[ecrea] CfP: Historiographic research in screenwriting

Call for Papers: Historiographic Research in Screenwriting

The Journal of Screenwriting is calling for articles for a special issue 
on the historiography of screenwriting, to be published in November 2019.
The Journal wants to emphasize the importance of screenwriting history 
and historiographical research, covering the broad field from media 
archaeology to historical case studies to a crisis historiography that 
includes questions of format, copyrights, professionalization, and 
narrative structure.
In order to better understand the role of screenwriting in filmmaking as 
well as in academic research, it is our task to scrutinize the 
development of the craft, profession, and art: the discourses, the 
pedagogy, and the analysis of screenplays, script development and the 
work of specific screenwriters and their importance for the development 
of screenwriting.
Articles may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

• Pre-screenplay documents in Early Cinema
• Screenwriting and Screenwriters in silent cinema
• The history of the format
• Screenwriting and historical modes of production
• Global histories and local case studies
• Historiography of manuals and screenwriting pedagogy
• Female Screenwriters (especially in the silent era)
• National and global tendencies – relations, influences, cultural transfers
• Censorship and screenwriting
• Development: analysis of script developments in historical case studies
• Screenplay as literature: published screenplays in the 1920s
• Autorenkino in Germany in the 1910s and 20s
• Eminent authors: case studies of established writers and their fate in 
the industry
• Screenwriting and the literary avant-garde
• Social history of screenwriters, working conditions, reputation, etc.
• Theoretical questions of authorship based on historical evidence (e.g. 
the case of the American Author’s Association AAA)

In the first instance, please email abstracts of up to 400 words and a 
short biography, no later than Wednesday 16 January 2019 to BOTH of the 
editors of this special issue:

Claus Tieber, (claus.tieber /at/ univie.ac.at) <mailto:(claus.tieber /at/ univie.ac.at)>

Steven Price, (s.t.price /at/ bangor.ac.uk) <mailto:(s.t.price /at/ bangor.ac.uk)>

Completed articles of between 4000 and 8000 words should be sent by 29 
April 2019 via the Journal of Screenwriting’s web page, where you can 
also access information on the journal’s house style:

https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journ…/view-journal,id=182/

The Journal of Screenwriting is an international peer-reviewed journal 
published three times p.a. by Intellect, and is abstracted and indexed 
by Thomson Reuters: ISI Web of Knowledge, MLA and FIAF. It explores the 
nature of writing for the screen image; this includes not only writing 
for film and television but also computer games and animation. The 
journal highlights current academic and professional thinking about the 
screenplay and intends to promote, stimulate and bring together current 
research and contemporary debates around the screenplay whilst 
encouraging groundbreaking research in an international arena. The 
journal is discursive, critical, rigorous and engages with issues in a 
dynamic and developing field, linking academic theory to screenwriting 
practice.


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