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Dear Colleagues Apologies for cross-posting and any unreadable or corrupted emails you may have received. This is due to an incompatibility between Microsoft and Safari and nothing whatsoever to do with any theses that I have about the screenplay as an oral form. 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. The Session will be recorded and made available on the Institute of English studies website The London Screenwriting Research Seminar is supported by the Insitute of Englsih Studies and Royal Holloway University of London Adam Ganz Department of Media Arts, Royal Holloway University of London Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX 01784 443734