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Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television Photos via Instagram
Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television
The Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting program teamed up with the Writers Guild Foundation to pull the covers back on a topic that still makes viewers blush: sex. On this special evening, our panel of TV writers and producers share how they approach writing about sex, from intimate scenes to revealing dialogue, and the nuances they consider when crafting stories about sex and sexuality.
Michelle Ashford – Masters of Sex, The Pacific
Cindy Chupack – I'm Dying Up Here, Divorce, Sex and the City
Sahar Jahani – 13 Reasons Why, Ramy
Dayna Lynne North – Insecure, Single Ladies, Lincoln Heights
Gladys Rodriguez – Vida, Dynasty, Sons of Anarchy
Moderated by Dr. Rosanne Welch.
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Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television Panel via Instagram
Panorama before the panel: "Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television" at the Writers Guild of America
Past students at new events via Instagram
Event: Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television – Writers Guild Foundation – Friday, January 12, 2019
Chatting after the panel via Instagram
Author Dr. Rosanne WelchPosted on January 19, 2020 Categories Academic, Education, Film, History, LA/Los Angeles, Photos, Screenwriting, Speaking, Stephens College, Television, Women, WritingTags discussion, film, Instagram, movies, panel, photography, screenwriting, sex, television, tv, women, writersguild, writersguildfoundation, writingLeave a comment on Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television Photos via Instagram
DTLA Film Festival panel discussion via Instagram
After the DTLA Film Festival Panel via Instagram
Author Dr. Rosanne WelchPosted on January 17, 2020 Categories Academic, Education, Events, Film, LA/Los Angeles, Photos, Screenwriting, Speaking, Stephens College, Television, Women, WritingTags discussion, film, Instagram, movies, panel, photography, screenwriting, sex, television, tv, women, writersguild, writersguildfoundation, writingLeave a comment on Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television Panel via Instagram
Past students at new events
Hosting the WGA events for Stephens allows me to reconnect with students I've had and other schools. Here I am chatting with a student from last spring's one-hour drama class from Columbia College's Semester in LA program.
DTLA Film Festival after our panel discussion, Privileged Characters: How to recognize and avoid implicit bias in your screenwriting. via Instagram
After our DTLA Film Festival panel discussion, Privileged Characters: How to recognize and avoid implicit bias in your screenwriting. via Instagram
DTLA Film Festival panel discussion, Privileged Characters: How to recognize and avoid implicit bias in your screenwriting via Instagram
Author Dr. Rosanne WelchPosted on January 16, 2020 Categories Academic, Education, Events, Film, LA/Los Angeles, Photos, Screenwriting, Semester In LA, Speaking, Stephens College, Television, Women, WritingTags discussion, event, Instagram, panel, photography, students, writersguild, writersguildfoundationLeave a comment on Past students at new events via Instagram
34 Princess Leia – Part 2 from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1 minute 9 seconds)
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This one allowed me to riff on some of my favorite female science fiction writers across time, whether they be novelists or television writers. It also opened up a good conversation on what art we support and include in our lives – and what that art says to us and about us. — Rosanne
My favorite picture of her is always this moment, where she breaks him down with no weapon just her mind and her courage. She's like screw you dude. I could smell you when I walked in the room. Too bad right? That diplomat. That person who could do it with their voice and their inner strength. That's the character that I like to remember better but you're mostly gonna see these pictures and you know I didn't put up the picture of her in the bikini and Jabba the Hutt because that's just overdone — overdone and sad to say — much as I like George Lucas — pretty cool in many things he's done, she does throw out reference in the book when she showed up as a 19-year-old all alone in England to film this movie with a bunch of dudes who are older than her. She's not wearing a bra under that thing and when she asked George Lucas why he said there are no bras in the 25th century and it wasn't till later in life she was like these guys just wanted to see me bouncing around without a bra. All the men on the crew just wanted to watch me without a bra. What do you mean there are no bras in the 25th century?! Who are you? You're not the guy who invented that! So you know that's kind of sad and kind of bums me out, but this is the Princess Leia that I like to remember. I think she's powerful.
33 Princess Leia from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (56 seconds)
32 Characters: Uhura, Guinan, Star Trek from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1 minute 16 seconds)
31 Characters: Nyota Uhura, Star Trek from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1 minute 20 seconds)
30 More On Jane Espenson from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (58 seconds)
8 Assumptions That A Man Did The Work from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (31 seconds)
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Chatting after the panel: "Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television" at the Writers Guild of America.
After our WGA panel on Writing sex scenes for television, Dr. Rosanne Welch speaks to panelist (and Stephens College MFA alum) Sahar Jahani (Ramy, 13 Reasons Why) speak with Intimacy coordinator Mia Schachter.
Location as Character: The Craft of Writing Place Panel via Instagram
Author Dr. Rosanne WelchPosted on January 15, 2020 Categories Academic, Education, Events, Film, History, LA/Los Angeles, Photos, Screenwriting, Speaking, Stephens College, Television, Women, Writers on Writing, WritingTags discussion, Instagram, panel, photography, screenwriting, sex, wga, wgafoundation, writing, writingsexLeave a comment on Chatting after the panel via Instagram
21 The 80's, The Present, And The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (1 minute 9 seconds)
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From Denver Pop Culture Con 2019.
Wherever you go, you find Monkees fans and the Denver Popular Culture Con was no different. Amid rooms full of caped crusaders and cosplay creations, I was initially not sure how many folks would attend a talk on a TV show from the 1960s – but happily I was met by a nice, engaged audience for my talk on Why the Monkees Matter – and afterward they bought books! What more could an author ask for?
In the 80s, they get a star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood for the television show. Not for the music — which is interesting. You can have a star for or five different things — radio, TV, film, vaudeville — whatnot. So this is pretty cool. So that's all of them showing up. That's when they decide to do the re-touring. They're still obviously famous and this year they just came out with an Archie comic that blended The Monkees into it and, of course, The Archies are big again now because of what TV show? Riverdale! So all of a sudden everything is going in circles and the sixties karma get popular again and I often say to younger audiences when I talk to them. They may never have heard of The Monkees but they know one of The Monkees' songs by heart because they saw this movie and you start singing it and they all I know it. I didn't know that it was a Monkees song. Again, who wrote that song? Close. They're major songwriters for them. Yeah, Neil Diamond. That's a Neil Diamond song and in concert recently people have asked him to sing it and he says No, that's Mickey Dolenz' song. I wrote it but it doesn't belong to me anymore. Again a musician complimenting another musician. They do take each other seriously.
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A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966-1968) earned two Emmys–Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Directorial Acheivement in Comedy.
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07 Timothy Leary and the Counterculture from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (54 seconds)
11 Who Made The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (1 minute 4 seconds)
12 Women And The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (1 minute 3 seconds)
04 More On The Writers of The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (1 minute 4 seconds)
08 Politics, War, And The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (1 minute 3 seconds)
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Panorama before the panel: "Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television" at the Writers Guild of America.
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"Write Like A Mother" Panel with the Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting and hosted by the Writers Guild Foundation
Screenwriting Panel at the Writers Guild Foundation via Instagram
Author Dr. Rosanne WelchPosted on January 13, 2020 Categories Academic, Film, LA/Los Angeles, Photos, Screenwriting, Speaking, Stephens College, Television, Women, Writers on Writing, WritingTags academic, discussion, education, mfa, panel, screenwriting, sex, stephenscollege, writersguild, writersguildfoundation, writingLeave a comment on Panorama before the panel: "Between the Sheets: Writing About Sex on Television" at the Writers Guild of America
Dr. Rosanne Welch speaks with writer-producer Dayna Lynne North via Instagram
Dr. Rosanne Welch speaks with writer-producer Dayna Lynne North (ANY DAY NOW, VERONICA MARS, LINCOLN HEIGHTS,
INSECURE) before their panel "Between the Sheets" at the Writers Guild.
Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting Workshop visits producer/writer Rob LaZebnik and The Simpsons writer's room
At The Stephens College MFA in Screenwriting and TV Winter Workshop via Instagram
Author Dr. Rosanne WelchPosted on January 12, 2020 Categories Academic, Film, LA/Los Angeles, Photography, Screenwriting, Speaking, Stephens College, Television, Women, Writers on Writing, WritingTags discussion, event, panel, screenwriting, sex, wga, wgaf, women, writingLeave a comment on Dr. Rosanne Welch speaks with writer-producer Dayna Lynne North via Instagram
Now of course, post Star Trek, the next big star science fiction thing that's going to happen is Star Wars. We all know that and so it's interesting because now sometimes people go oh Princess Leia sort of sat there and waited to be rescued. Ehhh… it was a big deal back in the day that she fought her way out right? She grabbed the blaster and they jumped in the garbage chute and all those things. She was considered a much more active princess. She's not as active as we want people to be today but she's like a bridge between where they didn't do anything and where they do everything but I think it's an important thing to pay attention to. She writes a lot about that in her last book before Carrie Fisher died, The Princess Diarist. She writes about the experience of filming that. What I don't like is that we sort of when you look up pictures of Princess Leia and you think power it's because she's always got that blaster in her hand. So we're still equating power with the male concept of a weapon as opposed to the interior power that you bring.
28 D.C. Fontana from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (1 minute 9 seconds)
20 More On Leigh Brackett from The Sisterhood of Science Fiction – Dr. Rosanne Welch [Video] (46 seconds)
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20 The 70's And The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (57 seconds)
In the 70s we're gonna be on Laugh In. At this point, Peter has left the band. Once the show is off the air Peter leaves the band. So now they're trying to do it as a threesome. So check us out. Look at how much more Seventy-fied, hippy-ied their stuff is right? So they're still being talked about in the '70s. In the 80s, we're gonna have the MTV Marathon Pleasant Valley Sunday. So a 20th anniversary of the show all of a sudden a new generation of kids are introduced to it. I have a photo of Rachel Maddow because she interviewed Peter after the death of Davy Jones and she said to him as a child of the 80s I learned what it was like to be a kid in the 60s through watching reruns of your show. That's how I learned what it was like. I thought how interesting with that as it's going through the decades and of course the Monkees as they toured today. They're in New Zealand this week actually. It's just Mike and Micky now. They will say that they have grandmothers, mothers, daughters, and the gettin down to great-grandmothers pretty soon. They have a very wide fandom, which is a big deal.
18 Popular Culture and The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (56 seconds)
19 More Popular Culture and The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (52 seconds)
16 Cultural Impact and The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (29 seconds)
15 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (49 seconds)
10 More On TV As Platform And Podium from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (52 seconds)
Author Dr. Rosanne WelchPosted on January 6, 2020 Categories Academic, Books, History, Monkees, Podcast, Show, Speaking, Television, Video, WritingTags 1960s, book, history, monkees, popculture, popularculture, television, tv, writing1 Comment on 20 The 70's And The Monkees from "Why The Monkees Matter: Even 50 Years Later [Video] (57 seconds)
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