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Czech screenwriting has tended to be a male profession, however more women have written for the screen than have directed. Czech women screenwriters usually fit into one of the following four categories: screenwriter and director, screenwriter and actress, successful book writer turned screenwriter, or writer of children’s films and TV fairy tales.

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  1. Alice Němcová Tejkalová
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of East London, UK

    Jill Nelmes

  2. California State University, Fullerton, USA

    Jule Selbo

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© 2015 Alice Němcová Tejkalová, Filip Šára and David Sorfa

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Tejkalová, A.N., Šára, F., Sorfa, D. (2015). Czech Republic. In: Nelmes, J., Selbo, J. (eds) Women Screenwriters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312372_24

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