Breaking down the traditional structures of screenplays in an innovative and progressive way, while also investigating the ways in which screenplays have been traditionally told, this book interrogates how screenplays can be written to reflect the diverse life experiences of real people.
* Approaches the practice of screenwriting from an intersectional and inclusive perspective.
* Offers practical ways in which screenwriters can approach their craft to tell stories of under-represented individuals in an authentic way.
* Includes examples from Killing Eve, Pose, Sense8, Vida, and I May Destroy You to illustrate inclusive screenwriting.
'King's book is a revolutionary cry to dismantle the screenwriting patriarchy and decolonialize the craft of the screenplay once and for all. None of the old gurus are spared as King meticulously demonstrates how the rarely-contradicted rules of professional screenwriting are ideologically rooted in the oppression of historically excluded voices.'
Andrew Gay, Southern Oregon University
'King's book is a revolutionary cry to dismantle the screenwriting patriarchy and decolonialize the craft of the screenplay once and for all. None of the old gurus are spared as King meticulously demonstrates how the rarely-contradicted rules of professional screenwriting are ideologically rooted in the oppression of historically excluded voices.'
Andrew Gay, Southern Oregon University
Jess King is an Instructor of Screenwriting and Cinema Production at DePaul University, USA. Jess is an educator, scholar, and interdisciplinary filmmaker, teaching courses in screenwriting, independent television, and film analysis. King's creative scholarship revolves around frameworks for reimagining screenwriting for inclusion and social justice.
Introduction; Part One: Towards a Critique of Screenwriting; Chapter One: Screenplay Manuals and the Homogenization of the Imagination; Chapter Two: Reimagining Character; Chapter Three: Rethinking the Role of Conflict; Chapter Four: Changing the Narrative (Structure); Chapter Five: On World-building; Part Two: Towards an Inclusive and Intersectional Practice of Screenwriting; Chapter Six: From Killing Eve to an Eve Who Kills; Chapter Seven: Queer and Trans World-Building in Sense8; Chapter Eight: The Explicit and Specific Politics of Vida; Chapter Nine: The Generative Power of Paradigm Destruction in I May Destroy You; Conclusion: A Way Forward