Guest-edited by Olivier Asselin and Isabelle Raynauld

With the Industrial Revolution and the post-industrial revolution, the growth of mass culture and the appearance of cinema, television and video games, audiovisual narrative became a dominant cultural form. Paradoxically, the script, understood here in the narrow sense of a text setting out the story and dialogue, remains a central document in the making of a film, a series, a game or any other audiovisual work, not only at the stage of conception and development but also at every other stage, from pre-production to post-production, filming to editing, financing to distribution. In the present book, we will examine some of the techniques and technologies of scripting audiovisual narratives.