[Commlist] CFP - Journal of Screenwriting, Special Issue: Female Screenwriters

The Journal of Screenwriting is calling for articles for a special issue 
with a focus on female screenwriters, to be published in 
August/September 2020.

The Journal wants to emphasize the importance of female screenwriters 
across eras, genres, mediums. This importance may arise from an analysis 
of bodies of work, from individual scripts written by women, or from 
case studies where female screenwriters have worked collaboratively to 
express screen stories. Articles may also include women’s work behind 
the scenes in advocating for/promoting greater gender equality within 
screenwriting milieux. Articles on female screenwriters from diverse 
cultural backgrounds are encouraged.

Articles may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:

  * Female screenwriters in silent cinema
  * The influence of female writer(-directors) in contemporary culture
  * Case studies on individual screenwriter’s work, collaborations
    between women, or on how women-centred stories have been brought to
    the screen
  * Historiography of manuals and screenwriting pedagogy where this
    reflects the work of female screenwriters
  * National and global tendencies with regard to women within
    screenwriting – relations, influences, cultural transfers
  * Censorship and women’s stories and women’s writings
  * Biographies of female screenwriters of any era
  * Female screenwriters within writing partnerships
  * The work of female screenwriters within script production (e.g. as
    showrunners, script editors or consultants)
  * The question of a female voice within screenwriting

In the first instance, please email abstracts of up to 400 words and a 
short biography, no later than *Friday October 4, 2019* to *both* of the 
editors of this special issue:

Rosanne Welch: (rosanne /at/ welchwrite.com) <mailto:(rosanne /at/ welchwrite.com)>

Rose Ferrell: (rosieglow /at/ westnet.com.au) <mailto:(rosieglow /at/ westnet.com.au)>

Completed articles of between 4000 and 8000 words should be sent by end 
January 2020 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/journals/view-journal,id=182/

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Peer review and acceptance/rejection will be completed by end of May 
2020. Rewrites will be due by end of July 2020.

The *Journal of Screenwriting* is an international peer-reviewed journal 
published three times annually 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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