Cirrus@Austlit

'It is an unusual step to publish a collection of unproduced scripts. Rarely, if ever, are scripts treated as texts in their own right and seen as deserving of publication, irrespective of any staging or production. This perceived unpublishable status of unproduced scripts fosters a sense that such scripts are not a suitable focus of scholarly discussion. They are dismissed as somehow amateur or unworthy; this despite the fact that many of the most successful scriptwriters have written at least one script, usually many more, that never ‘made it’ to stage or screen. Are these works somehow less worthy of critical discussion, or weaker examples of the writer’s creative and research processes, than their produced works? I would argue that they are not.' (Author's introduction)