Script Development: Critical Approaches, Creative Practices, International Perspectives

Part 1: Looking into Script Development: Theories on Practice.- 1. Originality, and Development of the Screen Idea, Ian W. Macdonald.- 2. How Government Policy Defines Script Development: Comparative Case Studies of Screen Australia and the Danish Film Institute, Radha O'Meara and Cath Moore.- 3. Screenplay Development and the Post-Socialist Producer: A Small-Market Perspective, Petr Szczepanik.- 4. The Persistence of Cultural Vision: Australian Screenwriting 1994-2013, Glenda Hambly.- 5. Beyond Stereotype: Collaborative Script Development for Stories about Mental Illness and Suicide, Fincina Hopgood.- 6. Network Television Writers and the 'Race Problems' of 1968, Caryn Murphy.- 7. Telling Stories about Yesterday's Hero for Today's World: The Script Development of Chilean TV series Heroes (2006-2007), Carmen Sofia Brenes, Margaret McVeigh and Alejandro C. Reid.- 8. Author and Screenwriter Working Together on an Adapted Script: The Case of O quatrilho, Clarissa Mazon Miranda.- 9. Establishing a Shared Cultural Domain within European Co-Production: Nordic Noir as Boundary Object, Rosamund Davies.- Part 2: Looking out from Script Development: Practice into Theory.- 10. Holding Ground and Moving Targets: Scripting Urban Terror in East Africa, Joshua McNamara.- 11. Screenplay Development and Social Change in Papua New Guinea, Mark Eby.- 12. Uncertainty, Risk and Entering Unsafe Territory: Exploring the Writing Process of a New Zealand Indigenous Screenwriter, Christina Milligan.- 13. So Much Drama, So Little Time: Script Development in Australian Fast Turnaround Serial Drama, Philippa Burne and Noel Maloney.- 14. Finding the Beats in the TV Sitcom, D.T. Klika15. The Promiscuous Screenplay: Writing with Anything and Everything, Siobhan Jackson.- 16. Subjects of the Gaze: Script Development as Performance, Emma Bolland and Louise Sawtell.