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Save The Date! – Rosanne at SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) Conference, April 1-5, 2020, Denver Colorado

For SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) I was invited to be part of a panel with 3 other fascinating female academics discussing How Unreliable Narrators harm giving women enough credit in historical research. A great deal of women’s work has gone uncredited. Its documentation or evidence may not exist in predictable places. Conceiving of how this work was conducted, or had an impact, or might be theorized often pose more questions than answers. Our panel is interested in meeting these challenges through new and alternative forms of storytelling. How might we identify creative or productive approaches to historical writing that address absences, gaps, rumors, contradictions, or suspect information? Read more

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#Recap of WriteOrDieChicks #writercrushes of June 2019

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32 Characters: Uhura, Guinan, Star Trek from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1 minute 16 seconds)

Because of him talking to her at that event, she stayed on the show and as we know, she went through the movies--  as an older woman,  which is also a big deal an -- older woman doing empowering things very cool. She influenced Whoopi Goldberg who at that point was an Academy award-winning actress. She did the TV show, The Next Generation, for the very same reason. She said I grew up watching Nichelle Nichols. I want to give that same message to children in the next generation. So she would guest frequently on Next Generation and while we're busy thinking about people who got very very influenced, you may not know this lady? Anybody? She's the first African American female astronaut. Her name is Mae Jemison, all right, so she's an American woman who saw Star Trek as a kid and said I'm gonna get that job and she did which is pretty amazing. So much so that she guest-starred on the show to say thanks for what influence you gave me in my childhood and I want other young girls to see me in the future. That's an amazing piece of powerful message coming from one character, right, one character being invented in a show. So it's fascinating to me what we can learn from that. 

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Journal of Screenwriting 10.3 is now available (Historiographic Research in Screenwriting Special Issue)

I’m always happy to announce the latest issues of the Journal of Screenwriting and 10.3 — a Special Issue discussing ‘Historiographic Research in Screenwriting’ — is now available! For me, as Book Reviews editor it’s especially nice to note that 2 alums of the Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting program, one current student and Friend of the Program Anna Weinstein are among the reviewers of books this month, with current MFA candidate CJ Ehrlich having reviewed a text used in our History of Screenwriting courses – Tom Stempel’s Framework. Does your college library have a subscription?

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Top 25 Pages for 2019 - Dr. Rosanne Welch

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From The Journal Of Screenwriting V10 Issue 1: Colonizing, decolonizing: Bad-faith liberalism and African space colonialism in Doris Lessing’s screenplay The White Princess By James Arnett

Although Doris Lessing frequently wrote about Africa over the course of her career, and her relationship to colonialism is undeniably critical, changing theoretical paradigms have complicated readings of her anticolonial critique. From a treasure trove of unpublished African material contained in her papers at the Harry Ransom Center Archives at the University of Texas, this article looks at one of her unpublished screenplays, The White Princess, as a complex and fraught attempt to generate an ethos of decolonization well in advance of its contemporary, post-postcolonial preeminence in twenty-first-century theoretical discourse. Lessing’s positing of a speculative future African recolonization of Britain would have emerged into a smattering of British speculative fictions of the late 1960s and 1970s that likewise imagined African colonialism, but did so, this article argues, hampered by a bad-faith liberalism. Despite the subversive potential of exploring inverted colonial dynamics, this article argues that Lessing ultimately cannot break free of generic conventions, political and theoretical limitations, or colonial discursive structures to achieve real decolonization work in The White Princess – although she may succeed elsewhere in her oeuvre.

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34 More On Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett – “When Women Wrote Hollywood” with Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1 minute 10 seconds)

Directors are lovely people but when you talk about a movie to your friends rarely do you discuss camera angles. You discuss dialogue and that's what the writer wrote.It should be the writer's movie or nobodies. I have a big fight with publishers now. I refuse to do things like Spielberg's Lincoln. No. Tony Kushner wrote Lincoln and he's got a Pulitzer Prize. it's either his movie or it's just Lincoln. Let's leave it at that all right? It does not belong to Steven Spielberg cuz he didn't write any of it but these guys are wonderful. Their work was great. They were invited -- they did Thin Man. They did It's A Wonderful LIfe -- they were invited to work on the play the Diary of Anne Frank. A couple other people were offered at first. This was at a time when everything was crazy after the war. There were some thoughts that maybe it was a fake diary right but these guys believed in i.t They met Otto Frank -- Anne's father -- and worked with him and created the play which won them a Pulitzer Prize and then they adapted their own play into a film. So Francis and Albert Hackett -- they were considered the most beloved couple in Hollywood. They were friends with Dorothy and Alan and all these other couples that work together and they were apparently the nicest people you could ever meet, right?  @McFarlandCoPub @stephenscollege @MFAscreenwriter 

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19 More Popular Culture and The Monkees from “Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (52 seconds)

Their popular culture travels through the decades. This is where people start going "why is anyone still talking about them. The show is canceled? The show is over. It's done" but it's not, right? In the seventies, the show was rerun on Saturday mornings so a lot of another level of fandom came to them as children watching the Saturday morning TV. So, of course, Davy is still a big name. So he comes on to The Brady Bunch because Marcia has written a letter asking him to come and perform at her prom and he doesn't get it on time. He doesn't get it fast enough and eventually, he gets told about it and then he decides to be her date which is adorable and is apparently the most has been rerun more than any other. Which means -- which means that Davy was also then voted the number one teen idol of all time at a certain point, so that's a big deal.  @McFarlandCoPub @themonkees 

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31 Characters: Nyota Uhura, Star Trek from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1 minute 20 seconds)

In terms of characters that we need to pay some attention to, if you don't know the original Star Trek you should but you've seen some of these characters and memes all over the internet right? Nyota Uhura. It was a big deal. They're putting an African-American woman in the future. Now there was some chit chat about the sexism going on because she was just answering the phone. She's running the radio on the ship but she's still on the ship on the main place and she often was involved in stories, but what's really important about her character and why these two are connected in these pictures is that after the first season on the show, she was kind of like "I'm just answering the damn phone like I don't really feel like I'm empowered very much I don't really want to do this show anymore" and she was a big band singer, she could go back out on the road , sing,  tour America,  make money. I don't need to do this cheesy science fiction show and then she met him at some event-- I forget -- some fundraising event and she said she kind of apologized for kind of how stupid her role was in the show and told him she was quitting so she's proud of I want you to know I'm not gonna do this anymore and he was like "Oh no no no no. You have to stay. You are the only African-American who is seen in the future. You do not understand the power of little children looking up and saying okay we survive. She made it. I'll make it. This is a big, big deal.

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33 Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett from “When Women Wrote Hollywood” with Dr. Rosanne Welch

These guys are somebody that everybody should know and, of course, each of these people that I'm talking about now, they have a chapter in this book which is what the books all about. Francis and Albert Hackett. They were married for 54 years and wrote films together for about 50 of those. They started in New York as playwrights they came out here and again you've probably never heard their names but you have seen these movies, have you not? Every year how many times do we watch It's a Wonderful Life and what does everybody tell you whose movie is that? Frank Capra's movie because Frank Capra forced himself on the writing credits. He wrote some scenes and had his name added to the writing credits and when they edited the movie they cut out all the scenes he wrote. The movie is Francis and Albert Hackett's script. He kept adding more to prove he was a writer and none of it was any good. So it kills me that we call that Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life.    @McFarlandCoPub @stephenscollege @MFAscreenwriter 

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18 Popular Culture and The Monkees from “Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (56 seconds)

They were their own comic book. I'm sure somewhere in this place this weekend at one of the big comic cage upstairs might have a copy. I don't know. It's probably pretty rare. They were drawn by who knows who the drawer -- the artist -- Hirschfeld --  thank you very much. That's a huge thing that he would choose them right? This was for a piece in TV Guide at the time but he did all the great Broadway stars. So and I just think that's beautiful (Audience: Is his daughter's name in there somewhere?) You know it should be and I think it's in Peter's hair I think or it might be at the end of Mike's hair. It's got to be in this hair somewhere. He always had the name Nina -- his daughter's name. That's a fun fact of Hirschfeld and if you go online you can google Hirschfeld Nina and it will show all the photos where her name appears. So I'm guessing if we looked hard enough it would be in there. So they're making it all over popular culture. Obviously, there's other Hirschfeld's where you can see more of them and look at all the famous people that he's covered but there in that world. Nina's definitely in her Marilyn Monroe's skirt.  @McFarlandCoPub @themonkees

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Krista Dyson, Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting Alumni, wins Buffy for Best Documentary at the 2019 Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival @stephenscollege @MFAscreenwriter

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New Essay Published: The Twenty-First-Century Western: New Riders of the Cinematic Stage

Westward Ho! The Women!: Frontier Females in Postfeminist Films

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From The “When Women Wrote Hollywood Archives 07: “Frederica Sagor Maas, Hollywood’s ‘Shocking Miss Pilgrim'” The Forward.

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Drs. Rosanne Welch and Sarah Clark discuss “Monkees in a Ghost Town” on the Zilch Podcast’s Monkees 101 Series [Audio]

As you know I always LOVE talking television so when fellow Dr. Sarah Clark of Zilch Nation asked me a while back if I’d like to cohost an ongoing segment of Zilch where we analyze each of the 58  episodes of The Monkees — I jumped at the chance.Even though I did a lot of this work in the book – I couldn’t cover all the episodes so this segment allows us to take one at a time and do our own critical studies and popular culture coverage. Check out the current segment on the episode “Monkees in a Ghost Town” with all his homage to “Of Mice and Men”

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30 More On Jane Espenson from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (58 seconds)

Likewise, she wrote many Buffy's but one of the best is an episode called Earshot and Buffy's all streaming for free on Facebook right now so you can watch. (Audience: I grew up watching that.) I Iove Buffy, I know. It's really brilliantly written show. Earshot was a brilliant episode about Buffy who is the Vampire Slayer being cursed with the ability to hear what everyone is thinking -- so mental telepathy and the problem is the cacophony in your head starts to make you crazy because if you can hear what everyone was thinking you couldn't think your own thoughts and along the way -- she's in high school -- she hears someone say "It doesn't matter tomorrow by noon they'll all be dead." So now she knows she's in a school with a shooter but who is it because she can't pinpoint where the voice came from. So the whole episode is about trying to find the kid and of course, you trace the kid who looks the most bullied and seems to be the most stereotypically that kid. I'm not going to tell you you did it but -- spoiler alert -- it ain't that kid right? So it's really again excellently written episode using all the tropes of the era so Jane Espenson a pretty important writer.

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Mentoris Project Podcast: Humble Servant of Truth: A Novel Based on the Life of Thomas Aquinas with Author, Margaret O’Reilly

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