[ecrea] CFP TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires

TV Fangdom: A Conference on Television Vampires

7-8 June 2013

The University of Northampton



Vampires have always made charismatic characters and with the rise of 
the VILF and the fangbanger they are more popular than ever. This 
conference aims to explore the vampire particularly in relation to its 
presence on television. From Barnabas Collins to the Count von Count, 
from Mona the Vampire to True Blood’s Pam, vampires appear everywhere on 
television schedules and in television history, whether in serials, 
made-for-TV movies, adaptations of gothic novels, adverts or children’s 
TV. How has the vampire mythos been tailored for TV? Does the vampire’s 
appearance on a domestic medium like television blunt its fangs and tame 
its hypersexuality? What kind of audience have TV vampires attracted and 
how has their popularity been exploited? In what ways has the vampire 
been remade for different eras of television, different TV genres, or 
different national contexts?



Keynote and featured speakers:

·         Brigid Cherry, editor of True Blood: Investigating Vampires 
and Southern Gothic and author of Horror (Routledge Film Guidebook)

·         Marcus Recht, author of Der Sympatische Vampir

·         Catherine Spooner, author of Contemporary Gothic



Proposals are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:

    * TV’s development and appropriation of the reluctant vampire
    * Vampire hunters on TV
    * The vampire as allegory
    * Issues of gender and sexuality
    * Narrative and structure
    * Different formats (miniseries, animation, made-for-TV movie)
    * Adaptation
    * Visual style
    * Sound and music
    * Special effects
    * Scheduling
    * Marketing and advertising
    * New media, ancillary materials and extended narratives
    * Intersection with other media (novels, films, comics, video 
games, music)
    * Audience and consumption (including fandom)
    * Genre hybridity
    * The vampire and children’s television
    * Inter/national variants
    * Translation and dubbing

We will be particularly interested in proposals on older TV shows, on 
those that have rarely been considered as vampire fictions, and on 
analysis of international vampire TV. The conference organisers welcome 
contributions from scholars within and outside universities, including 
research students, and perspectives are invited from different disciplines.



Please send proposals (250 words) for 20 minute papers plus a brief 
biography (100 words) to all three organisers by 16th December 2012.

(s.abbott /at/ roehampton.ac.uk)

(lorna.jowett /at/ northampton.ac.uk)

(mike.starr /at/ northampton.ac.uk)



Conference Website: http://tvfangdom.wordpress.com/









Dr Lorna Jowett

Reader, Film and Television Studies

University of Northampton

Avenue Campus

St George's Avenue

Northampton

NN2 6JD

01604 893294

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