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

Mon Jul 10 16:28:41 GMT 2017






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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