Rosanne Welch's video: 29 Screenwriters Are Important 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: 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 wasn't the director's philosophy that we were afraid of showing the world. It was the writer's philosophy. It was their ideas about poverty and what it was like in America and how we needed to fix it. That's what scared the big guys and that's why they all went to prison, right? They aren't directors. They're writers. Yeah, they all went to prison for about 10 months because they wouldn't give names of fellow communists and it didn't even matter that nobody cared. Half of them weren't -- some were communists and it's legal for them to be a communist in the United States, but they were mostly all writers. So we know that writers are deeply important because it's the stories that matter because those were the things that changed people, right? That's what fascinates me.