1st Edition

Writing Women for Film & Television A Guide to Creating Complex Female Characters

By Anna Weinstein Copyright 2024
204 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

204 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is a detailed guide to creating complex female characters for film and television. Written for screen storytellers of any level, this book will help screenwriters and filmmakers recognize complicated portrayals of women on screen and evaluate the complexity of their own characters. Author Anna Weinstein provides a thorough analysis of key female characters in film and television,... Read more

1. She Is on Screen: Women’s Representation in Film & Television  2. She Comes of Age: Young Women  3. She Falls in Love: Smitten Women  4. She Climbs the Ladder: Working Women  5. She Cares for the Family: Nurturing Women  6. She Doesn’t Play by the Rules: "Mad" Women  7. She Sparks Change: Trailblazing Women  8. She Is Seen: Developing "Reel" Women

Biography

Anna Weinstein is a screenwriter and educator based in Atlanta. She is on the screenwriting faculty in the English Department at Kennesaw State University (KSU), where she teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Anna is founding editor of the PERFORM: Succeeding as a Creative Professional book series (Routledge) and the Screen Storytellers book series.  

“This book has been needed for such a long time – what a pleasure now that it exists to find it’s so much better than we had any right to expect. Warm, wise, and generous, Weinstein is the screenwriting teacher we all wish we had.” 

William Rabkin, author of Writing the Pilot