Rosanne Welch's video: 47 More On Screenplays As Literature from Why Researching Screenwriters Has Always Mattered

A clip from my keynote speech (http://rosannewelch.com) at the 10th Screenwriters´(hi)Stories Seminar for the interdisciplinary Graduation Program in "Education, Art, and History of Culture", in Mackenzie Presbyterian University, at São Paulo, SP, Brazil, focused on the topic "Why Researching Screenwriters (has Always) Mattered." I was especially pleased with the passion these young scholars have toward screenwriting and it's importance in transmitting culture across the man-made borders of our world. Watch this entire presentation https://welchwrite.com/rwelch/2019/10/30/why-researching-screenwriters-has-always-mattered-10th-screenwritershistories-seminar-dr-rosanne-welch/ Transcript: In my family, we like A Christmas Carol -- Dickens' A Christmas Carol -- and it's been made into movies several times and for us, the best version is the one made by The Muppets because in that version Gonzo the muppet gives the action dialogue -- the narration -- that you would not see in any other version of the film but he narrates -- he walks around town -- as Dickens narrating. So you hear language that you miss in the other movies. So, to me, that's what's happening when people start reading actual screenplays. They're seeing the craft as it exists on the page. Yes, of course, we'd like it made into a film and we want to see the beautiful vistas and we want to see actors who are wonderful but I just really need the story. That's enough for me. That's gonna make me feel something.