Name: Should we omit teaching the Superhero Movies genre in our Screenwriting classes, since their structure is predictable, their content violent, and the productions so expensive?
Start: 2025-04-06T16:30:00-0700
End: 2025-04-06T17:30:00-0700

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Sunday April 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT

W308

Panelists Vote Yes, No, or Maybe on the Question, After teaching the Superhero Movie genre in our Screenwriting class, I am questioning whether I should include it in the future. The immense special effects budgets of these movies precludes young scriptwriters from being entrusted with a production, and the plotline of Our Hero / Heroine fighting Opponent A, then Opponent B alternately, until vanquishing both in the end, grows tiresome.
Moderator: Dennis Patrick Conway, Valdosta State University
Panelists: Michael Sinclair, Regent University

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Dennis Conway

Professor, Valdosta State University

I teach Screenwriting, Performance and Production classes. I also serve as the Editor of the BEA's The Journal of Media Education.

Speakers

Michael Sinclair

Chair, Dept. of Media and Visual Arts, Regent University

I am a television producer with 30 years of experience writing, directing, and producing television for various networks, including Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV, OWN, Travel Channel, ID, MSNBC, National Geographic Channel, BET, PBS, and others. I teach film and television production... Read More →

Sunday April 6, 2025 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
W308

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Dennis Conway

Michael Sinclair

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