As TV Academy members toasted the stars of “Ted Lasso” on May 1, things were about to change dramatically in the Emmy campaign space. Apple TV+ was celebrating the opening of a “For Your Consideration” activation at Goya Studios, where it erected a massive tent to showcase its bevy ...
Focusing on the 2007-8 writers strike, the project analyzes videos that writers made about the conflict, showing how "rhetorical writers" used satire, complex argumentation, and knowledge of digital media to publicize writers' value. These "pro-writer" videos, online and on television, challenged...
Members of the Writers Guild of America have been on strike for 100 days, and writers are getting creative to keep striking even longer. The TV and film writers' union has beenstriking since May 2after the WGA did not reach a new contract agreement with the Alliance of Motion Pictu...
I argue that television entertainment writers, their cultural status, and rhetorical skills are critical to national discourse and media structures. Focusing on the 2007-8 writers strike, the project analyzes videos that writers made about the conflict, showing how "rhetorical writers" used satire, ...
“Here is what all writers know: the companies have broken this business,” the WGA stated in its message announcing the strike to members. “They have taken so much from the very people, the writers, who have made them wealthy. But what they cannot take from us is each other, our sol...
Thousands of television and film writers who are part of the Writers Guild of America are in the middle of a historic strike. They’re forming picket lines in front of studios, and productions in New York and Los Angeles and shutting down active sets. The last time they went on strike wa...
A Guild representative did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment. So, if a strike happens, how could it affect your TV viewing?Vanity Fairnotes that late-night TV will likely feel the heat first, since Guild writers have to write jokes daily...
How Green Was My Valley: Directed by John Ford. With Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp. At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find
“… and then I sit down and start typing and see what they will do. … It amazes me to find out, a few chapters later, why I put someone in a certain place when I did.” 4― Read. Writers are readers.Good writers are good readers. Great writers are great readers. ...
6.For professional materials, theGunning Fog Indexensures that texts strike the right balance between “reading ease” and “reading difficulty.” It looks at sentence length and word complexity. Reader engagement can increase by 20% more if your text uses simpler and clearer words, according to...