[ecrea] CFP: From Robson Green to Sean Bean: Mapping Northern Stardom on Popular British Television

CFP: From Robson Green to Sean Bean: Mapping Northern Stardom on Popular 
British Television

Special dossier for the Journal of Popular Television
Edited by Beth Johnson (Keele University) and David Forrest (University 
of Sheffield)

We invite contributions that explore the stars of the North of England 
on contemporary British television. Considering and examining the 
intersections between stardom, Northern places, spaces and identities, 
the purpose of this dossier is to argue for the existence of a Northern 
consciousness on television that is characterized through the figure of 
the Northern star. In particular, this dossier is to explore how the 
public and private personas of Northern stars are frequently merged when 
such performers enact or perform Northern characters. Accordingly, we 
would like to receive proposals for full length articles/case-studies of 
specific Northern television stars. In particular, we encourage 
proposals (though proposers are not limited to these) on the following:

-          Robson Green

-          Sean Bean

-          John Simm

-          Sue Johnston

-          Ricky Tomlinson

-          Caroline Aherne

-          Karl Pilkington

-          Sarah Lancashire

-          Chris Bisson

-          Lesley Sharpe

-          Maxine Peake

-          Ant and Dec

-          Christopher Eccleston

-          Gina Mckee

Please submit an extended abstract of 500 words to 
(b.l.johnson /at/ keele.ac.uk) <mailto:(b.l.johnson /at/ keele.ac.uk)> and 
(d.forrest /at/ sheffield.ac.uk) <mailto:(d.forrest /at/ sheffield.ac.uk)> (entitled 
Northern Stardom), by 30th September 2014. Please also include a brief 
biographical note.  We plan to complete evaluation of abstracts by the 
end of October.  Those accepted will be asked to submit completed 
article, to a maximum of 8,000 words, by the end of March 2015. Articles 
will then be submitted for peer review.




Dr David Forrest

Lecturer in Film Studies

The School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
The University of Sheffield
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA


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