[Commlist] CFP: Working the Film Script

A polite reminder that prospective speakers have just under two weeks to 
submit abstracts and bios to (scriptwork /at/ exeter.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(scriptwork /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>//(by Wednesday 23^rd January). The 
symposium is gearing up to be a thought-provoking event with a good 
emphasis on revisionist research (to be shared in the perfect venue!), 
and so we very much look forward to reading your proposals later this month.

*Call for Papers*

*Working the Film Script: Hidden Production Histories *

*A Symposium at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, University of Exeter*

*Saturday 23^rd March 2019
Keynote Speaker: Dr Melanie Williams (UEA)*


A symposium to illuminate the otherwise hidden labour of individuals who 
work on/with film scripts, including screenwriters, continuity/script 
supervisors, script editors, text advisors/researchers, subtitlers, 
translators, authors of source literature, legislators, government 
censors and other production roles. The symposium also invites 
revisionist debate around the production of films, screenplays, 
treatments, shooting scripts, fan fiction, promotional synopses and 
other written ‘versions’ which may serve diverse cultural ends.

Film studies has increasingly relied upon collaborative models of 
authorship to avoid overly romantic notions of cultural production. 
Recent production studies and feminist film historiographies 
strategically distinguish the work of academically marginalised agents 
from within their respective networks. Various scripts bear the marks of 
this collaborative process. Speakers are invited to respond to recent 
developments in the field and debate case studies which demonstrate how 
scripting (broadly understood) has involved underappreciated efforts to 
share or silo time, energy and artistic expertise within hierarchical or 
communal production scenarios.

Overall, the symposium aims to evidence the act of scripting film 
narrative and style in historical production contexts, using 
wide-ranging examples of specialist labour: plotting shots, managing 
continuity, literary adaptation, the iterative process of screenwriting, 
selling film stories to audiences, and so on. Another objective will be 
to provide pragmatic production histories that showcase novel 
methodological resources, in keeping with the choice of venue:*The Bill 
Douglas Cinema Museum*.

Among the Museum’s 75,000+ itemsare published and unpublished 
screenplays, novelisations of popular films (including the ‘Reader’s 
Library’ series), source texts, various filmmaking manuals, programmes 
and press books containing plot summaries, and relevant individual 
collections including Gavrik Losey (film producer), Pamela Davies 
(continuity supervisor), and the filmmaker Bill Douglas among 
others.*Delegates will be invited to explore the Museum and browse 
a**sample of items which thematically complement the symposium on the day.*

If you would like to present a paper, please email a 250 word abstract 
and 100 word bio (toscriptwork /at/ exeter.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(scriptwork /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>by*23rd January 2019.*Preference will be 
given to papers which respond to one or more of the following provocations:

1) What academically marginalised production roles are illuminated by 
researching script work in film, broadly understood?

2) How does script work interact with film narrative, style, marketing 
and reception?

3) How does scripting intersect with gender, class, racial and political 
identity?
4) How is script work influenced by transnational workflows, from 
subtitling dialogue to exporting literary ‘properties’?
5) What methodological, archival and technological resources are 
available to researchers of script work in film?

Enquiries addressed (toscriptwork /at/ exeter.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(scriptwork /at/ exeter.ac.uk)>**will be checked byStevenRoberts(PhD 
Student and Museum Intern). The symposium is being coordinated 
byStevenduring a six-month placement at the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum 
(where he is cataloguing the Pamela Davies collection), with 
organisational assistance from University of Exeter colleagues.

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