The Screenwriter Activist: Writing Social Issue Movies

ISBN-13: 9780415897143 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 200 str.

Marilyn Beker

Opis

Using examples from classic and recent popular films, this book explores the motivation and sensibility a screenwriter needs to embark on a social issue project. It also gives techniques for choosing compelling subjects and provides historical context for social issue movies.

O autorze

Marilyn Beker is the Senior Screenwriting Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and the author of Screenwriting With A Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters. She has written extensively for all forms of media—especially television and film and lectures internationally on screenwriting.