[Commlist] Call for Proposals: Edited volume on Screenwriter Jane Anderson

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (due July 15)
Edited volume on Screenwriter Jane Anderson

*Screen Storytelling: *

*The Works of Jane Anderson *

*Edited by Anna Weinstein *

This edited volume on the works of Jane Anderson will be the first book 
in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word 
abstracts for essays on Anderson’s films, television programs, or plays. 
Final essays will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of 
undergraduate and graduate students, and will be due early 2022.

The SCREEN STORYTELLING series is designed for students, professors, and 
enthusiastic consumers of film, television, and new media who seek 
information about contemporary and historically significant 
screenwriters that is both accessible and critically rigorous. The 
intention with this new series is to bring much-deserved attention to 
screenwriters who have developed noteworthy films and television series 
of significant aesthetic or cultural achievement, critical acclaim, or 
commercial success, and to offer close readings of the films and series 
from the perspective of story, screenwriting craft, audience reception, 
and cultural impact. The goal is to help students learn the craft of 
screen storytelling by critically examining the collected works of great 
film and television writers.

*The Works of Jane Anderson *

Jane Anderson has eleven produced films and television movies and 
miniseries, spanning 1993 – 2018, as well as a documentary and a number 
of award-winning plays, some of which she adapted for the screen. Her 
work has left an important imprint on film and television movie history 
to date; yet there are few pieces of critical writing about her films. 
Most of Anderson’s screen stories center on complicated female 
protagonists, and most explore themes to do with navigating complex 
familial relationships, including marriage, same-sex partnerships, and 
motherhood. Adaptation is a critical aspect of Anderson’s screen work as 
she tends to adapt novels written by other female authors or her own plays.

I welcome contributions from scholars of film, television, theatre, or 
popular culture, as well as working practitioners, including 
screenwriters, filmmakers, and playwrights. Essays may explore 
individual works for film, television, or stage, or may interrogate a 
single theme, question, or construct across multiple works.Though I 
expect most essays will offer a critical analysis of Anderson’s work so 
readers can expand their knowledge and understanding of the 
screenwriting craft, several essays in this volume will 
includehistorically sophisticated commentaries,exploring Anderson’s 
career through the lens of production, reception, and creative 
collaborations and dynamics. I am also seeking an essay on the art of 
adaptation, taking a deep dive into several of Anderson’s adapted works 
for the screen, and I am seeking an essay on Anderson’s writing for 
early television. (I am particularly interested in her sitcom/Raising 
Miranda/and her contributions to/The Hidden Room/. I will work to get 
copies of these.)


At this stage, I have colleagues writing on/The Wife, Olive Kitteridge/, 
and/How to Make an American Quilt/. I aim to include one essay on each 
of Anderson’s key works, including/The Positively True Adventures of the 
Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom, It Could Happen to You, The 
Baby Dance, If These Walls Could Talk 2/,/When Billie Beat Bobby, 
Normal,/and/The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio/.

Please submit a 250-word abstract along with a 150-word biographical 
statement to Anna Weinstein ((aweinst6 /at/ kennesaw.edu) 
<mailto:(aweinst6 /at/ kennesaw.edu)>) by*July 15, 2021.*Please title the 
subject line of your email: Abstract – The Works of Jane Anderson.



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