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Full-Text Articles in Screenwriting
Fancy Mice, Damian Aguilar
Fancy Mice, Damian Aguilar
University Honors Theses
In this proof-of-concept screenplay, a family becomes the subject of an isolating experiment that observes their behavior changes after remaining in their home for an extended period of time with all their basic needs met. The first twenty-pages of this psychological horror lays the foundation for a larger work that explores existential themes related to purpose, competition, and play.
Momim, Christopher Halligan
Momim, Christopher Halligan
LMU Theses and Dissertations
Alex, an intersex 19 year old, decides that the only way he can be a complete man is to have penis resection surgery, but when the only job available to him is job on the river, he must face his extreme aquaphobia and fear of the feminine and learn to follow the true flow of his nature.
Discovering Caroline, Jon Meyers
Discovering Caroline, Jon Meyers
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
DISCOVERING CAROLINE is the script for an ensemble, a feature-length supernatural drama, set in 1899. Caroline, presumed dead at birth, returns forty years later to the scene of that tragedy, a university nursing school training hospital, where her birth mother still works as a lunch lady. Surrounded by a dozen other characters (thirteen if you count the pig), played against a backdrop of a handful of supernatural events, this script explores familiar love, romantic love, inappropriate love, truth, deceit, death, and the consequences on others when these life events intertwine throughout seventy-seven scenes. Included here is an introduction as well …
Home, Kandace James
Home, Kandace James
Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones
My feature-length screenplay follows an anxious girl who, after her mother kicks her out of the house, is forced to live in her car. She’s in love with the dog walker but she’s the one who got her kicked out in the first place. Possessing the voices of queer, Black women, I display one possible outlook on the queer experience. “Home” broadens the narrative of young Black girls lived realities in America. “Home” depicts the realities of what it means to be young, Black, queer women in a world marked with religiosity, abuse, and grief, while in the process of …
Encore: A Story Of Identity, Austin Copps
Encore: A Story Of Identity, Austin Copps
Honors Scholars Collaborative Projects
Encore, a feature length screenplay, tells a story of a young man and his search for identity.
Whittier, Mario E. Johnson
Whittier, Mario E. Johnson
LMU Theses and Dissertations
A Navy sailor enlists at a mysterious Naval Reserves base to be closer to his dying mother and discovers he’s transporting aliens and an unknown medicine that could potentially save his Mom’s life.
Fallmore, Emanuella Bettarello De Oliveira
Fallmore, Emanuella Bettarello De Oliveira
LMU Theses and Dissertations
After a nightmare where her best friend is killed by a terrifying creature, a teenager girl, wakes up to find that not only is he missing in real life, but no one in the perfect town of Fallmore seems to remember he ever existed...
Cigar City, Rene T. Rodriguez
Cigar City, Rene T. Rodriguez
LMU Theses and Dissertations
A young woman disconnected from her roots tries to save her family’s cigar factory from a greedy developer planning to gentrify their Latin neighborhood.
A Reason To Daydream, Corinne Schipull
A Reason To Daydream, Corinne Schipull
Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)
Sexism in American culture comes as no surprise. In 2017, the film industry saw an increasing number of powerful men within its ranks exposed and exiled for allegations of sexually predatory behavior. Many see this purging as a sign of changing times, but this view is optimistic: the tides of change ebb in and out, and this problem far exceeds the movie industry. Well before the onslaught of articles on the likes of Harvey Weinstein, my classmates and I resolved to craft our senior thesis film with a crew made up entirely of women: we simply saw the pool of …