[ecrea] Critical Studies in Television

>CRITICAL STUDIES IN TELEVISION: special issue
>
>TELEVISION DRAMA IN THE NATIONS AND REGIONS: POLITICS AND REPRESENTATION
>
>Whilst television becomes ever more global in 
>its organisation and reach, with successful 
>drama series seen across the world, there is 
>evidence that audiences often prefer local 
>programmes that have a direct connection with 
>their own social experience (see Nelson 2006). 
>How that experience is conceptualised, and the 
>degree to which it connects to increasingly 
>flammable notions of national identity, is open 
>to question. However, the national and the 
>local/regional are terms that still have some 
>purchase as concepts where television drama is 
>concerned for a number of reasons, with many 
>countries opting to maintain some kind of 
>distinctively national/regional broadcasting 
>ecology, often with a form of public service 
>remit, that recognises the political and 
>cultural importance of locally-produced 
>programming. In the UK, the BBC is committed to 
>producing twenty five per cent of its programmes 
>from what it terms the nations and regions by 
>2016, and culturally and politically distinct 
>areas within Europe, such as Catalonia, have 
>their own broadcasting organisations and programmes.
>
>What kinds of drama are made, and how do they 
>negotiate questions of local and national 
>cultural identity? How is the local/national 
>negotiated within drama that is destined for a 
>wider audience, and how does this differ from 
>drama made for local audiences alone? How are 
>minority languages catered for, and with what 
>aesthetic and political consequences? There are 
>important theoretical questions at issue as well 
> how, for example, might the national be 
>identified in this context, and how might the 
>analysis of television drama contribute to wider 
>debates? Or, how does representation function 
>across different genres and cultures? These are 
>particularly important questions for  small 
>nations  that is, historically, culturally and 
>(sometimes) politically and linguistically 
>distinct nation/regions, whose identity is often 
>marked by their relationships to more powerful neighbours.
>
>With this context, and these questions, in mind, 
>Critical Studies in Television is planning a 
>special issue for Autumn 2011 on national, 
>regional and local television fictions, to be 
>guest-edited by researchers from the Centre for 
>the Study of Media and Culture in Small Nations, 
>University of Glamorgan. This group have 
>recently completed a study for the BBC Trust in 
>Wales on the representation of Wales in recent 
>television drama, with Doctor Who and Torchwood 
>as the major case studies. Contributions are 
>sought on any aspect of the relationship between 
>drama programming and 
>nations/regions/localities, however they are 
>defined, from anywhere in the world. These may 
>include (but should not be limited to) the following:
>    * Case studies of locally-produced drama series/TV films/soaps
>    * Contributions to debates about national identity and TV drama
>    * The structure and organisation of local/national broadcasting
>    * Minority language drama
>    * Screening national dramas internationally
>    * Cultural identity, representation and genre
>    * Remaking successful programmes for a new national context
>    * TV drama in a small nations context
>
>Articles will normally be 4000-6000 words in 
>length, but proposals for shorter or longer articles will be considered.
>
>Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) to 
>Stephen Lacey, to whom enquiries should be 
>addressed, at: 
><mailto:(swlacey /at/ glam.ac.uk)>(swlacey /at/ glam.ac.uk) 
>by 30 November 2010. The editors aim to respond within two weeks.
>
>Completed articles will have a submission 
>deadline of 31 March 2011, for publication in Autumn 2011.
>
><http://www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com/>www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com
>
>
>
>Professor Stephen Lacey
>Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural 
>Industries/Ysgol Diwydiannau Creadigol a Diwylliannol Caerdydd
>University of  Glamorgan/Prifysgol Morgannwg
>ATRiuM
>Adam St/Heol Adam
>Cardiff/Caerdydd CF24 2FN
>tel: 01443-668611 (direct line)
>      01443-480480 (university switchboard)
>(swlacey /at/ glam.ac.uk)
>
>
>
>

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nico Carpentier (Phd)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
T: ++ 32 (0)2-629.18.56
F: ++ 32 (0)2-629.36.84
Office: 5B.401a
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
New Book:
Trans-Reality Television
The Transgression of Reality, Genre, Politics, and Audience.
Lexington. (Sofie Van Bauwel & Nico Carpentier eds.)
http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739131885
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
European Communication Research and Education Association
Web: http://www.ecrea.eu
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
E-mail: (Nico.Carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
Web: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~ncarpent/
----------------------------------------------------------------------- 

----------------
ECREA-Mailing list
----------------
This mailing list is a free service from ECREA.
---
To unsubscribe, please visit http://www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist
---
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
Postal address:
ECREA
Université Libre de Bruxelles
c/o Dept. of Information and Communication Sciences
CP123, avenue F.D. Roosevelt 50, b-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
----------------