Women Screenwriters

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Jill Nelmes, Jule Selbo

      Pages 1-3

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3. Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Burkina Faso

      • Jule Selbo

      Pages 7-8

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   3. Egypt

      • Koen Van Eynde

      Pages 9-17

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   4. Ghana

      • Jule Selbo

      Pages 18-20

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   5. Kenya

      • Jeremy B. Warner

      Pages 21-22

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   6. Morocco

      • Stefanie Van de Peer

      Pages 23-28

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   7. Namibia

      • Jule Selbo

      Pages 29-29

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   8. Nigeria

      • Noah Tsika

      Pages 30-38

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   9. South Africa

      • Haseenah Ebrahim

      Pages 39-44

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   10. Tunisia

       • Ouissal Mejri

       Pages 45-52

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4. Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. China and Hong Kong

      • Cristina Colet, Jule Selbo, Jeremy B. Warner

      Pages 55-68

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   3. India

      • Alexis Krasilovsky, Debashree Mukherjee, Jule Selbo, Anubha Yadav

      Pages 69-86

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   4. Iran

      • Debbie Danielpour

      Pages 87-103

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   5. Israel

      • Jule Selbo

      Pages 104-107

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   6. Japan

      • Lauri Kitsnik, Jule Selbo, Michael Smith

      Pages 108-130

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   7. Korea

      • Jeremy B. Warner, Brian Yecies

      Pages 131-142

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   8. Palestine

      • Jule Selbo

      Pages 143-144

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Women Screenwriters is a study of more than 300 female writers from 60 nations, from the first film scenarios produced in 1986 to the present day. Divided into six sections by continent, the entries give an overview of the history of women screenwriters in each country, as well as individual biographies of its most influential.

• Screenwriting
• women
• film
• international
• film history
• female screenwriters
• female filmmakers
• gender
• feminism
• screenwriting

“Women Screenwriters: An International Guide offers a landmark contribution to the critical appraisal of an emerging field in the scholarship of screenwriting. … the volume launches an extensive coverage of the subject matter at this moment in time. … Intended as resource material, the collection achieves its aim as a useful and reliable work of reference, and it will no doubt benefit both a general and specialist readership in the English-speaking world and well beyond.” (Jozefina Komporaly, Theater Forschung, theaterforschung.de, May, 2016)

"The stories about the storytellers in Women Screenwriters International Guide are sometimes as absorbing and fascinating as what the storytellers themselves had created as screenplays. The editors and writers of this book have conducted impressive research and new synthesis that often results in discoveries about film writers who happen to be of female gender, and thus contributing greatly to cinema scholarship." Milcho Manchevski - Macedonian screenwriter/director of Academy Award nominated Before the Rain (1994) and Dust (2001) and Mothers (2010)

"At last there is a comprehensive book dedicated to the female voice in film - internationally heralded women screenwriters and also those whose work may have been forgotten or unacknowledged beyond the borders of their own countries. It is an inspirational document for all female storytellers, wherever they may be in their careers, to know that they are part of a tribe with such deep roots globally. It is at the same time an extraordinary social history that will be of great interest to anyone passionate about filmmaking. It's time that the curtain to be lifted on female screenwriters! This book has been compiled and written with thoroughness and insight. It is a gift to the archives of film history." Kathryn Himoff - film editor and producer of features, television, documentaries: Man in the High Castle (2015),

Pollock (2000), Appaloosa (2008), Georgia O'Keefe (2009), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), The Office

(2005), Ugly Betty (2006), Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2002) and more.

• University of East London, UK

  Jill Nelmes

• California State University, Fullerton, USA

  Jule Selbo

Jill Nelmes, University of East London, UK Jule Selbo, California State University, Fullerton, USA Añuli Agina, University of Westminster, UK Jean Ansolbehere, Script Coordinator, Los Angeles, USA Robert Arnett, Old Dominion University, USA Carmen Sofía Brenes, University of los Andes, Chile Lavinia Brydon, University of Kent, UK Erik Buikema, University of Groningen, Netherlands Michael Burri, University of Pennsylvania, USA Cristina Colet, Saint John International University Vinovo, Italy Mariapia Comand, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy Kelley Conway, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Michael Coutanche, Ryerson RTV School of Media, Canada Linda Craig, University of East London, UK Debbie Danielpour, Boston University, USA Robert Dassanowsky, University of Colorado, USA Tanya Gail Davies, University of Technology, Jamaica Maria-Teresa DePaoli, Kansas State University, USA Olga Dimitrijevi?, Playwright and Dramaturg, Yugoslavia Kath Dooley, Curtin University, Western Australia Haseenah Ebrahim, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Johanna Forsman, Screenwriter and Transmedia Producer, Sweden Marcella Forster, University of Lincoln, UK Nicolette Freeman, University of Melbourne, Australia Michelle Leigh Farrell, Georgetown University, USA Lisa French, RMIT University, Australia Camila Malagolini Gama, California State University, Fullerton, USA Andrew Kenneth Gay, Southern Oregon University, USA Ronald Geerts, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Christine Gledhill, New York University, USA Julia Sabina Gutiérrez, Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris III), France Kristiina Hackel, California State University, Los Angele, USA Gert Jan Harkema, Stockholm University, Sweden Mary Harrod, University of Warwick, UK Susan Hayward, University of Exeter, UK Trinidad Herrera, Universidad de los Andes, Chile Stella Hockenhull, University of Wolverhampton, UK Helen Jacey, Bournemouth University, UK Hester Joyce, La Trobe University, Australia Tonia Kazakopoulou, University of Reading, UK Margit Keerdo-Dawson, Baltic Film and Media School in Tallinn, Estonia Alexis Krasilovsky, California State University, Northridge, USA Kyja Kristjansson-Nelson, Minnesota State University Moorhead, USA Michele Leigh, Southern Illinois University, USA Warren Lewis, California State University, Fullerton, USA Susan Liddy, University of Limerick, Ireland Sam Lively, California State University, Fullerton, USA Victoria Lucas, Development and Production Executive, USA Bernadette Luciano, University of Auckland, New Zealand Ervin Malakaj, Washington University, St. Louis, USA Florence Martin, Goucher College, USA Monika Maslowska, Bangor University, Wales Ouissal Mejri, University of Bologna, Italy Monica Mitarc?, Christian University, Romania Nathalie Morris, BFI National Archive, UK Bettina Moss, National University, California, USA Debashree Mukherjee, New York University, USA Claudia Myers, American University, Washington D.C., USA Margot Nash, University ofTechnology, Sydney, Australia Eva Novrup Redvall, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Díóg O'Connell, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland Jennifer O'Connell, University of Groningen, Netherlands Riikka Pennanen, National Audiovisual Institute, Finland Mark Poole, Drama and Documentary Director, Australia María Luisa Prado, Universidad de los Andes, Chile Rianne Pras, University of Groningen, Netherlands Megan Reilly, Print and Internet Journalist/Script Supervisor, USA Vincent Ros, University of Groningen, Netherlands Paolo Russo, Oxford Brookes University, UK Filip ára, Charles University, Czech Republic Johanna Seelbach, University of Groningen, Netherlands Jule Selbo, California State University, Fullerton, USA Juliane Scholz, University of Leipzig, Germany Dorin Schumacher, Independent Scholar, USA Felipe Pruneda Senties, University of Pittsburgh, USA Jamie Sherry, Bangor University, UK Anne Slatton, University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA Alison Smith, Universityof Liverpool, UK Michael Smith, University of Leeds, UK David Sorfa, University of Edinburgh, UK Tom Stempel, Los Angeles City College, USA Belkis Suárez Faillace, Mount Mercy University, USA Kjell Sundstedt, Author and Screenwriter, Sweden Raija Talvio, Aalto University ELO Film School, Helsinki Alice N?mcová Tejkalová, Charles University, Czech Republic Bridget Tompkins, University of Auckland, New Zealand Tatiana Tursunova-Tlatov, Russian State University of Cinematography (VGIK), Russia Noah Tsika, City University of New York, USA Isabelle Vanderschelden, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Thomas van den Berg, University of Groningen, Netherlands Koen Van Eynde, University of Leuven, Belgium Annelies van Noortwijk, University of Groningen, Netherlands Jaukje van Wonderen, University of Groningen, Netherlands JT Velikovsky University of Western Sydney, Australia Elena Von Kassel Siambani, University of Paris 3 Sorbonne-Nouvelle, France Jeremy B. Warner, Scholar, Film Editor andFilm Producer, USA Anna Weinstein, Auburn University, USA Rosanne Welch, California State University, Fullerton, USA Paul Wells, Loughborough University, UK Steven Willemsen, University of Groningen, Netherlands Carl Wilson, The Sheffield College, UK Anubha Yadav, University of Delhi, India Brian Yecies, University of Wollongong, Australia

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