Rosanne Welch's video: 32 Women As Survivors from When Women Write Horror with Dr Rosanne Welch

From On Screenwriting and Media with Dr. Rosanne Welch http://rosannewelch.com In honor of Halloween - and in service to my teaching philosophy -- "Words Matter. Writers Matter. Women Writers Matter." I presented this holiday lecture "When Women Write Horror" on Tuesday, October 29th, 2019. Researching the many, many women who have written horror stories - in novels, films, and television - brought new names to my attention who I am excited to start reading. I hope you will be, too! Watch this entire presentation https://youtu.be/voPMXUl7jFc Transcript Now we've had a ton of final girls in movies. There was actually a final girl movie because of that trope right? So i think that's kind of interesting, but what's great is that after 11 Halloween sequels, they came back to Jamie Lee Curtis and said will you do another one of these movies and she said "Now I will only do it if we flip the whole damn thing and from now on I'm the survivor. She's the survivor. She gets back at the guy who did that to them. That's why she agreed to the movie to flip that trope over in her adulthood. She's like why don't we call women survivors? Why are they girls? They're survivors. Let's think about the language and how it's used.