Inclusive Screenwriting for Film and Television by Jess King from Focal Press breaks down the traditional structures of screenplays in an innovative and progressive way, while also investigating the ways in which screenplays have been traditionally told. This book examines how screenplays can be written to reflect the diverse life experiences of real people. Author Jess King explores how existing paradigms of screenplays often exclude the very people watching films and TV today. Taking aspects such as characterization, screenplay structure, and world-building, King offers ways to ensure your screenplays are inclusive and allow for every person's story to be heard.
Introduction
Part One: Towards a Critique of Screenwriting
Chapter One: Screenplay Manuals and the Homogenization of the Imagination
Chapter Two: Reimagining Character
Chapter Three: Rethinking the Role of Conflict
Chapter Four: Changing the Narrative (Structure)
Chapter Five: On World-building
Part Two: Towards an Inclusive and Intersectional Practice of Screenwriting
Chapter Six: From Killing Eve to an Eve Who Kills
Chapter Seven: Queer and Trans World-Building in Sense8
Chapter Eight: The Explicit and Specific Politics of Vida
Chapter Nine: The Generative Power of Paradigm Destruction in I May Destroy You
Conclusion: A Way Forward
Index