About SCRIPTjr.nl
The editors started SCRIPTjr.nl to explore literature's last frontiers. Primarily interested in the theory and interpretation of filmscripts and teleplays, SCRIPTjr.nl nevertheless recognizes that these literary artifacts exist in a hinterland populated by other abject textual forms. To challenge the alterity of such texts, we also cultivate close readings of, and critical investigations into, code arrays, asemic writing, graffiti, tattoos, and other marginal(ized) scripted expressions.
By publishing interviews with screen and television writers, and excerpts from and responses to their work, SCRIPTjr.nl challenges the ignominy of each in the literary community and articulates the roles they play in the contemporary narrative marketplace. SCRIPTjr.nl's interviews with code poets, asemic and tattoo artists, and graffiti writers -- as well as the publication of their work and responses to it -- serve similar purposes.
As a popular-academic hybrid, SCRIPTjr.nl publishes belletristic work that blends academic rigor with the style of (new) journalism. Intellectually challenging and jargon light, we cater our content toward an educated lay audience. As a web-based journal, SCRIPTjr.nl can also publish all manner of (hyper)media including: images, sounds, animations, and videos. Such things support written articles and serve as "essays" in their own rights.
SCRIPTjr.nl's YouTube channel and Flickr photostream serve as citation-documented, effectively permanent, iPad/iPhone-driven archives of tattoos, graffiti, and other marginal(ized) textual forms. Once fleeting, local, and mutable, these scripted expressions can now be captured, circulated, and archived and, perhaps more importantly, (close) read in detail, at leisure. In short, media sharing services like YouTube and Flickr allow these expressions to be analyzed like traditional texts.
At present, SCRIPTjr.nl publishes biannually in January and June. The SCRIPTjr.nl YouTube channel and Flickr photostream continually push work live. Those interested in submitting work for inclusion in either can read about doing so here:
Other links of immediate interest might also include:
» Introduction to SCRIPTjr.nl
» Permissions & Citations
» script@studiohyperset.com
» ISSN: 2150-2498
About the Editors
Quimby Melton lives in Southern California where he directs operations for his boutique hypermedia design firm Studio Hyperset, edits SCRIPTjr.nl, and administers ia(¶). A graduate of the Universities of Georgia (BA, cum laude, '00) and Nevada, Las Vegas (MA, '03; PhD, '08), Quimby studied Anglo-American literature, 20th century art and music, and various new media technologies. He's published work in Bright Lights Film Journal, SCRIPTjr.nl, and other publications and can be reached via Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail/GoogleTalk
Kevin Alexander Boon - Penn State U, Mont Alto
Tim Gaze - Asemic Magazine
David Goldsmith - Writer & Folk Artist
Andrew Horton - Jeanne H. Smith Professor of Film & Video Studies, University of Oklahoma
Michael Jacobson - The New Post-Literate
Lance Lee - Cal State, Northridge
Marsha McCreadie - Fordham University, Lincoln Center
Gary J. Shipley - Writer & Philosopher