[ecrea] cfp: The Liveliest Medium

'The Liveliest Medium: Television's aesthetic relationships with other arts'

CFP for a special issue of Critical Studies in Television (Manchester 
University Press), guest editors Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock (2014)

This special issue of Critical Studies in Television explores the 
aesthetic meetings, counterpoints and clashes between television and 
other art forms. While considerable attention has recently been given to 
questions of media convergence in the age of 'TV3', little sustained 
work has focused on the distinct topic of aesthetic relationships 
between television and, for example, poetry, painting, music, dance, 
sculpture, or architecture. The issue also seeks to extend more 
prevalent comparative analysis of television and film, theatre, or the 
novel, developing a more precise vocabulary around terms such as 
'cinematic television' and opening up adaptation studies in terms of 
aesthetic overlaps in style, structure, tone, and attitude.

Contributions are sought on the above matters and that may comprise, 
variously:

* Conceptual examinations of television aesthetics in terms of internal 
dynamics and/or external relationships with other arts
* Sustained critiques of the links between specific series, episodes, or 
television moments, and other arts
* Appraisals of television works that engage with artists or the arts in 
documentary or fictional form
* Explorations of criteria, categorisations and instances of 'cinematic 
television', 'television poetics', and 'the television novel'
* Interpretative work on television as poetry, television as dance (or 
similar)
* Genre and aesthetic connections

For peer-reviewed articles of @6000 words, please send proposals of no 
more than 250 words to (s.peacock /at/ herts.ac.uk) and (j.jacobs /at/ uq.edu.au)


Associate Professor Jason Jacobs
Reader in Cultural History
School of English, Media Studies & Art History,
The University of Queensland, St. Lucia Campus,
Brisbane, Queensland, 4072
Australia

ph: +61 7 3365 2960
fax: +61 7 3365 2799
email: (j.jacobs /at/ uq.edu.au)
www.emsah.uq.edu.au
CRICOS No: 00025B