Writers are important.
Writer comes before director when people are writer-directors because writers are more important. You cannot direct some people walking around a room.
Somebody has to say why they’re there and what they’re doing.
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Top On Screenwriting and Media Blog Posts for 2020
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- Quotes from When Women Wrote Hollywood – 33 in a series – Alice Guy Blaché and Gaumont
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- Reel Sisters Virtual Film Festival and Lecture Series 2020 – Dr. Rosanne Welch and Dawn Comer Jefferson Analyze The Script, Joe & The Shawl [Video] (1 hour 42 minutes)
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- Show art: Classic Films Based on Novels by Women Authors via LiteraryLadiesGuide
- Quotes from When Women Wrote Hollywood – 33 in a series – Alice Guy Blaché and Gaumont
- From The Research Vault: Phyllis (Nesmith) Gibson. Obituary. (2010, February 25). Los Angeles Times.
- 32 Characters: Uhura, Guinan, Star Trek from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1 minute 16 seconds)
- A Photographic February for Stephens MFA in TV and Screenwriting
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- 36 Star Wars, Alien, and Women Characters from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1 minute)
- A History of Screenwriting – 5 in a series – The Sprinkler Sprinkled (1895) – 1st Comedy Movie – LOUIS LUMIERE – L’Arroseur Arrose
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- Quotes from “Why The Monkees Matter” by Dr. Rosanne Welch – 13 in a series
- The Civil War On Film – 3 in a series – “…films doomed to be mediocre at best and ideologically horrifying at worst.”
- 34 Coco and Exposure To Different Cultures from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered [Video] (2 mins)
- 38 Elaine May from “When Women Wrote Hollywood” with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (53 seconds)
- A History of Screenwriting – 27 in a series – The Mermaid , Georges Méliès (1904)
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- Screenwriters have always been important….” via Instagram
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- A History of Screenwriting – 1 in a series – The Cabbage Fairy (La Fée aux Choux)
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- Staged review – Michael Sheen and David Tennant get meta via The Guardian
- When Women Wrote Hollywood
- Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered – 10th Screenwriters´ (hi)Stories Seminar – Dr. Rosanne Welch
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- 33 The First Six Years from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered [Video] (49 seconds)
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- Mentoris Project Podcast: A Man Of Action Saving Liberty: A Novel Based On The Life Of Giuseppe Garibaldi with Author, Dr. Rosanne Welch [Audio]
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- Our New Book: Women Making History: Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Nancy Hendriks – Part of new series from ABC-Clio Edited by Dr. Rosanne Welch and Dr. Peg Lamphier
- Quotes from When Women Wrote Hollywood – 33 in a series – Alice Guy Blaché and Gaumont | Rosanne Welch, Ph.D
- Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2019, Porto, Portugal, All Sessions
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“Words Matter. Writers Matter. Women Writers Matter.” via Instagram
Screenwriters have always been important….” via Instagram
Screenwriters have always been important.
During the Hollywood Blacklist 9 out of 10 of those jailed were screenwriters.
Their powerful ideas scared those in power.
“If we censor the storytellers…” via Instagram
If we censor the storytellers, we are censoring the stories.
If we censor the stories, we are censoring the culture.
If we censor the culture, we are censoring the people and their struggles.