The Palgrave Handbook of Screenwriting Studies

1.Introduction.- Part I: What Screenwriting ontology: Defining the screenplay and screenwriting.- 2. How to Think about Screenwriting.- 3. Screenplectics: Screenwriting as a Complex Adaptive System.- 4. Collaboration, Cooperation, and Authorship in Screenwriting aka How Many People Does It Take to Create an Author?.- 5. Acts of Reading: The Demands on Screenplay Reading.- 6. The Reality of (Screen) Characters.- 7. "We Come to Realize": Screenwriting and Representations of Time.- 8. The Motion-Picture Screenplay as Data: Quantifying the Stylistic Differences Between Dialogue and Scene Text.- 9. Writer/Reader as Performer: Creating a Negotiated Narrative.-10. An Ontology of the Interactive Scripts.- PART II: When/Where Screenwriting Historiography.- 11. Historiographies of Screenwriting.- 12. They Actually Had Scripts in Silent Films? Researching Screenwriting in the Silent Era.- 13. Silent Screenwriting in Europe: Discourses on Authorship, Form, and Literature.- 14. When Women Wrote Hollywood: How Early Female Screenwriters Disappeared from the History of the Industry They Created. A Case Study of Four Female Screenwriters.- 15. Narrating with Music: Screenwriting Musical Numbers.- 16. Women Screenwriters of Early Sinophone Cinema: 1916-1949.- 17.  A Historiography of Japanese Screenwriting.- 18. Writing Social Relevance: U.S. Television Dramas in the Civil Rights Era.- 19. Horror Bubbles: Andrés Caicedo's Weird Screenplays.- 20. Writers as Workers: The Making of a Film Trade Union in India.- 21. The Evolving Depictions of Black South Africans in the Post-Apartheid Screenwriting Tradition.- PART III: Who Screenwriting and the Screen Industries.- 22. The International Writers' Room: A Transnational Approach to Serial Drama Development from an Italian Perspective.- 23.  Writing Online Drama for Public Service Media in the Era of

Rosamund Davies has a background of professional practice in the screen industries and is Senior Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, UK.

Paolo Russo is Senior Lecturer in Film at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and a former Chairperson of the Screenwriting Research Network. He is also a professional screenwriter.



Claus Tieber teaches Film Studies at universities in Vienna, Brno, Kiel, and Salamanca and is a former Chairperson of the Screenwriting Research Network.