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Women’s literary writing as a gateway to filmmaking: adaptation, screenwriting and gender in Swedish classical cinema

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This study examines women’s screenwriting in the Swedish film industry in the period from the 1930s to the early 1960s, focussing on adaptation practices and professional mobility between the film and literary sectors. By combining a data survey of feature film adaptations with regard to gender, origin, and date of the literary precursor with analyses of production records, the analysis sheds light on how the film industry integrated writers from the literary sphere in screenwriting practices. In doing so, the study answers the question of how the relationship between the film and literature spheres influenced the opportunities available to women in screenwriting and how it shaped their authorial agency and status as filmmakers.

Source: Adaptation

DOI: 10.1093/adaptation/apaf007

Author: Anna Sofia Rossholm

Institution: Stockholm University

Language: English

Topic: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism

Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,855