On Screenwriting and Media with Dr. Rosanne Welch
Writing, Film, Television and More!
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Young people were seeing themselves taken seriously and hearing about other young people on a weekly basis due to The Monkees, often in the program but also in those end-of-show interviews scattered across the seasons.
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Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture
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Wonder what and who I mentioned in “Why The Monkees Matter”? Check out these index entries!
“A Coffin Too Frequent” 16, 37, 80, 96, 103, 114
A Hard Day’s Night 83, 101
“A Nice Place to Visit” 70, 91
ABC 90
Able, Lenny 104
Addams Family, The 90, 97
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, The 7, 18, 121
Aida 120, 128
Albert, Eddie 91
Albom, Mitch 131
Ali, Muhammad 70
“Alias Micky Dolenz” 73, 97, 115
Alias Smith and Jones 105
All My Children 17
Allen, Gracie 9, 11, 121
Ally McBeal 95, 148
American Bandstand 19, 86
American Graffiti 123
Anderson, Jon 31, 97
Andy Griffith Show, The 108, 128, 148
Arnold, Jeanne 78
“Art for Monkees Sake” 19, 21, 45
“As We Go Along” 148
Ashman, Gene 104
Askin, Leon 79
Astor, David 73
“The Audition” 21
Avalon, Frankie 15, 21
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Last night I attended American Cinematheque’s “50th Anniversary of the Monkees” event at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood and had the opportunity to present copies of “Why The Monkees Matter” to writer, Dave Evans and Micky Dolenz. This is the culmination of a long path in writing the book and I was very happy that I could put a copy directly into the hands of 2 people who played such a fundamental role in the creation of “The Monkees” television show — and therefore, my book.
Presenting “Why The Monkees Matter” to Micky Dolenz
Presenting “Why The Monkees Matter” to writer, Dave Evans
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“As Glick and his men storm up the hillside they are overcome by smoke from the Frodis and fall to their knees saying, “I don’t want to fight anymore. I just want to lay down on the grass and be cool.” This is, clearly, the closest comment ever made on the show in reference to the existence of the drug culture, but still the softer, safer pot-smoking culture rather than the heavier, heroin culture that was to come.
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“1960s TV Censorship and The Monkees” gives a brief overview of where censorship standards were in the era – and how The Monkees pushed the envelope with its mentions of the Vietnam War – and Sunset Strip riots – and even with the outrageous storytelling behind “Frodis Caper”, the episode that celebrated the saving of an alien plant that very closely resembled a marijuana plant…
Writer Treva Silverman said the staff got away with such jokes because the network executives were just old enough not to understand any of the references.
Presented at Stephens College MFA in Screenwriting classes on Friday, August 5, 2016
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About Dr. Rosanne Welch
Dr. Rosanne Welch is a professor in the Low Residency MFA in Screenwriting Program from Stephens College, California State University, Fullerton, Mount San Antonio Community College and Cal Poly Pomona. In 2007, she graduated with her Ph.D. in 20th Century U.S./Film History from Claremont Graduate University. She graduated with her M.A. in 20th Century United States History from California State University, Northridge in 2004.
Welch is also a television writer/producer with credits for Beverly Hills 90210 , CBS’s Emmy winning Picket Fences and Touched By An Angel . She also writes and hosts her own podcasts on 3rdPass.media, her first one titled “Mindful(I) Media with Dr. Rosanne Welch.”
Her upcoming book, “Why The Monkees Matter: Teenagers, Television and American Pop Culture” will be published in Fall 2016
Three Ring Circus: How Real Couples Balance Marriage, Work and Kids and The Encyclopedia of Women in Aviation and Space are two books she has written. Los Angeles Times and the Journal of Screenwriting hold some of her published articles.
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“Zor and Zam”
The lyrics tell the story of kings from two countries who call for a war, with the twist being the ending when “the war was over before it begun” because “two little kings playing a game, they called for a war and nobody came”.
Few better examples of anti-Vietnam war or anti-draft songs appeared on national network television.
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“The power of that love was inside of Peter. It was inside of him from the first. And it was that kind of power that made Peter able to play the harp… Don’t you understand what that is, when you have that inside of you. If you love music, man. You can play music… All it takes is just love, ‘cause baby in the final analysis, love is power. That’s where the power is at.”
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