1Screenplay Manuals and the Homogenization of the Imagination
At the root of Hollywood’s representation crisis lies a failure of imagination. This failure is the result of over a century of severe constraints on who tells, sells, and green-lights screen stories. If imagination is, in part, the process whereby we “picture” or posit ideas, people, and worlds—in order to better understand our own—then considering the commonalities of who routinely writes, directs, stars in, and profits from the bulk of our culture’s vast creative output becomes important. To be more specific: when “most working writers emerge from the middle and upper middle classes; most are white; and the majority, most strikingly from the 1930s ...
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