[ecrea] Call for Papers: 'Invisible Television'

> Proposals for papers are invited for a forthcoming special edition 
> of Critical Studies in Television 
> (<http://www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com/>http://www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com/) 
> to be published in Spring 2010.
>
> Invisible Television
> Certain television programmes get watched by lots of people (Top 
> Gear, New Tricks, Antiques Roadshow, Emmerdale): certain programmes 
> get written about a lot (The Office, Big Brother, The Wire). This 
> means that some television programmes are far more visible to the 
> academic and critical community than others. This special edition 
> aims to offer space for such invisible programmes to be explored, 
> offering new models for the critical enquiry of television, as well 
> as examining why it is that there so often seems to be a disparity 
> between what mass audiences watch and what the academy chooses to 
> write about. While this topic may be of concern to global studies of 
> television, this issue aims to focus on television in the UK as an 
> initial case study for these debates.
>
> Proposals are invited that explore: specific programmes 
> conventionally invisible to academic writing; particular genres 
> conventionally invisible to academic writing; debates concerning the 
> misfit between academic consumption of television and that of mass 
> audiences; methodological debates relevant to visibility and 
> invisibility; consequences of visibility and invisibility; other 
> relevant approaches and issues. The editors are particularly keen to 
> receive proposals on Antiques Roadshow; New Tricks; wildlife 
> documentaries; My Family; The One Show.
>
> Note: submissions have already been commissioned on soap operas; Top 
> Gear; The Bill; issues of access via DVD; issues of 'quality' in 
> television drama; and the relationships between teaching and invisibility.
>
> Please forward 200-word proposals by 4 May 2009 to Brett Mills 
> (<mailto:(brett.mills /at/ uea.ac.uk)>(brett.mills /at/ uea.ac.uk)); any enquiries 
> to this address also.
> Completed articles of 5-6,000 words will have a submission deadline 
> of 5 October 2009, for publication in Spring 2010.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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