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Dear Colleagues Apologies for cross-posting Here are the details of the latest London Screenwriting Research Seminar on Thursday December 5th at 1800 In Senate House Malet Street, WC1 (nearest tube Russell Square.) Writing for the Red Screen: Screenwriters in the State-socialist Mode of Production in 1950's and 1960's Czechoslovakia Petr Szczepanik (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) This talk will explore screenwriting practice in the state-socialist regime of former Czechoslovakia from a production-studies perspective, taking as an example the new-wave screenwriter and director Pavel Juráček and his mentor František (Frank) Daniel to describe the structural position of screenwriter and institutional conditions for artistic innovation in that production system in the 1950s and 1960s. More generally, it will touch on the social and cultural logics of collaborative creative work under political influence. In terms of sources, it will discuss how empirical historical research in screenwriting can be undertaken by making sense of the vast screenplay collections and personal files in several Prague archives. Bio: Petr Szczepanik is an Associate Professor at Masaryk University, Brno; a researcher at the National Film Archive, Prague; and editor of the Czech film journal Iluminace. His most recent book is Canned Words: The Coming of Sound Film and Czech Media Culture of the 1930s (in Czech, 2009); he has also (co)edited several books on the history of film thought, including Cinema All the Time: An Anthology of Czech Film Theory and Criticism, 1908-1939 (2008). His current research focuses on the Czech (post)socialist production system, whose results will be partly published in Behind the Screen. Inside European Production Culture (Palgrave, co-edited with Patrick Vonderau). He is the main coordinator of an EU-funded project "FIND" which uses student internships in production companies to combine job shadowing with ethnographic research of production cultures. In 2012, he organized an international workshop "Theorizing Screenwriting Practice: An East-Central European Perspective". His latest article is "How Many Steps to The Shooting Script? Political History of Screenwriting" (in a German journal montage AV). The Session will be recorded and made available on the Institute of English Studies website The London Screenwriting Research Seminar is supported by the Institute of English Studies and Royal Holloway University of London Adam Ganz Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX 01784 443734 Adam Ganz Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX 01784 443734 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------