[Commlist] cfc: The Works of Amy Sherman-Palladino

Call for Book Chapters

The Works of Amy Sherman-Palladino

Edited by Patricia Prieto-Blanco (Lancaster University, UK) and Cristina 
Pérez Ordóñez (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

Book Series: Screen Storytelling, Bloomsbury. Series Editor: Anna Weinstein

The Screen Storytellersseries 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 series is to bring much-deserved attention to screen 
and television writers 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. Volumes explores the works of a 
single screen storyteller. The series places a strong focus on works by 
screenwriters often left out of classroom syllabi, including women, 
writers of color, LGBTQ writers, and international writers.

The Works of Amy Sherman-Palladino will be the first volume to explore 
the fruitful albeit ever challenging career of Amy Sherman-Palladino 
from a screenwriting and production perspective. In doing so, The Works 
of Amy Sherman-Palladino aims to complement Ryan’s and Bushman’s 2019 
volume “The Women of Amy Sherman Palladino”. Daughter of a comedian and 
a dancer, her writing is funny, fast, full of references to pop and high 
culture, and her characters always perform complicated verbal and 
spatial choreographies. This book will celebrate her particular and very 
popular style of writing, explore writing as a collaborative act (as ASP 
often writes with her husband), as well as considering how the rhythm of 
her dialogues is translated into visual strategies. Thus, while centring 
on her screenwriting career, The Works of Amy Sherman-Palladinoalso 
considers her as a director and producer.

In order to connect with the target audience of the book series Screen 
Storytellers, final essays will be 3.000 – 3.500 words (including 
references). The contributions will address the work of Amy 
Sherman-Palladino as mentioned above and below, as well as in other 
relevant ways we may have missed.

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    Working in tandem: Amy and Daniel Sherman-Palladino

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    The role of dialogue in character development in the work of ASP

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    Fashion as a silent character in the work of ASP

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    Sculpting tumultuous mother-daughter relationships: role of
    dialogue, body language, and fashion

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    Transforming quick words into dynamic visuals: ASP as a director

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    Directing for spontaneity while preserving the textual integrity of
    the script: director-performer relationships

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    The writing of ASP at service of someone else's story: "Roseanne",
    "Can't Hurry Love", "Veronica's Closet"

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    Writing women's stories with a limited budget: "Love and Marriage",
    "Gilmore Girls", "The Return of Jezebel James"

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    Writing when sky is the limit: "Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life",
    "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"

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    The role of music in the writing and directing of ASP

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    Mise en scene and charachter development in ASP

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    The role of audiences in elevating the work of ASP to cult status

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    Representation of women’s careers and life balance

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    Representation of sorority

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    Representation of (single) motherhood

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    Representation of (rural) community life

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    Treatment of gender and/or race in Amy Sherman Palladino’s work

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    Treatment of sexuality in Amy Sherman Palladino’s work

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    Recurring themes in Amy Sherman Palladino’s shows

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    Viewer response / critics’ response

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    Fandom in the Harris-verse

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    Deep dives into individual series (pilots and/or individual episodes)

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    The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017 – 2023)

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    Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016)

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    Bunheads (2012-2013)

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    The Wyoming Story (2010)

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    The Return of Jezebel James (2008)

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    The Gilmore Girls (200-2007)

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    Veronica’s Closet (1997-1998)

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    Love and Marriage (1996)

Please, send a long-abstract (250 words, plus references) along with a 
150-word biographical statement to (p.prieto-blanco /at/ lancaster.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(p.prieto-blanco /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)>and (cristinaperezordonez /at/ uma.es) 
<mailto:(cristinaperezordonez /at/ uma.es)>by 20thof Novemver 2024. Please 
title the subject line of your email: Abstract – The Works of Amy 
Sherman Palladino. Direct any questions or inquiries to this email 
address as well. We welcome submissions from scholars at all stages of 
their careers, as well as practicing and aspiring screen and television 
writing professionals. Feel free to contact us with any questions about 
the book, and please share this announcement with colleagues whose work 
aligns with the focus of this volume.

We aim to inform potential authors of the outcome of their proposal in 
February 2025.

Abstracts (150 w.) due November 20th2024.

For questions about the SCREEN STORYTELLERS book series, contact Anna 
Weinstein at (aweinst6 /at/ kennesaw.edu) <mailto:(aweinst6 /at/ kennesaw.edu)>. For 
more information, visit 
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/superpages/academic/screen-storytellers-series/ 
<https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/superpages/academic/screen-storytellers-series/>or 
see the link to the first book in the series, The Works of Shonda 
Rhimes: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/works-of-shonda-rhimes-9781501399701/


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