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[ecrea] Cfp for book on popular television and (post)socialism

Sat Oct 10 06:30:30 GMT 2009



 Call for Proposals

Entertaining a New Europe: Popular Television in Socialist and Postsocialist Eastern Europe, edited by Timothy Havens (University of Iowa), Aniko Imre (University of Southern California), and Katalin Lustyik (Ithaca College)

��We welcome contributions for a proposed edited volume, Entertaining a New Europe: Popular Television in Socialist and Postsocialist Eastern Europe. Please send a brief abstract (200-300 words) and biographical statement (50-100 words) to (timothy-havens /at/ uiowa.edu) and/or (imre /at/ usc.edu) by December 1, 2009.
Papers will be due in the fall of 2010.��

This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in popular television in Eastern Europe, including both contemporary and historical studies. This increased attention follows the â??New Europeâ??sâ?? transition from state-controlled, relatively isolated national media systems to an increasingly integrated European media sphere thoroughly permeated by processes of globalization and media convergence. Televisionâ??s transformation has been especially spectacular, evolving from a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and heavily filtered Western programming to an increasingly deregulated, multi-platform, transnational system delivering predominantly American and Western European entertainment programming. Consequently, the nations of Eastern Europe provide opportunities to examine the complex interactions among economic and funding systems, regulatory policies, globalization, imperialism, popular culture, and cultural identity. We intend this collection to be the first serious effort to establish critical television studies in relation to Eastern Europe.â?¨â?¨

Essays may address any aspect of popular television in Eastern Europe, including the following: the histories of socialist and postsocialist television; national and regional program flows during socialism and today; the socialist satellite system; television program trade; censorship; East-West connections during socialism and today; cross-border television, convergence and globalization; Europeanization, television and national identity; gender and television in Eastern Europe; quality TV; educational television; childrenâ??s television; popular television genres (e.g. soap operas, serial dramas) and television formats (e.g. reality shows, game shows); fandom and stardom; nostalgia; advertising; television and new media; television and film; socialism, consumerism and consumption.

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