1st Edition
Screenwriting With a Conscience Ethics for Screenwriters
By Marilyn Beker
Copyright 2004
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
266 Pages
by
Routledge
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Screenwriting With a Conscience: Ethics for Screenwriters is for screenwriters who care deeply about what they write; who are aware that movie images matter and can influence audiences; and who want to create meaningful screenplays that make powerful statements while entertaining and winning over audiences. A user-friendly guide to ethical screenwriting, this book makes the case that social... Read more
Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Why? Ethics? For Screenwriters? Message and Meaning. The Certainty of Why. Social Responsibility. What's Art Got to Do With It? Part II: The Certainty of What: Anything Goes? A Glimpse of Stocking. Something Shocking. Where Have All the Elders Gone? Conscience. Part III: What Really Matters. What It's Worth. The Good, the Bad, the Blurry. Nothing Left to Chance. Part IV: White Hats, Black Hats. White Hats, Black Hats. Good. Bad. The Villanero. Practical Writing Techniques. Angelic Acts, Dastardly Deeds. Crime and Punishment. Special Circumstances. Part V: Killing the Messenger. No Sermons. Words of Wisdom. Part VI: Having Written and Writing More. What's the Idea? All's Fair in Love, War, and Showbiz? Courage. Conclusion.
Biography
Marilyn Beker
"Wise and urgent advice to young screenwriters from a committed and passionate teacher. Beker speaks with years of experience and a great generosity of spirit."
—Atom Egoyan
Writer/Director, Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter, Ararat"This text would be appropriate for courses in fundamentals of screenwriting but also, perhaps especially, for critical studies and film theory and history courses. Given the vast public attention to this subject, I should think this could be a crossover book that appeals to audiences beyond the academy."
—Richard Walter
University of California at Los Angeles
