國立虎尾科技大學 |

The How-to Screenwriting Industry : = Reverse Encouragement, Gatekeeper Lore, and the Business of Professionalization.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The How-to Screenwriting Industry :/
Reminder of title:	Reverse Encouragement, Gatekeeper Lore, and the Business of Professionalization.
Author:	Twarog, Anthony.
Description:	1 online resource (259 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-02A.
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798380114684

The How-to Screenwriting Industry : = Reverse Encouragement, Gatekeeper Lore, and the Business of Professionalization.
Twarog, Anthony.

The How-to Screenwriting Industry :Reverse Encouragement, Gatekeeper Lore, and the Business of Professionalization. - 1 online resource (259 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

This dissertation examines the how-to screenwriting industry, which is the range of services and products created to profit from aspiring screenwriters. The industry is for many the most visible source of knowledge about what screenwriting is, what it can be, and who can participate. Moreover, the industry offers the most accessible, if not the most effective, paths to screenwriting careers for many aspirants. And yet, studies of the film industry have largely ignored the how-to screenwriting industry, alongside the range of how-to industries for other creative practices, because they exist on the apparent margins of industry. Putting those margins at the center of this dissertation, I argue that the how-to screenwriting industry is a significant instrument of power in the commercial film industry, one that serves primarily to mold nonprofessional screenwriters into more exploitable workers. Each chapter turns to a different set of participants in the how-to screenwriting industry in the United States over the last twenty years. Combining discourse analysis, textual analysis, historical analysis, and interviews, I examine screenwriting not as a profession nor an art form but as a popular practice whose boundaries, attributes, and place in the film industry are continually negotiated (and renegotiated) by screenwriting magazines (Chapter 1), for-profit degree programs (Chapter 2), blogs (Chapter 3), platforms (Chapter 4), and activist campaigns (Chapter 5), among others. Ultimately, I argue that the how-to screenwriting industry profits from its efforts to obscure systemic inequities in screenwriting, setting out to convince aspirants that its services are a reasonable downpayment for a fulfilling, if unlikely, career in a meritocratic industry that rewards the most malleable and persistent subjects. This dissertation interrogates the beliefs and practices promoted by the how-to screenwriting industry in an effort to carve out discursive space for screenwriting practices that resist or reimagine-not simply reproduce-media power.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380114684Subjects--Topical Terms:

556422
Communication.
Subjects--Index Terms:

AspirationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

The How-to Screenwriting Industry : = Reverse Encouragement, Gatekeeper Lore, and the Business of Professionalization.
LDR:03512ntm a22004097 4500 001 1148322
005 20240924101852.5
006 m o d
007 cr bn ---uuuuu
008 250605s2023 xx obm 000 0 eng d
020 $a 9798380114684
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI30635626
035 $a AAI30635626
040 $a MiAaPQ $b eng $c MiAaPQ $d NTU
100 1 $a Twarog, Anthony. $3 1474264
245 1 4 $a The How-to Screenwriting Industry : $b Reverse Encouragement, Gatekeeper Lore, and the Business of Professionalization.
264 0 $c 2023
300 $a 1 online resource (259 pages)
336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent
337 $a computer $b c $2 rdamedia
338 $a online resource $b cr $2 rdacarrier
500 $a Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: A.
500 $a Advisor: Johnson, Derek.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023.
504 $a Includes bibliographical references
520 $a This dissertation examines the how-to screenwriting industry, which is the range of services and products created to profit from aspiring screenwriters. The industry is for many the most visible source of knowledge about what screenwriting is, what it can be, and who can participate. Moreover, the industry offers the most accessible, if not the most effective, paths to screenwriting careers for many aspirants. And yet, studies of the film industry have largely ignored the how-to screenwriting industry, alongside the range of how-to industries for other creative practices, because they exist on the apparent margins of industry. Putting those margins at the center of this dissertation, I argue that the how-to screenwriting industry is a significant instrument of power in the commercial film industry, one that serves primarily to mold nonprofessional screenwriters into more exploitable workers. Each chapter turns to a different set of participants in the how-to screenwriting industry in the United States over the last twenty years. Combining discourse analysis, textual analysis, historical analysis, and interviews, I examine screenwriting not as a profession nor an art form but as a popular practice whose boundaries, attributes, and place in the film industry are continually negotiated (and renegotiated) by screenwriting magazines (Chapter 1), for-profit degree programs (Chapter 2), blogs (Chapter 3), platforms (Chapter 4), and activist campaigns (Chapter 5), among others. Ultimately, I argue that the how-to screenwriting industry profits from its efforts to obscure systemic inequities in screenwriting, setting out to convince aspirants that its services are a reasonable downpayment for a fulfilling, if unlikely, career in a meritocratic industry that rewards the most malleable and persistent subjects. This dissertation interrogates the beliefs and practices promoted by the how-to screenwriting industry in an effort to carve out discursive space for screenwriting practices that resist or reimagine-not simply reproduce-media power.
533 $a Electronic reproduction. $b Ann Arbor, Mich. : $c ProQuest, $d 2024
538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web
650 4 $a Communication. $3 556422
650 4 $a Mass communications. $3 1335238
650 4 $a Web studies. $3 1148502
653 $a Aspiration
653 $a Media industries
653 $a Media work
653 $a Paraindustry
653 $a Professionalization
653 $a Screenwriting
655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local $3 554714
690 $a 0459
690 $a 0708
690 $a 0646
710 2 $a ProQuest Information and Learning Co. $3 1178819
710 2 $a The University of Wisconsin - Madison. $b Communication Arts. $3 1179530
773 0 $t Dissertations Abstracts International $g 85-02A.
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30635626 $z click for full text (PQDT)