"That's a Chick's Movie!": How Women Are Excluded from Screenwriting Work

Natalie Wreyford

"That's a Chick's Movie!": How Women Are Excluded from Screenwriting Work

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Abstract

Turning to the question of gender in screenwriting employment and work practices, in “‘That’s a Chick’s Movie’: How Women Are Excluded from Screenwriting Work”, Natalie Wreyford draws on original interviews and the work of Pierre Bourdieu to consider the gendered construction of taste and its consequences for women screenwriters, suggesting that, despite the increased acknowledgement of inequalities in the workplace, the gendering of taste is one significant reason why they remain unaddressed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies
Editors	Rosamund Davies, Paolo Russo, Claus Tieber
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	27
Pages	507-526
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-20769-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-20768-6
Publication status	Published - 28 Jul 2023

Keywords

Screenwriting
Film
Gender
Inequality
Creative and cultural work

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