Hi all,

Sorry. I missed the due date. Are you still willing to accept abstracts? I can send mine before the 30th. Please let me know...

Thanks,

María Teresa DePaoli Ph.D 
Assistant Professor of Spanish
Department of Modern Languages 
College of Arts and Sciences 
104 Eisenhower Hall 
Kansas State University 
Manhattan, Kansas 66506 
Phone: (785) 532-1923 
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Subject: Words and Images: Screenwriting Research Conference

Dear colleagues,

I attach the Call for Papers for the next Screenwriting Research Conference, co-organised by Alex Munt and Kathryn  Millard at Macquarie University, Sydney.

Best wishes

ian



Call for Papers

Words & Images: Screenwriting Research
5th Screenwriting Research Network International Conference

September 14th-16th, 2012
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

This is a call for papers for the annual international conference on screenwriting research,
this year organised by the Department of Media, Music, Communication & Cultural Studies
at Macquarie University. The Screenwriting Research Network is a research group that
commenced in 2006 within the Louis Le Prince Research Centre, at the Institute of
Communication Studies (ICS), University of Leeds. The network has achieved a critical mass
in recent years with conferences taking place in Leeds (2008), Helsinki (2009), Copenhagen
(2010) and Brussels (2011). The fifth conference widens the geographic spread of the
network to the Asia-Pacific, taking place in Sydney, Australia (2012).
The international Screenwriting Research Network is comprised of scholars, writers and
practice-based researchers devoted to rethinking the screenplay in relation to its histories,
theories, values and creative practices. The aim of the conference is to continue, and
expand, discussions around the screenplay and to strengthen a rapidly emerging, and
global, research network. The Journal of Screenwriting, since 2009, stands testament to the
vitality of the screenwriting network across traditional and practice-based research. This is
in addition to growth in publication of screenwriting monographs by scholars in the
network, for example screenwriting books by Stephen Price, Steven Maras, JJ Murphy and
Jill Nelmes to name a few.
The key theme of the conference is ‘Words & Images’. This speaks to the complex,
intertwined, and ephemeral relationships between words and images that screenwriters
negotiate. Alain Robbe-Grillet claimed ‘conceiving of a screen story would mean already
conceiving of it in images’ (1961). While Gary Davis suggested that a screenplay is a ‘story
told with word-pictures’ (Price: 2010). In the age of media convergence, screenwriting
forms and practices intersect, in new and unpredictable ways, with other forms that unite
words and images: the graphic novel, the comic, illustration, the graphic essay, visual arts
and interactive media.

Keynote speakers will be confirmed in the new year, 2012.

We would like to invite abstracts for research presentations on (but not limited to) the
following topics:
• The history of screenwriting around the globe
• Screenwriting archival research
• Theorising screenwriting and the screenplay
• Reflections on narrative theory and dramaturgy
• Pedagogy of screenwriting
• Practice-based research
• Process-based investigations of creative screenwriting
• Scripting and digital scripting processes
• Screenwriting as research
• Authorship frameworks in screenwriting
• Screen adaptation and the nexus of adaptation studies and screenwriting
• The question of the auteur in screenwriting
• Case studies on individual writers or texts
• Collaborative modes of writing for the screen
!
• Screenwriting manifestos
• Screenwriting for Independent cinema
• Cinematic writing
• Questions of intermediality in the digital age
• Cross-fertilisation between screenwriting and other media
• Screenwriting for interactive and online media (games, webisodes)
• Transmedial screenwriting
• The role of writing in non-fiction film!
• Screenwriting for animation
• Writing for episodic television: are we experiencing a new ‘golden age’?
• Genre-orientated considerations of screenwriting and the screenplay

Call for Papers
Time allotted to each paper is 20 minutes plus discussion. Abstracts (250-300 words) may
be submitted until December 12, 2011. Earlier submissions are welcome. Please
remember to state your name, affiliation and contact information. Include a brief
statement (100 words) detailing your publications and/or screenwriting practice.

Please send your abstract to Alex Munt: [log in to unmask]
More information on the program as well as cost, travelling and accommodation details
will be available on the conference website at
http://www.mmccs.mq.edu.au/wordsandimages

The conference is supported by the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney and is
organised with assistance from the Screenwriting Research Network.

For further information, please contact Kathryn Millard, [log in to unmask] or
Alex Munt, [log in to unmask] at the Department of Media, Music, Communication and
Cultural Studies, Macquarie University.

Conference Co-Directors:
Professor Kathryn Millard, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural
Studies, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University
Dr Alex Munt, Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Faculty
of Arts, Macquarie University