Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting

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.

• List of FiguresIntroduction – Rose FerrellSECTION ONE: AFRICAN WORLDSAfrican Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell 1. Differently abled and definitely able: Resilience and inspiration in the films and life of Zambia’s Musola Catherine Kaseketi – Elastus Mambwe2. We aren’t all cis straight white men: Expanding depictions of autism – Karen Jeynes3. Voicing our opinion: Challenges of female rap artists in north-west Nigeria – Ummi Muhammad HassanSECTION TWO: AMERICAN WORLDSAmerican Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell4. The first female filmmaker in Central America: Patricia Howell, on a life of defending women’s rights and pioneering national cinema in Costa Rica – Aarón Acuña Cordero5. Marta Rodriguez: Documentary films with social impact – Sara Manuela Duque García 6. Violence and fire in Latin American women’s scripts: Tatiana Huezo (Prayers for the Stolen, 2021, Mexico) and Claudia Huaiquimilla (My Brothers Dream Awake, 2021, Chile) – Juan Carlos Carrillo, Sebastian Gonzalez7. How nice to see us alive: Memory, trauma and resistance in scripting How Nice to See You Alive (1989, Brazil) – Lara Caravalho8. The screenwriting process of Anna Muylaert’s film The Second Mother (2015, Brazil) over 20 years: In search of a different ending for the female characters – Patricia Dourado, Mirian TavaresSECTION THREE: ASIAN WORLDSAsian Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell9. Afia Nathaniel and Pakistani minor cinema: The Amazon of the screen – Azam Sarwar10. The ‘invisible’ in The Way We Are (2008, Hong Kong): The scriptwriter, the script, the everyday, and the audience – Ian Fong11. Young-Ah Yoo’s controversial adaptation of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (2019, South Korea): A response to the South Korean #MeToo movement – Thomas CarterSECTION FOUR: ENGLISH-SPEAKING WORLDSEnglish-speaking Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell12. 'This is a true story': Women artists and narratives of disability in Ida Lupino’s Never Fear (1950, USA) – Gabrielle Stecher13. How to perceive Cassie Thornton? The translation of blindness in Perception (2017, USA) – Polly Ellen Goodwin14. Exploring homelessness in virtual reality documentary: The scripting of Rose Troche’s We Live Here (2020, USA) – Kath Dooley15. Catherine Hill: Women who write our worlds – shaping global screen culture with Some Happy Day (2021, Australia) – Joanne Tindale16. Rewriting Australia’s colonial mythologies: Leah Purcell’s The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson (2021, Australia) – Andrew James Couzens17. Bluey worlds (2018 – 23, Australia) – Andi Spark18. Miranda July’s Kajillionaire (2020, USA) and queer utopias – Angie Black and Anna Dzenis19. Young women who write: Little Women (2019) – Armando Fumagalli20. Pan-Asian storytelling for Aotearoa New Zealand screens – Ghazaleh Gol, Shuchi KothariSECTION FIVE: EUROPEAN WORLDSEuropean Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell21. Exploring war’s trauma through a feminist lens: Resilient women in the films of Jasmila Žbanić – Miriam Hernandez and Bruno Lovric22. Desire-driven filmmaking: Celine Sciamma and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019, France) – Philippa Burne and Angie Black23. A Trial for Rape (1979, Italy): The transformative power of the female gaze – Milly BuonannoSECTION SIX: ISLAND WORLDSIsland Worlds: Section introduction – Rose Ferrell24. Malu tatau: Rite of passage for women’s empowerment – Agapetos Aia-Fa’aleava and Vaoiva Natapu-Ponton 25. Island Time (2022): Cultural revival in the Mariana Islands – Rose Ferrell26. Island women use screenwriting in music videos to lead the campaign for global-level climate action – Rosanne WelchNotes on ContributorsIndex