Cirrus@Austlit

This special issue of TEXT was proposed in order to address the absence in journal publications of unproduced scripts for either stage or screen. Seven scripts have been included, and each of these is a contemporary intervention in the changing landscape of scriptwriting. This special issue addresses a little of the current political economy that affects that landscape. All seven writers are currently working in higher education and are writing or rewriting scripts of one form or another on a permanent basis. The publication of scripts has traditionally only happened post-production, as a kind of validation of the script’s successful production, either for stage or screen. This special issue is a step towards reading these scripts as valued material culture in, and of, themselves.' (Author's introduction)