"This Class Will Change Your Writing Life" Hollywood's Screenwriting Gurus in Paris and Their Public
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13 septembre 2018
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Moviemaking Film-making (Motion pictures) Motion picture plays--Authorship Moving-picture authorship Screenplay writing Film scriptwriting Motion picture writing Motion picture scriptwriting Screen writing Movie-making Scriptwriting, Motion picture Scriptwriting, Film Motion pictures--Play-writing Film authorship Screenwriting Filmmaking (Motion pictures)Citer ce document
Séverine Sofio et al., « "This Class Will Change Your Writing Life" Hollywood's Screenwriting Gurus in Paris and Their Public », HAL-SHS : sociologie, ID : 10670/1.usx3c1
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The starting premise of this paper is that 'learning how to write' is still perceived in a very different way in France and in the United States. In this perspective, we want to interrogate the current state of the TV/movie industry in France. In fact, we assume that French TV/movie professionals tend to take part to the screenwriting masterclasses of some of the most famous American script-doctors (aka the "Screenwriting Gurus" as they were called in a LA Review of Books' paper a few years ago) because of a certain professional frustration, to which they feel that the masterclass could be a solution. The purpose of our enquiry was therefore to explore what causes this frustration and why/how “Hollywood” (i.e. the teaching offered by the masterclass) could solve it.