Jill Nelmes is a senior lecturer at the University of East London, UK. Her research interests include gender and film, and screenwriting. She studied screenwriting at UCLA, has had a number of screenplays in development and was a script reader in Hollywood for over two years. Jill Nelmes is editor of The Journal of Scriptwriting and Introduction to Film Studies, currently in its 4th edition.

[...] Selected Contents: List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Permissions Chapter 1. Introduction Jill Nelmes Part I: History of the form Chapter 2. Entertaining the Public Option: The Popular Film Writing Movement and the Emergence of Writing for the American Silent Cinema Torey Liepa Chapter 3. Screenwriters who Shaped the PreCode Woman and their Struggle with Censorship Jule Selbo Chapter 4. Screenwriting in Britain 1895-1929 Ian Macdonald Part II: Development, Craft and Process Chapter 5. An Impossible Task? Scripting 'The Chilian Club' Andrew Spicer Chapter 6. Boards, Beats, Binaries and Bricolage ¿ Approaches to the Animation Script Paul Wells Chapter 7. The Flexibility of Genre: The Action-Adventure Film in 1939 Ken Dancyger Part III: Alternatives to the conventional screenplay form Chapter 8. "Let the audience add 2 + 2 and they¿ll love you forever": The screenplay as a self-teaching system Adam Ganz Chapter 9. The Screenplay as Prototype Kathryn Millard Chapter 10. A similar sense of time: the collaboration between writer Jon Raymond and director Kelly Reichardt in Old Joy and Wendy and Lucy JJ Murphy Chapter 11. On Screenwriting Outside the West Sue Clayton Part IV: Theoretical and Critical Approaches Chapter 12. Character in the Screenplay Text Steven Price Chapter 13. Realism and Screenplay Dialogue Jill Nelmes Chapter 14. Analysing the Screenplay: A Comparative Approach Mark O¿Thomas Chapter 15. Beyond McKee: Screenwriting In and Out of the Academy Barry Langford Index