Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting

Women Who Write Our Worlds

Rose Ferrell, Rosanne Welch (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

528 Seiten

2025
Intellect Books (Verlag)
9781835951590 (ISBN)

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Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds is a powerful testament to the undeniable impact of an international collection of female screenwriters. Spanning film, television, virtual reality, games, and digital media, these case studies showcase instances when women have used screenwriting to challenge injustice and give voice to communities across the globe.

Acknowledging global disparities in wealth and power, the book exposes screenwriting as activism, which shifts attitudes and alters lived experiences. Whether about gender and race or war and colonization, or other serious issues, each chapter reveals the deep connections between storytelling and social change.

More than just a study of the craft, this is a celebration of the women writers who use their artistic lens to educate and empower others.

Geared toward readers interested in screenwriting, media studies, sociology, women’s studies, and a wide range of humanities subjects, including history and population studies, this book brings long-overdue attention to the vital role women take in shaping global cultural landscapes.

Rose Ferrell is a writer-filmmaker and researcher with experience both as a technician on long-form drama and documentary, and as a lecturer-trainer with students of all ages. Her work can be found in the Palgrave Handbooks, the Journal of Screenwriting, and assorted other publications. Rosanne Welch is a television writer and university professor of Humanities in the IGE Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA; and is the Executive Director of the MFA in TV and Screenwriting for Stephens College.

List of Figures

Introduction – Rose Ferrell

SECTION ONE: AFRICAN WORLDS

African Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell

1. Differently abled and definitely able: Resilience and inspiration in the films and life of Zambia’s Musola Catherine Kaseketi – Elastus Mambwe

2. We aren’t all cis straight white men: Expanding depictions of autism – Karen Jeynes

3. Voicing our opinion: Challenges of female rap artists in north-west Nigeria – Ummi Muhammad Hassan

SECTION TWO: AMERICAN WORLDS

American Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell

4. The first female filmmaker in Central America: Patricia Howell, on a life of defending women’s rights and pioneering national cinema in Costa Rica – Aarón Acuña Cordero

5. Marta Rodriguez: Documentary films with social impact – Sara Manuela Duque García

6. Violence and fire in Latin American women’s scripts: Tatiana Huezo (Prayers for the Stolen, 2021, Mexico) and Claudia Huaiquimilla (My Brothers Dream Awake, 2021, Chile) – Juan Carlos Carrillo, Sebastian Gonzalez

7. How nice to see us alive: Memory, trauma and resistance in scripting How Nice to See You Alive (1989, Brazil) – Lara Caravalho

8. The screenwriting process of Anna Muylaert’s film The Second Mother (2015, Brazil) over 20 years: In search of a different ending for the female characters – Patricia Dourado, Mirian Tavares

SECTION THREE: ASIAN WORLDS

Asian Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell

9. Afia Nathaniel and Pakistani minor cinema: The Amazon of the screen – Azam Sarwar

10. The ‘invisible’ in The Way We Are (2008, Hong Kong): The scriptwriter, the script, the everyday, and the audience – Ian Fong

11. Young-Ah Yoo’s controversial adaptation of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (2019, South Korea): A response to the South Korean #MeToo movement – Thomas Carter

SECTION FOUR: ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLDS

English-speaking Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell

12. 'This is a true story': Women artists and narratives of disability in Ida Lupino’s Never Fear (1950, USA) – Gabrielle Stecher

13. How to perceive Cassie Thornton? The translation of blindness in Perception (2017, USA) – Polly Ellen Goodwin
14. Exploring homelessness in virtual reality documentary: The scripting of Rose Troche’s We Live Here (2020, USA) – Kath Dooley

15. Catherine Hill: Women who write our worlds – shaping global screen culture with Some Happy Day (2021, Australia) – Joanne Tindale

16. Rewriting Australia’s colonial mythologies: Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (2021, Australia) – Andrew James Couzens

17. Bluey worlds (2018 – 23, Australia) – Andi Spark

18. Miranda July’s Kajillionaire (2020, USA) and queer utopias – Angie Black and Anna Dzenis

19. Young women who write: Little Women (2019) – Armando Fumagalli

20. Pan-Asian storytelling for Aotearoa New Zealand screens – Ghazaleh Gol, Shuchi Kothari

SECTION FIVE: EUROPEAN WORLDS

European Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell

21. Exploring war’s trauma through a feminist lens: Resilient women in the films of Jasmila Žbanić – Bruno Lovric and Miriam Hernandez

22. Desire-driven filmmaking: Celine Sciamma and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, France) – Philippa Burne and Angie Black
23. A Trial for Rape (1979, Italy): The transformative power of the female gaze – Milly Buonanno

SECTION SIX: ISLAND WORLDS

Island Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell

24. Malu tatau: Rite of passage for women’s empowerment – Agapetos Aia-Fa’aleava and Vaoiva Natapu-Ponton

25. Island Time (2022): Cultural revival in the Mariana Islands – Rose Ferrell

26. Island women use screenwriting in music videos to lead the campaign for global-level climate action – Rosanne Welch

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	27.08.2025
Zusatzinfo	35 Halftones, black and white
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Gewicht	1039 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781835951590 / 9781835951590
Zustand	Neuware