; Motion pictures.; Screenwriting.; Culture and Gender.; Film/TV Industry.

This is the first book to critically examine the recruitment and working practices of screenwriters. Drawing on interviews with screenwriters and those that employ them, Natalie Wreyford provides a deep and detailed understanding of entrenched gender inequality in the UK film industry and answers th...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The extent of gender inequality in film screenwriting work
• 2. Gendering the screenwriter
• 3. Gender, capital and getting in
• 4. The gendered dynamics of the recruitment of screenwriters
• 5. The impact of motherhood on screenwriters
• 6. Being outnumbered
• 7. Gendering taste
• 8. Conclusions: Moving beyond numbers to make change happen.