Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Towards a Critique of Screenwriting
Chapter One: Screenplay Manuals and the Homogenization of the Imagination
Chapter Two: Reimagining Character
Chapter Three: Rethinking the Role of Conflict
Chapter Four: Changing the Narrative (Structure)
Chapter Five: On World-building
Part Two: Towards an Inclusive and Intersectional Practice of Screenwriting
Chapter Six: From Killing Eve to an Eve Who Kills
Chapter Seven: Queer and Trans World-Building in Sense8
Chapter Eight: The Explicit and Specific Politics of Vida
Chapter Nine: The Generative Power of Paradigm Destruction in I May Destroy You
Conclusion: A Way Forward
Index
Biography
Jess King is an Instructor of Screenwriting and Cinema Production at DePaul University, USA. Jess is an educator, scholar, and interdisciplinary filmmaker, teaching courses in screenwriting, independent television, and film analysis. King’s creative scholarship revolves around frameworks for reimagining screenwriting for inclusion and social justice.
'King’s book is a revolutionary cry to dismantle the screenwriting patriarchy and decolonialize the craft of the screenplay once and for all. None of the old gurus are spared as King meticulously demonstrates how the rarely-contradicted rules of professional screenwriting are ideologically rooted in the oppression of historically excluded voices.'
Andrew Gay, Southern Oregon University
