Suggested Reading

Open TV shows how we have left “the network era” far behind and entered the networked era, with the web opening up new possibilities for independent producers, entrepreneurs, and media audiences. Based on interviews with writers, producers, show-runners, and network executives, visits to festivals and award shows, and the experience of producing his own series, Aymar Jean Christian argues that the web brought innovation to television by opening up series development to new producers, fans, and sponsors that had previously been excluded. Online access to distribution provides creative freedom for indie producers, allows for more diverse storytelling from marginalized communities, and introduces new ways of releasing and awarding shows.

Open TV is essential reading for anyone interested in the changing environment of television and how the internet can inspire alternatives to what’s on TV tonight.

Author Jess King explores how existing paradigms of screenplays often exclude the very people watching films and TV today. Taking aspects such as characterization, screenplay structure, and world-building, King offers ways to ensure your screenplays are inclusive and allow for every person’s story to be heard. In addition to examples ranging from Sorry to Bother You to Portrait of a Lady on Fire, four case studies on Killing Eve, Sense8, I May Destroy You, and Vida ground the theoretical work in practical application. The book highlights the ways in which screenplays can authentically represent and uplift the lived experiences of those so often left out of the narrative, such as the LGBTQIA+ community, women, and people of color. The book addresses a current demand for more inclusive and progressive representation in film and TV and equips screenwriters with the tools to ensure their screenplays tell authentic stories, offering innovative ways to reimagine current screenwriting practice towards radical equity and inclusion.

This is a timely and necessary book that brings the critical lenses of gender studies, queer theory, and critical race studies to bear on the practice of screenwriting, ideal for students of screenwriting, aspiring screenwriters, and industry professionals alike.

Curatorial Justice is Narrative Change

How to Build a Restorative Media Arts System

Coming Soon - DIVIDE: the complete graphic novel. A 180pp sci-fi epic about family separation & the infectious power of hate. The complete collection, with previously unreleased issues! It’s the near future in a world very much like our own. Salim is a husband and father separated from his family, and imprisoned indefinitely in a high tech detention center with countless other Muslims and immigrants. After being held for years under vile conditions by brutal Guards for dark purposes, Salim and his allies have finally hatched a plan to liberate themselves and return home. But can they escape before this prison’s supernatural secret consumes them all? And if they do, will they even recognize the world they left behind? Sadly more timely than ever, this story explores how we might begin to repair a world that has been consumed by hate.