Screenwriting : Creative Labor and Professional Practice (Hardcover)

Introduction: Setting the ‘scene’  1. Screenwriting histories and myths of the profession  2. Screenwriting as creative labor  3. Screenwriters’ working lives  4. Screenwriting work and the how-to genre  5. Screenwriting work ? who’s in and who’s out?  Conclusion: Screenwriting as good work  Appendix One: How-to titles and authors  Appendix Two: Indicative publishing information for five ‘guru’ how-to texts  Bibliography