Hi Jule,
How are you? I know it has been a while, but Rome was not built in a day, especially when I have taught about 185 students, all writing scripts or creating mangas, in 2011. Quite insane I know, but I think I pulled it off very well as my student feedback level is extremely high. But it slowed down my writing of course. But hurrah, as of today, I now have off from teaching until August! Mini-sabbatical for passing my third year review. So I can crank it up on the writing!
Despite the above distraction, my book (and my already 3-time published Japanese co-author's) on anime/manga's influence on Hollywood and vice versa is coming along very well. After writing a 200 page discovery draft with multiple interviews, I finally have a great theme/thesis and have culled articles out of it for the current issues (now on the newsstands of Script Magazine and Otaku USA). Can you tell me what the subject of the next Screenwriting Journal will be after this issue below? I can easily submit to that journal, if it is within the wheelhouse of this subject matter.
Three publishers are chasing the book...and I will decide on that by the end of winter.
In the mean time, here are some photos from China. As I believe I told you, I was invited there(did not solicit it) to speak about wemakemanga.com- which will be getting great updates of my students new mangas from this semester- and my teaching methods. It was an incredible trip, and all expenses paid and very generous honorariums. It blew my mind, and now the university and their government says they want to enter into a long term/financial/academic/production relationship with me. According to the administrative folks at the university here, that negotiation will take about a year...so we shall see how it turns out. The conclusion ought to happen at about the time I put in my file for tenure (August 2013).
I hope you are doing well and did not lose power in LA! My daughter and wife did, and so did folks Skyping into my classes last week.
Best regards,
Northrop
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Subject: Journal of Screenwriting CFP's - 25th Anniversary of 'The Singing Detective'
Journal of Screenwriting - Call for Papers
25th Anniversary of Dennis Potter’s 'The Singing Detective'
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the original broadcast of the BBC six-part series The Singing Detective, written by Dennis Potter and directed by Jon Amiel, occurs Nov-Dec 2011. As a result of its narrative complexity, generic hybridity and formal experimentation, this series is commonly regarded as a piece of landmark television which inspired and influenced a range of subsequent television drama in the UK and elsewhere.
We call for papers for a special edition of the journal to be co-edited by John Hill, John Ellis and Adam Ganz ( all Royal Holloway University of London) to commemorate this anniversary and to look at the legacy of Dennis Potter, and authored and non-naturalistic television.
Papers may be on the following subjects but are not limited to:
The Singing Detective
Potter and his contribution and legacy
Screenwriting for non-naturalistic drama particularly in a TV context Screenplays and songs Narrative complexity, generic hybridity and formal experimentation in the screenplay Television screenwriting.
The author in television
The author and the commissioning environment
We are also keen to collect memories, positive and negative, from screenwriters and academics as a result of watching The Singing Detective, how they thought about it at the time, and what if anything it means to them now.
Articles submitted should be between 4000 and 8000 words in length and include a 200 word abstract.
The deadline for papers is 30th June 2012. Please send to either Adam Ganz ( adam.ganz @rhul.ac.uk) or Jill Nelmes( [log in to unmask]), to whom any queries about suitability of subject or other requirements may be addressed.
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