Rosanne Welch, PhD

  Read Lois Weber: More than a Writer-Director She's the Auteur Activist of Early Cinema  Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: From Silent Murder Mysteries to Andy Hardy's Americana, Agnes Christine Johnston Wrote it All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2024 Her Career Outlasted the Hays Code: Kathryn Scola – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2025 Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2024

Read Her Career Outlasted the Hays Code: Kathryn Scola Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2024 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 From Silents to Talkies to TV Lenore J. Coffee Did It All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2023

In the decade between 1924 and 1934 Zelda Sears earned credits on over 27 films for everything from having one of her plays adapted to adapting her own theatrical scripts to writing original scripts directly for the screen. Born Zelda Paldi in 1873 in Brockway Township, Michigan she made her way to Broadway as an … Continue reading "Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2025" Related posts: So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 From Silent Murder Mysteries to Andy Hardy's Americana, Agnes Christine Johnston Wrote it All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2024

Born on Christmas Day in 1876 in Massachusetts, Dix and her family lived in various cities around the historic state until she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to study English and History at Radcliffe College. There she became the first female to be granted the Sohier Literary Prize, for the best thesis of a Harvard or … Continue reading "Meet Beulah Marie Dix: Award-Winning Scholar and Anti-War Novelist Turned Screenwriter – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2025" Related posts: From Silents to Talkies to TV Lenore J. Coffee Did It All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2023 Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024

  The surname DeMille (or de Mille) brings up thoughts of the famous line from Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler's Sunset Boulevard “Mr. de Mille, I'm ready for my close up” which references silent screen director Cecil. Perhaps people remember his brother, William, who started as a playwright and became a Hollywood director and joined … Continue reading "Writer, Producer, Agent and Mentor (And Mom to the DeMille Boys) – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, December 2024" Related posts: Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 From Silents to Talkies to TV Lenore J. Coffee Did It All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2023 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024

Read From Silent Murder Mysteries to Andy Hardy's Americana, Agnes Christine Johnston Wrote it All Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2024

At San Diego Who Con 2024 (https://www.sdwhocon.com/), I enjoyed lecturing on “From Shakespeare to Shelley or Dante to Dickens: The Literary References Who Has Introduced You To!”.  I first thought of it while watching an episode with my favorite classic Doctor Peter Davison. I heard a line that was so specific I thought that it … Continue reading "The Literary References Doctor Who Has Introduced You To With Dr. Rosanne Welch– San Diego Who Con 2024 [Video]" Related posts: Dr. Rosanne Welch Speaks at the 2021 Stephens College MFA in TV & Screenwriting Commencement [Video] 06 TV After The Monkees from “Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (53 seconds) 02 Why Study Women Screenwriters from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]

With the conference theme “A Conversation Beyond Script,” I decided to use my presentation time to “Celebrate the Daring Dialogue of Women Writers,” which allowed me to introduce the audience to the work of famous female screenwriters, from Anita Loos to Mae West to Lillian Hellman.  Then I delved into some names lesser-known to our … Continue reading "Celebrate the Daring Dialogue of Women Writers with Dr. Rosanne Welch – Screenwriting Research Network Conference 2004, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czechia" Related posts: 10 Fuller and Italian Reunification from Concord Days: Margaret Fuller in Italy [Video] 01 Introduction From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video] 03 Managed Chaos from How The Chaos Of Collaboration in the Writers Room Created Golden Age Television [Video]

Read She Co-Wrote ‘The Maltese Falcon’ But You've Never Heard Her Name  Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2024

I always say I could talk about The Monkees all day – or at least for an hour, which is what I just had the privilege of doing with Joe Russo of The Monkees Pad on YouTube. It's especially fun to talk with folks like Joe, who know The Monkees so well – both the … Continue reading "The Monkees Pad Show – Ep 15- MONKEES MASTER CLASS – Why The Monkees Matter with Rosanne Welch and JoeR [Podcast]" Related posts: Drs. Rosanne Welch and Sarah Clark discuss The Monkees “One Man Shy” episode on the Zilch Podcast’s Monkees 101 Series  13 The Amityville Horror from When Women Write Horror with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (32 seconds) Drs. Rosanne Welch and Dr. Sarah Clark discuss The Monkees “I've Got a Little Song Here” episode on the Zilch Podcast’s Monkees 101 Series [Audio]

Read Serial Queen Ruth Ann Baldwin Knew How to Craft a Cliffhanger Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2024

Read Adapting Classic Novels Not the Only Tool in her Kit: Silent Screenwriter Dorothy Farnum  Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 Screenwriting Research Network Conversation #2 – Memories of Our Previous International Conferences [Video]

Read  Where's Her Museum? Betty Burbage Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2024

Read From High School Teaching to Writing the First Screenwriting Bible: Marguerite Bertsch Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2024 Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024

Many thanks to SRN member Romana Turina for inviting me to give an online seminar on the benefits of Flipping Your Classroom for the Working Group on Comparative Screenwriting in the Screenwriting Research Network that she leads. Every month she presents and records a guest lecture for our membership that is then open to the … Continue reading "Flipping Your Classroom with Dr. Rosanne Welch – Screenwriting Research Network Working Group on Comparative Screenwriting [Video]" Related posts: Quotes from When Women Wrote Hollywood – 45 in a series – Nick and Nora 05 Women and Westerns from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video] Mackenzie Institute In Sao Paolo via Instagram

  Read Hobnobbing with Her Fellow Writers (and Wizards) Across the Decades – The Screenwriting Career of Florence Ryerson Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, March 2024

Read Writing Successful Films into her 60s? Zelda Sears Did It! Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2024 From Silents to Talkies to TV Lenore J. Coffee Did It All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2023

Read So Much More than Merely Her Chocolate Cake Recipe Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, January 2024 From Silents to Talkies to TV Lenore J. Coffee Did It All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2023 03 What Price Hollywood from “Female Creatives & A Star Is Born” with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]

Read Between Broadway and Hollywood: The Screenwriting Career of Ketty Frings Read about more women from early Hollywood   Related posts: From Silents to Talkies to TV Lenore J. Coffee Did It All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2023 03 What Price Hollywood from “Female Creatives & A Star Is Born” with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] Dr. Rosanne Welch and Rashaan Dozier-Escalante Speak On on Writing as Activism [Video]

  Though she never wrote a horror film, to celebrate Halloween this month's focus is screenwriter, poet, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Zoe Akins, born on October 30, 1886. In 1935 Akins would become the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the highest honor for a Broadway play in the United States, after … Continue reading "Before Peanuts, Alice Guy Blaché Presented the First True Meaning of Christmas Film – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, December 2023" Related posts: From Silents to Talkies to TV Lenore J. Coffee Did It All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2023 Applications Now Open – Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting for Fall 2024 Rosanne Writes on Doctor Who, “The King’s Demons”, and more in the new book, Outside In Regenerates [Books]

Though she never wrote a horror film, to celebrate Halloween this month's focus is screenwriter, poet, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Zoe Akins, born on October 30, 1886. In 1935 Akins would become the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the highest honor for a Broadway play in the United States, after Zona … Continue reading "From Silents to Talkies to TV Lenore J. Coffee Did It All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, November 2023" Related posts: Applications Now Open – Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting for Fall 2024 46 Screenwriting Mistakes: Write Something New… from Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast [Video] Dr. Rosanne Welch and Rashaan Dozier-Escalante Speak On on Writing as Activism [Video]

In this presentation given at the 2023 San Diego WhoCon I talked about what really happened at Pompeii on volcano day; the agricultural knowledge of the Aztecs; when Robin Hood began appearing in literature, and the bravery of Noor Inayat Khan and Rosa Parks. Transcript: What we’re talking about today is the real history behind … Continue reading "02 Early History Episodes from The Real History Behind the Historic Episodes of Doctor Who with Dr. Rosanne Welch – SD Who Con 2023" Related posts: 01 Introduction from The Real History Behind the Historic Episodes of Doctor Who with Dr. Rosanne Welch – SD Who Con 2023 Poems, Plays, Pulitzers: Screenwriter Zoe Akins Did it All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, October 2023 PRESS: Screenwriters and academics converge on Stephens College for international conference, Columbia Tribune, Columbia, Missouri

In this presentation given at the 2023 San Diego WhoCon I talked about what really happened at Pompeii on volcano day; the agricultural knowledge of the Aztecs; when Robin Hood began appearing in literature, and the bravery of Noor Inayat Khan and Rosa Parks. Transcript: well welcome everybody very nice to see everybody um I’m … Continue reading "01 Introduction from The Real History Behind the Historic Episodes of Doctor Who with Dr. Rosanne Welch – SD Who Con 2023" Related posts: PRESS: Screenwriters and academics converge on Stephens College for international conference, Columbia Tribune, Columbia, Missouri 05 Interesting Women Screenwriters? from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch and Intellect Books [Video] 35 Finding The Time To Write…from Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast [Video]

Though she never wrote a horror film, to celebrate Halloween this month's focus is screenwriter, poet, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Zoe Akins, born on October 30, 1886. In 1935 Akins would become the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the highest honor for a Broadway play in the United States, after Zona … Continue reading "Poems, Plays, Pulitzers: Screenwriter Zoe Akins Did it All – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, October 2023" Related posts: When Women Wrote Hollywood: The Movies – 8 in a series – Blue Jeans (1917) Wr: June Mathis Dr. Rosanne Welch and Rashaan Dozier-Escalante Speak On on Writing as Activism [Video] 46 Screenwriting Mistakes: Write Something New… from Worry and Wonder | The Courier Thirteen Podcast [Video]

If you love seeing dinosaurs come to life on screen and you think they first appeared on screen in Jurassic Park, think again. In 1926 renowned screenwriter-director Marion Fairfax adapted Arthur Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World to the screen complete with the most advanced special effects of the time. It was an amazing feat … Continue reading "Marion Fairfax Put Dinosaurs on Film Before Spielberg or Crichton Were Born – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, September 2023" Related posts: Dr. Rosanne Welch and Rashaan Dozier-Escalante Speak On on Writing as Activism [Video] 23 The importance of A Voice in the Room There And Back Again: Writing and Developing for American TV [Video] 03 What Price Hollywood from “Female Creatives & A Star Is Born” with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]

While I was on the Stephens College campus a couple of weeks ago for the Screenwriting Research Network conference I had the pleasure of appearing on the She Served, Too radio show hosted by Elizabeth Herrera. A military veteran, Herrera also runs the Stephens College Mission Promise Kept program. Together we spoke about the many … Continue reading "Dr. Rosanne Welch Interview – She Served Too, KOPN FM, Columbia, Missouri [Audio]" Related posts: 18 The Heroine’s Journey from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video] 20 More On Russell T Davies from There And Back Again: Writing and Developing for American TV [Video] 05 Even More On Suso Cecchi d’Amico From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]

I was quite honored when Script Magazine editor Sadie Dean asked me to write a monthly column giving short biographies of female screenwriters across the decades – those who came before us as I like to say – so imagine how shocked I was to find out this is my 30th one to date. Meet … Continue reading "Married Immigrants Mock Shakespeare for Movie Fame – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, August 2023" Related posts: 03 What Price Hollywood from “Female Creatives & A Star Is Born” with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 06 Longevity from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] Dr. Rosanne Welch Guests on Women in Film & Video DC Oscar Panel Podcast [Audio]

On Friday, May 5th I had the honor of delivering the commencement speech at the 2023 Stephens College Commencement Ceremony for Graduate & Continuing Studies as part of having received the Distinguished Faculty Award for the year. The full commencement ceremonies for the 2023 Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting include speeches by MFA student … Continue reading "Commencement Speaker, Dr. Rosanne Welch Speaks On “Female Role Models from ’70’s TV” at the Stephens College Graduate Commencement 2023" Related posts: Where’s Her Movie? Gymnast, Dianne Durham – 22 In A Series 33 Terence Winter and Boardwalk Empire from There And Back Again: Writing and Developing for American TV [Video] Watch Dr. Rosanne Welch on What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video] (27 minutes)

Transcript: Since that other, of course, shows have exploded more. We were talking with some folks the other day about these guys but you start with “Inspector Morse” which again was on PBS in the 70s and then that became the spin-off of “Lewis”. So “Lewis” who is the original assistant now becomes the head … Continue reading "14 Inspector Morse, Young and Old from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]" Related posts: 07 Conventions from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 12 Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and Doctor Who from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 13 Bless Their Little Hearts From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]

Transcript: We tend to forget that actors are sometimes also writers. The same thing happens when I teach something with Emma Thompson. She wrote Sense and Sensibility and then won the Oscar for that and people don’t realize that. She wrote The Nanny McPhee movies. So she adapted the books into film and also starred … Continue reading "13 Writing and Acting Crossovers from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]" Related posts: 12 Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and Doctor Who from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 07 Conventions from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] Anita Loos: An Introduction with Dr. Rosanne Welch, Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting and the Retroformat Silent Film Society [Video]

Transcript: As we know Downton Abbey became this huge explosive again filmed in England is a very culturally English story with an English cast and that has a Doctor Who connection because Hugh Bonneville shows up after that on Doctor Who. That’s how powerful now Doctor Who is this worldwide let me see let me … Continue reading "12 Downton Abbey, Sherlock, and Doctor Who from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]" Related posts: 07 Conventions from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] Edna Anhalt, Hidden in Her Husband's Shadow Despite Her Academy Award – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2023 13 Bless Their Little Hearts From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]

Transcript: Then the fact that you simulcast the newest Doctor. Simulcast because as we got it we always knew the show aired at this hour and you got it and then you had to wait eight hours to see it here etc. Then they realized no that audience with the internet and the explosion of … Continue reading "11 Globalizing The Story from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]" Related posts: 07 Conventions from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 13 Bless Their Little Hearts From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video] Watch Panel: Anatomy of a Meet Cute: Writing Romantic Comedies – WGA Foundation – Hosted by Dr. Rosanne Welch. Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting

Transcript: Then we rebooted “Doctor Who” and even in the David era it was getting there because David was known from “Harry Potter” so there’s a fandom there that’s bringing it together but it was this moment when they debuted Matt – they were like okay we are gonna make a push in the United … Continue reading "10 Doctor Who in Hollywood from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]" Related posts: 07 Conventions from The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] Edna Anhalt, Hidden in Her Husband's Shadow Despite Her Academy Award – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, February 2023 Anita Loos: An Introduction with Dr. Rosanne Welch, Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting and the Retroformat Silent Film Society [Video]

In this presentation given at the 2022 San Diego WhoCon I had the chance to trace the many ways Doctor Who changed the TV universe. By focusing on the interesting and innovative things the many writers did with the show across the years we were able to see the Who footprint by becoming the first … Continue reading "The Doctor Who Changed the TV Universe (Full Presentation) – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]" Related posts: 08 Ianto Jones from Why Torchwood Still Matters with Dr. Rosanne Welch, San Diego Who Con 2021 [Video] 05 Russell T Davies from Why Torchwood Still Matters with Dr. Rosanne Welch, San Diego Who Con 2021 [Video] 06 Captain Jack Harkness from Why Torchwood Still Matters with Dr. Rosanne Welch, San Diego Who Con 2021 [Video]

Transcript: …and then we get you know Marty gets into the Italian films and he starts kind of mimicking it but he never quite gets there I would say. I would say of all his films “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” gets there because it’s a bleak story about a woman who is hoping to … Continue reading "12 Martin Scorcese From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]" Related posts: From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. (Complete) The ‘Strongheart’ of Screenwriter Jane Murfin – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, September 2022 SRN 2023 Conference, Columbia, Missouri USA – Call for Papers – Proposals Due January 6, 2022

Transcript: Host: I know it’s always so heartening when something turns up that was thought to be lost and there may still be some Treasures out there and people are discovering new things every day and that’s what you know of course of interest to us at the Museum – finding those rare rare voices that … Continue reading "24 Conclusion from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]" Related posts: 21 “Norma Rae” and “Silkwood” from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 16 A Few Good Stories from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 24 Women in Modern Westerns from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]

Transcript: Charles Burnett who wrote”Killer of Sheep”. There you go and this is kind of an amazing really good example of taking neo-realism and bringing into the African-American storytelling. This is in many ways– people who now look at it say this is truly a perfect example of transmitting from one culture to another a style … Continue reading "11 Charlie Burnett and “Killer of Sheep” From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]" Related posts: From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. (Complete) SRN 2023 Conference, Columbia, Missouri USA – Call for Papers – Proposals Due January 6, 2022 The ‘Strongheart’ of Screenwriter Jane Murfin – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, September 2022

Transcript: …and women are terrible at keeping track of their own archives. So many of these women threw away material. They cleaned out their houses. They were busy with kids. They didn’t want all this clutter around when their career was over and it disappeared. I mean it’s a great story, Bess Meredyth – who … Continue reading "23 The Importance of Archives from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]" Related posts: 21 “Norma Rae” and “Silkwood” from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 16 A Few Good Stories from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 07 More On Neo-realism in the US From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]

Transcript: …and then “Claudine.” I always have to credit my students. I have a list of films they watch in every of the four semesters we do the history of screenwriting – all chronological from science to modern day – and people come to me and say how come this film wasn’t on the list and … Continue reading "10 Claudine From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]" Related posts: From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. (Complete) SRN 2023 Conference, Columbia, Missouri USA – Call for Papers – Proposals Due January 6, 2022 The ‘Strongheart’ of Screenwriter Jane Murfin – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, September 2022

Transcript: Host: So are there some ways that we as – like the work you’ve been doing with your research – that in terms of revising those kind of incomplete histories of the film industry. What steps can we take to actually repair that and have a more accurate Narrative of the past? Rosanne: Oh … Continue reading "22 Preserving Women’s Film History from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]" Related posts: 07 More On Neo-realism in the US From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video] 16 A Few Good Stories from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 21 “Norma Rae” and “Silkwood” from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]

Transcript: “Nothing But A Man” deals with this really in a way we hadn’t seen before. Then we get into “The Cool World” and this is now the first time we’ve seen sort of gang life and it’s not glorified and it’s not beautiful. This is a very sad version of this is all I … Continue reading "09 More On Neo-realism and Black Cinema From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]" Related posts: From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. (Complete) 20 Diversity in the Room from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video] SRN 2023 Conference, Columbia, Missouri USA – Call for Papers – Proposals Due January 6, 2022

Transcript: Host: What are the examples of the heroine’s journey? What are some of those the stories that are in the heroine’s journey format template? I’m curious. Rosanne: Oh I would obviously “The Wizard of Oz” like I said. In a TV world, we claim that for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” right? Very much so … Continue reading "21 Examples of the Heroine’s Journey from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]" Related posts: 34 Conclusion from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 21 “Norma Rae” and “Silkwood” from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 25 My Screenwriting Story from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]

Transcript: But we’re also looking for news stories and the newer, most interesting ones. They’re gonna break through because the audience is so diverse and so wide and now we’re International right with Netflix and streaming and all that stuff. We can think about people we haven’t covered before and we know around the world … Continue reading "20 Diversity in the Room from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]" Related posts: New Book by IGE Lecturers Critique the Civil War in Films via PolyCentric [News] 16 A Few Good Stories from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 24 Women in Modern Westerns from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]

Transcript: …but interestingly enough in a place where it’s been ignored, it came deeply into the world of the black filmmakers of the 1970s who felt that they wanted finally to show the world and how harsh it had been in their lives. So we see a lot of that influence come through these movies … Continue reading "07 More On Neo-realism in the US From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]" Related posts: From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. (Complete) SRN 2023 Conference, Columbia, Missouri USA – Call for Papers – Proposals Due January 6, 2022 The ‘Strongheart’ of Screenwriter Jane Murfin – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, September 2022

Transcript: …and there’s a lot of dudes in town — really good guys — who are learning that wait a minute, we’re used to talking over women and all that sort of thing and we have to stop and let people finish their thoughts before we dive in with something else and then people forget … Continue reading "19 Claim Your Space in the Room from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]" Related posts: 21 “Norma Rae” and “Silkwood” from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] New Book by IGE Lecturers Critique the Civil War in Films via PolyCentric [News] 16 A Few Good Stories from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]

Transcript: Americans start paying attention because of things like “Rome Open City” which is not something Suso wrote on but is of course a film that was very majorly important here and we start thinking oh how can we incorporate that into our movies and so it begins with things like “On the Waterfront” which … Continue reading "06 Neo-realism in the US From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]" Related posts: From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. (Complete) 17 Opportunities and Challenges from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video] The ‘Strongheart’ of Screenwriter Jane Murfin – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, September 2022

Transcript: For women particularly though, we know the world is still a boys club and so you have to be confident and you don’t want to be overly aggressive because then people say bad things about you and yet if you’re not, you don’t get through the sort of the clutter of everything. One of … Continue reading "18 The Heroine’s Journey from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]" Related posts: 21 “Norma Rae” and “Silkwood” from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 16 A Few Good Stories from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 24 Women in Modern Westerns from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]

Transcript: Host: Well that’s about what we’ve got time for but is there anything you would like to add just at the end? I would just like to also like to shout out the “Journal of Screenwriting” again and want everyone to go and check out the special issues on women in screenwriting, which is … Continue reading "34 Conclusion from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]" Related posts: 29 International Opportunities from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] 17 We Stand On The Shoulders…from When Men Forget Women: The Many Ways Male Screenwriters Fail to Mention their Female Colleagues [Video] 06 Female Writers Can Be Unreliable Narrators from When Men Forget Women: The Many Ways Male Screenwriters Fail to Mention their Female Colleagues [Video]

Transcript: We know from that we also know her from “Bellissima” which was one of the earliest movies to look at the movie business – certainly in Italy – and see how it eats people up. Chews them up. Spits them out which is so sad. So it was a meta film before anyone even … Continue reading "05 Even More On Suso Cecchi d’Amico From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. [Video]" Related posts: From Jeanne to Suso to Julie to Spike: How Jeanne Macpherson's Manual on Screenwriting Influenced Italian Realism which Influenced Black Independent Film in the U.S. (Complete) From ‘Greatest Girl Reporter’ to ‘Mother Confessor of Hollywood' Adela Rogers St. Johns Wrote Herself into the History of the 20th Century – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, October 2022 The ‘Strongheart’ of Screenwriter Jane Murfin – Dr. Rosanne Welch, Script Magazine, September 2022

Transcript:   Host: You’ve mentioned being a professor of aspiring screenwriters. You know as they look to their future careers. What opportunities do you see or challenges that they, and maybe particularly your women students, will face but probably also your men students? What looks like it may be changing? What challenges are they facing … Continue reading "17 Opportunities and Challenges from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]" Related posts: 16 A Few Good Stories from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] What Is a Western? Gidget (1959) – Part Of The Series What Is A Western? Film Series – Autry Museum of the American West [Event] 25 My Screenwriting Story from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]

Transcript: There is a classic Robert Riskin story. He’s the guy who wrote all the Frank Capra movies and it’s and anecdotal – the idea that one day he got so mad about the “Capra Touch.” They handed in 200 blank pages and he said ‘Go ahead. Put your touch on that.” Because you can’t direct … Continue reading "14 More On Writer Vs. Director from What Is a Western? Interview Series: When Women Wrote Westerns from the Autry Museum of the American West [Video]" Related posts: 28 Changes from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] New Book by IGE Lecturers Critique the Civil War in Films via PolyCentric [News] 16 A Few Good Stories from In Conversation with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video]