Screenwriters and Screenwriting: Putting Practice into Context

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