Women Screenwriters An International Guide
Edited By Jill Nelmes and Jule Selbo
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"At last there is a comprehensive book dedicated to the female voice in film - internationally heralded women screenwriters and also those whose work may have been forgotten or unacknowledged beyond the borders of their own countries. It is an inspirational document for all female storytellers, wherever they may be in their careers, to know that they are part of a tribe with such deep roots globally. It is at the same time an extraordinary social history that will be of great interest to anyone passionate about filmmaking. It's time that the curtain to be lifted on female screenwriters! This book has been compiled and written with thoroughness and insight. It is a gift to the archives of film history."
- Kathryn Himoff - film editor and producer of features, television, documentaries: Man in the High Castle (2015), Pollock (2000), Appaloosa (2008), Georgia O'Keefe (2009), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005), The Office (2005), Ugly Betty (2006), Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2002) and more.

"A remarkable accomplishment! Women Screenwriters transforms both global film history and women's history. Jill Nelmes and Jule Selbo have provided a treasure-trove of information and analysis that should lead to discoveries about all national cinemas and the creativity of women worldwide."
- Janet Staiger - film theoretician and historian and William P. Hobby Centennial Professor at University of Texas, Austin, author of Media Reception Studies (2005), Perverse Spectators (2000), Bad Women: Regulating Sexuality in Early Cinema (1995) and more.

About the book
Women Screenwriters is a study of more than 300 female writers from 60 nations, from the first film scenarios produced in 1896 to the present day. An overview is given of the history and background of women screenwriters in each nation and the challenges they faced. Individual entries illuminate the work of many of the most influential women writers. The scope and range of the book is far beyond any existing coverage of the subject. The volume is divided into six sections by continent: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America and South America, and includes detailed coverage of female screenwriters from the United States, United Kingdom, France and Australia as well as nations such as Malta, Romania, South Africa, Russia and Switzerland. The volume is a rich resource and investigates the rarely discussed tradition of female screenwriting across the globe.
960 pp

Jill Nelmes is Reader in Film at the University of East London, UK. She is the author of The Screenwriter in British Cinema (2014), Writing the Screenplay (2012), the editor of An Introduction to Film Studies (2012) and Analysing the Screenplay (2010), and the founder of the Journal of Screenwriting. She studied screenwriting at UCLA, has been a script reader in Hollywood, and has had a number of feature length screenplays in development.
Jule Selbo, Professor in the MFA in Screenwriting program at California State University, Fullerton, USA, is an award-winning American playwright and screenwriter with work in feature film, animation and television. She has worked with filmmakers such as George Lucas and at all the major Hollywood studios. She is co-editor of the Journal of Screenwriting and has written three books for the screenwriter: The Rewrite: First Draft to Marketplace (2008), Screenwriting: Building Story Through Character (2015) and Film Genre for the Screenwriter (2015) as well as multiple contributions to books and journals on film genre and screenwriting history. She lectures and conducts seminars on screenwriting around the world.

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