Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: Also, think about how important names are with your characters. You all know from your childhood Cruella de Ville. Y’all knew what that was really, of course, maybe not when you were five but eventually you caught on. … Continue reading "31 The Importance of Names from When Women Write Horror with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (53 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: Now one of the things we have to think about — side note — when we think about horror movies again — is what they’re telling us. In this movie, as we know, spoiler alert, he’s the bad … Continue reading "30 The “Final Girl” Trope from When Women Write Horror with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (43 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: But we always knew that writers were important — if not the most important — because, if the directors were so important — when we had the Blacklist, 9 out of 10 of those people were writers. It … Continue reading "29 Screenwriters Are Important from Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered [Video] (52 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: Now one of the things we have to think about — side note — when we think about horror movies again — is what they’re telling us. In this movie, as we know, spoiler alert, he’s the bad … Continue reading "29 Unspoken Messages in Film from When Women Write Horror with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (53 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: So all of that unequal credit leads us not to be paying attention enough to writers as we should. Which is why they need to be studied more now. Also, I think education which was supposed to help … Continue reading "28 Screenwriting Education Flaws from Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered [Video] (56 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: Because what the writers learned was that everyone took a pay cut except IATSE — is the union for the people who work on the set– and that had come from Broadway and they did not take a … Continue reading "27 The Writers Guild from Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered [Video] (51 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   In honor of Halloween – and in service to my teaching philosophy — “Words Matter. Writers Matter. Women Writers Matter.” I presented this holiday lecture “When Women Write Horror” on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019. Researching the many, many women … Continue reading "27 The Exorcist from When Women Write Horror with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (25 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: …and then what happened is we had a really famous stock market crash and The Depression began and these men, particularly Louis B. Mayer, went to all the employees at their studio and said “We can’ pay you … Continue reading "26 The Great Depression from Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered [Video] (45 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   In honor of Halloween – and in service to my teaching philosophy — “Words Matter. Writers Matter. Women Writers Matter.” I presented this holiday lecture “When Women Write Horror” on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019. Researching the many, many women … Continue reading "26 Jamie Lee Curtis from When Women Write Horror with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (47 seconds)"

Watch this entire presentation Subscribe to Rosanne’s Channel and receive notice of each new video!   Transcript: In their mind, playwrights were to be respected because they sold a product — they sold their play — screenwriters sold a service like a maid or a car wash person. That isn’t something they should own and … Continue reading "25 Selling Services, not products from Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered [Video] (1 minute)"