- Provides aspiring screenwriters and filmmakers with a solid understanding of what makes for an authentic screen character and provides them with tools they can use to evaluate the complexity of their own characters, so they can begin drawing their own female characters with confidence.
- Features interviews with acclaimed international female screenwriters and directors, detailing their perspectives on the relevance of women's screen stories, the writing and development processes of these stories, and the challenges in getting female characters to the screen.
- Includes statistics for onscreen and off-screen female representation in cinema, as well as a review of current research regarding social and cultural effects of misrepresentation and lack of representation.

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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

Book Information
ISBN 9780367254018
Author Anna Weinstein
Format Paperback
Page Count 204
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd