ANDREW DAVIES: THE SCREENWRITER AS ADAPTOR’
DEADLINE: 31ST JULY 2016
In celebration of the newly created Andrew Davies archive at De Montfort University, Leicester, The Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance is issuing a special edition on the British screenwriter. This special edition seeks to initiate a critical appraisal of Daviesâ?? work, situating analysis of individual productions within the context of a wider oeuvre and interrogating the role of the screenwriter/adaptor within the adaptive process.
We invite essays of approximately 4,000 â?? 6,000 words on Daviesâ?? work and more broadly, on the role of the screenwriter/adaptor in the adaptation process. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
â?¢ The role of the screenwriter in adaptation
â?¢ The adaptation industry
â?¢ The heritage industry
â?¢ The BBC
â?¢ Marketing period drama
â?¢ Adapting historical fiction
â?¢ Adapting the literary canon
â?¢ Classic novel adaptation
â?¢ Authorship
â?¢ Television drama
â?¢ Gender and race in period adaptation
Please email essays as well as queries or expressions of interest to guest editors Anna Blackwell, anna.blackwell@dmu.ac.uk, Deborah Cartmell, djc@dmu.ac.uk and Natalie Hayton, natalie.hayton@dmu.ac.uk. Please include your name, research area and affiliation (if applicable) in all correspondence.
THE DEADLINE FOR ESSAYS IS THE 31ST JULY 2016.