Marvel hired a pair of high-profile female screenwriters, Guardians of the Galaxy's Nicole Perlman and Inside Out's Meg LeFauve, to oversee the new film earlier this week.
The first Hollywood blacklist, a list of directors, screenwriters, composers, actors and other film-makers suspected of communist sympathies, was published in 1947.
Using the latest research from neuroscience and psychology, writer Will Storr reveals how authors, screenwriters and journalists can make their writing richer and more compelling by understanding the brain's inherent storytelling processes.
Agreeing with recent remarks made by Carey Mulligan that sexism remains rife within the industry, she adds: "Certainly there aren't nearly enough female film directors, there aren't enough women screenwriters and producers.
As the brilliant 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet sets out, screenwriters and directors snuck in gay themes where they could, with Gore Vidal memorably writing Ben Hur and Messala as though they were lovers turned rivals (Charlton Heston had no idea).
She comes into her own in the sequel; Star Trek screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman give her hopes and dreams beyond being Parker's girlfriend, as well as her own crucial part to play in Spider-Man's continuing development as a superhero.
"We are getting some phenomenal A-list screenwriters who have only written for the big screen pitching their TV ideas to us," he enthuses.
And Lost, the behemoth fantasy TV series about plane crash survivors on a remote island, reveals one universal truth about how screenwriters can, where plot is concerned, become utterly and completely – lost.
The college is also considering setting up a film school, having already brought in members of a Christian screenwriters' group in Hollywood to teach a class in screenwriting.Despite this abiding sense of mission, the students are far from identikit conservatives.
Lord Chief Justice Woolf, Britain's top judge, was pilloried in the press this week for suggesting that the two legal systems are more similar than screenwriters make out.Lord Woolf was trying to set down in writing how far judges could "discount" minimum prison terms for defendants who plead guilty.
Independent screenwriters argue that creativity has been stifled now that the broadcast networks have been swallowed up, with production houses, into giant conglomerates.
