Overview

The voices of women changing the world one script at a time speak to how screenwriting is more than a craft—it's activism, education, and revolution. Shaping Global Culture through Screenwriting is a powerful testament to the undeniable impact of an international collection of female screenwriters. Spanning film, television, virtual reality, games, and digital media, these case studies showcase instances when women filmmakers used screenwriting to challenge injustice and give voice to communities around the world. Divided into sections that seek to overcome global disparities in wealth and power, the book views screenwriting as activism, shifting attitudes, and altering lived experiences. Whether about gender and race or war and colonization, each chapter exposes the deep connections between storytelling and social change. More than just a study of the craft, this book is a celebration of the women writers who use their artistic lens to educate and empower others. Geared toward readers interested in screenwriting, media studies, sociology, women's studies, and a wide range of humanities subjects, including history and population studies, Shaping Global Culture through Screenwriting brings long-overdue attention to the vital role women take in shaping the global cultural landscape.

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Author:   Rose Ferrell (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) ,  Rosanne Welch (Stephens College, USA)
Publisher:   Intellect
Imprint:   Intellect Books
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.039kg
ISBN:  

9781835951590

ISBN 10:   1835951597
Pages:   528
Publication Date:   29 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  

Table of Contents

Introduction  Rose Ferrell   AFRICAN WORLDS  African Worlds Section Introduction  Rose Ferrell   Differently abled and Definitely able: Resilience and inspiration in the Films and Life of Zambia’s Musola Catherine Kaseketi Elastus Mambwe   We Aren’t All Cis Straight White Men: Expanding Depictions of Autism Karen Jeynes   Challenges of female rap artists in North-West Nigeria Ummee Muhammad Hassan   AMERICAN WORLDS  American Worlds Section Introduction  Rose Ferrell   The First Female Filmmaker in Costa Rica: Patricia Howell, On a Life Of Defending Women’s Rights and Pioneering National Cinema in Central America Aaron Acuna   Marta Rodriguez: Documentary Films with Social Impact Sara Duque Garcia   Tatiana Huezo (Prayers for the Stolen, 2021, Mexico) and Claudia Huaiquimilla (My Brothers Dream Awake, 2021, Chile): indigenous roots, fire, and violence in Latin American women's cinema Sebastian Gonzalez Juan Carlos Carrillo   How Nice To See Us Alive: Memory, trauma and resistance in How Nice to See You Alive (1989, Brasil) Lara Caravalho   Screenwriting practices to write the world: Anna Muylaert's creation process in search of another ending for the female characters in The Second Mother (2015, Brasil) Patricia Dourado Mirian Tavares   ASIAN WORLDS Asian Worlds Section Introduction Rose Ferrell   Afia Nathaniel and Pakistani Minor Cinema: Amazon of the Screen Azar Sarwar   The ‘Invisible’ in The Way We Are (2008, Hong Kong): The Scriptwriter, the Script, the Everyday, and the Audience Ian Fong   Young-Ah Yoo’s Controversial Adaptation of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (2019, South Korea): A Response to the South Korean MeToo Movement Thomas Carter   ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLDS English-speaking Worlds Section Introduction Rose Ferrell   “This is a true story”: Women Artists and Narratives of Disability in Ida Lupino’s Never Fear (1950, USA) Gabrielle Stecher   How to perceive Cassie Thornton?: the translation of blindness in Perception (2017, USA) Polly Goodwin   Exploring homelessness in virtual reality documentary: the scripting of Rose Troche’s We Live Here (2020, USA) Kath Dooley   Catherine Hill,: screenwriter, dramaturg, homelessness crisis worker: a woman who changes the world Joanne Tindale   Rewriting Australia’s Colonial Mythologies – Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson  (2021, Aust) Andrew Couzens   The Prevalence Of Women in the Making of the Worlds of the Beloved Bluey (2018 – , Aust) Andi Spark   Miranda July’s Kajillionaire (2020, USA) and queer utopias Angie Black Anna Dzenis   Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (2019, USA): An very personal and intimate inspiration for a worldwide success Armando Fumagalli   Browning the Screen: pan-Asian representation on New Zealand Screens in the works of Shuchi Kothari Ghazaleh Gol  Shuchi Kothari   EUROPEAN WORLDS  European Worlds Section Introduction Rose Ferrell   Resilient Femininity and Trauma: Healing from War in Jasmila Zbanic’s Film Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020, Bosnia-Herzogovina) Bruno Lovric Miriam Hernandez   Desire-driven Filmmaking: Celine Sciamma and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, France) Philippa Burne Angie Black   Processso per stupor (A Trial for rape 1979, Italy): The transformative power of the female gaze. Milly Buonanno   ISLAND WORLDS Island Worlds Section Introduction Rose Ferrell   Pasifika Tatau/Tattoos: Culture/ Malu Represented Agapetos Aia-Faʻaleava Vaoiva Natapu-Ponton Marquart   Island Time Rose Ferrell   Island Women Screen Write In Music Videos For Global-Level Climate Action  Rosanne Welch

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Rose Ferrell is a writer-filmmaker and researcher with experience both as a technician on long-form drama and documentary, and as a lecturer-trainer with students of all ages. Her work can be found in the Palgrave Handbooks, the Journal of Screenwriting, and assorted other publications. Rosanne Welch is a television writer and university professor of Humanities in the IGE Department at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA; and is the Executive Director of the MFA in TV and Screenwriting for Stephens College.

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