Script girls : women screenwriters in Hollywood

Authors:Lizzie Francke, British Film Institute

Summary:This work traces the history of women in the screen-writing profession - from Gene Gauntier's 1911 version of "Ben Hur" to Callie Khouri's "Thelma and Louise". It includes interviews with women working today - including Nora Ephron, Callie Khouri and Caroline Thompson - plus filmographies.

Print Book, English, 1994

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Publisher: BFI Publishers, London, 1994

Physical Description:[192] pages : 25 illustrations ; 23 cm

ISBN:

9780851704784, 9780851704777, 0851704786, 0851704778

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1101227889

Subjects:

Scénaristes

Screenwriters

Women in film

Contents:

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. 'No finer calling for a woman': The Silent Era 2. The Golden Ghetto: Working for the Studios in the 1930s and 1940s 3. Girl Talk: Writing the Woman's Picture 4. Taking More Control 5. Writing it Like a Man 6. Feminism Comes to Hollywood 7. Chipping Away in the Blockbuster Era 8. Some Current Case-studies Epilogue Hollywood's Year of the Woman and After Bibliography Filmography Index.