[ecrea] Call for Chapters - Script Development: International Perspectives

Call for Chapters - Script Development: International Perspectives


Edited by Craig Batty and Stayci Taylor, RMIT University (Australia)


Script development is a crucial creative process in the production of a 
screen work. It is a creative, commercial and social practice in which 
ideas, emotions, people and personalities combine, cohere, clash and are 
contested by the practicalities, policies and rapid movements of the 
screen industry. It is also an activity usually controlled by 
hierarchical and financial powers, yet experienced by individual 
practitioners and groups who are simply trying to tell their stories to 
an outside world. With the rise of new forms of digital technology, new 
kinds of script development are also being facilitated – online, for new 
and networked platforms, and for transmedia story worlds. While these 
practices are increasingly available to a broader spectrum of 
practitioner than historically, they are nevertheless convoluted and 
difficult to track and trace.

Following on from a special issue of the Journal of Screenwriting(due 
out November 2017), which lays the foundations for this book, we are 
looking for chapters that have a tight and specific focus. To put it 
another way, this collection is intended to explore singular instances 
of script development ‘in action’ across various countries and cultures. 
Interested in both mainstream and niche practices across all forms of 
screen media, the book aims to present a rich and diverse set of 
analyses of script development that assist us in further understanding 
what it is, what it looks like, and how it is being approached in 
various personal, industrial and geographic contexts. We are 
particularly keen to hear from authors who can reference very specific 
practices (e.g., case studies), with a view to creating a collection 
that represents a truly international look at script development in all 
of its guises. Co-authorship across countries and institutions is 
encouraged where possible.


The book will be pitched to Palgrave Macmillan, who have already 
expressed a strong interest in the project. The full proposal (including 
author abstracts and bios) will be sent to the publisher very soon after 
the selection process has taken place.


Please e-mail abstracts (250-300 words) plus author bios (100 words per 
author) to (craig.batty /at/ rmit.edu.au) <mailto:(craig.batty /at/ rmit.edu.au)>by 
Monday 2nd October. Draft chapters (4500-5000 words) are likely to be 
due in the middle of 2018, with a final delivery date of late 2018.



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