[ecrea] 5th Screenwriting Research Conference

Call for Papers

Words&  Images: Screenwriting Research
5th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference

September 14th-16th, 2012
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

This is a call for papers for the annual international conference on 
screenwriting research, this year organised by the Department of Media, 
Music, Communication&  Cultural Studies at Macquarie University. The 
Screenwriting Research Network is a research group that commenced in 
2006 within the Louis Le Prince Research Centre, at the Institute of 
Communication Studies (ICS), University of Leeds. The network has 
achieved a critical mass in recent years with conferences taking place 
in Leeds (2008), Helsinki (2009), Copenhagen
(2010) and Brussels (2011). The fifth conference widens the geographic 
spread of the network to the Asia-Pacific, taking place in Sydney, 
Australia (2012).
The international Screenwriting Research Network is comprised of 
scholars, writers and practice-based researchers devoted to rethinking 
the screenplay in relation to its histories, theories, values and 
creative practices. The aim of the conference is to continue, and 
expand, discussions around the screenplay and to strengthen a rapidly 
emerging, and global, research network. The Journal of Screenwriting, 
since 2009, stands testament to the vitality of the screenwriting 
network across traditional and practice-based research. This is in 
addition to growth in publication of screenwriting monographs by 
scholars in the network, for example screenwriting books by Stephen 
Price, Steven Maras, JJ Murphy and Jill Nelmes to name a few.
The key theme of the conference is ‘Words&  Images’. This speaks to the 
complex, intertwined, and ephemeral relationships between words and 
images that screenwriters negotiate. Alain Robbe-Grillet claimed 
‘conceiving of a screen story would mean already conceiving of it in 
images’ (1961). While Gary Davis suggested that a screenplay is a ‘story 
told with word-pictures’ (Price: 2010). In the age of media convergence, 
screenwriting forms and practices intersect, in new and unpredictable 
ways, with other forms that unite words and images: the graphic novel, 
the comic, illustration, the graphic essay, visual arts and interactive 
media.

Keynote speakers will be confirmed in the new year, 2012.

We would like to invite abstracts for research presentations on (but not 
limited to) the following topics:
• The history of screenwriting around the globe • Screenwriting archival 
research • Theorising screenwriting and the screenplay • Reflections on 
narrative theory and dramaturgy • Pedagogy of screenwriting • 
Practice-based research • Process-based investigations of creative 
screenwriting • Scripting and digital scripting processes • 
Screenwriting as research • Authorship frameworks in screenwriting • 
Screen adaptation and the nexus of adaptation studies and screenwriting 
• The question of the auteur in screenwriting • Case studies on 
individual writers or texts • Collaborative modes of writing for the 
screen !
• Screenwriting manifestos
• Screenwriting for Independent cinema
• Cinematic writing
• Questions of intermediality in the digital age • Cross-fertilisation 
between screenwriting and other media • Screenwriting for interactive 
and online media (games, webisodes) • Transmedial screenwriting • The 
role of writing in non-fiction film!
• Screenwriting for animation
• Writing for episodic television: are we experiencing a new ‘golden age’?
• Genre-orientated considerations of screenwriting and the screenplay

Call for Papers
Time allotted to each paper is 20 minutes plus discussion. Abstracts 
(250-300 words) may be submitted until December 12, 2011. Earlier 
submissions are welcome. Please remember to state your name, affiliation 
and contact information. Include a brief statement (100 words) detailing 
your publications and/or screenwriting practice.

Please send your abstract to Alex Munt: (alex.munt /at/ mq.edu.au) More 
information on the program as well as cost, travelling and accommodation 
details will be available on the conference website at 
http://www.mmccs.mq.edu.au/wordsandimages

The conference is supported by the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie 
University, Sydney and is organised with assistance from the 
Screenwriting Research Network.

For further information, please contact Kathryn Millard, 
(kathryn.millard /at/ mq.edu.au) or Alex Munt, (alex.munt /at/ mq.edu.au) at the 
Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, 
Macquarie University.

Conference Co-Directors:
Professor Kathryn Millard, Department of Media, Music, Communication and 
Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University Dr Alex Munt, 
Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Faculty 
of Arts, Macquarie University


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