[ecrea] Call for Articles: From TV To Screen: The Critical Relationship Between Popular Television Programmes and their Transition to Film

Call for Articles: From TV To Screen: The Critical Relationship Between 
Popular Television
Programmes and their Transition to Film

The transition of popular television programmes to film is a familiar 
route, but one that has
had mixed results. The list of examples is extensive, from The X Files 
and Sex In The City, to
The Fugitive, Doctor Who, Star Trek and a host of ’70s British Sitcoms, 
and most recently, The
Man From UNCLE – an example that especially highlights the complex 
relationship between
television and film. The transition of television to screen, therefore, 
is a process that not only
relates to contemporary trends in film-making, but one which was 
recognised early on by
Hollywood, and in many respects the 'big screen' remake has often been 
heralded as
prestigious or a sign of success and popularity. Some transitions and 
adaptations have
involved a complete change of circumstances, referencing the franchise 
or original creation
only tenuously, while others have attempted fidelity, usually through 
the retention of the
original cast.

Although there has been plenty of research into filmic remakes (Horton 
and McDougal [1998],
Mazdon [2000], Forrest and Koos [2002], Verevis [2006], Loock and 
Verevis [2012]), there
has been little in the way of research into television-to-screen 
processes and its phenomenon
in film and popular culture studies. This Special Collection for the OLH 
aims to build upon
recent interrogations of TV-to-screen adaptations, most notably, 
Transnational Television
Remakes edited by Constantine Verevis and Claire Perkins (Continuum 
2015), and Constantine
Verevis’s forthcoming chapter “TV to Film” in American Hollywood 2, 
Directory of World
Cinema (Intellect Books, 2015). Understanding the complex formal and 
industrial processes
underpinning the transition of television programmes to screen requires 
a variety of
theoretical approaches, of which adaptation studies has been the most 
visible in film
scholarship to date. However, the transition of a local/national 
television programme to the
global screen should also be considered in terms of cross-cultural 
identity, transnational flows,
transmedial storytelling across different media platforms, and also 
perceived hierarchies within
and across local and global media.

This Special Collection of articles for the Open Library of Humanities 
(OLH) will examine the
critical and often complex relationship between television and film when 
popular television
programmes are re-made for the big screen. The collection therefore aims 
to illuminate the
complex networks of knowledge involved in this process, and to encourage 
a variety of critical
approaches to examining the TV-to-Screen transition.

Papers can include, but are not restricted to, examinations of the 
transitional processes of:

•	Industry and production values
•	Narrative development
•	Character/personnel changes and/or development
•	Plot and scenario transitions
•	Original versus adaptation
•	Failures and successes
•	Long Form versus Seriality
•	The television to screen phenomenon

Research articles should be approximately 8000 words in length, 
including references and a
short bibliography. Submissions should comprise of:

•	Abstract (250 words)
•	Full-length article (8000 words)
•	Author information (short biographical statement of 200 words)

The deadline for submission is: 4th April 2016.

The special collection, edited by Kenneth Longden, is to be published in 
the Open Library of
Humanities (OLH) (ISSN 2056-6700). The OLH is an Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation-funded
open-access journal with a strong emphasis on quality peer review and a 
prestigious academic
steering board. Unlike some open-access publications, the OLH has no 
author-facing charges
and is instead financially supported by an international consortium of 
libraries.

Submissions should be made online at: https://submit.openlibhums.org/ in 
accordance with
the author guidelines and clearly marking the entry as [“FROM TV TO 
SCREEN” SPECIAL
COLLECTION]. Submissions will then undergo a double-blind peer-review 
process. Authors will
be notified of the outcome as soon as reports are received.

To learn more about the Open Library of Humanities please visit:
https://www.openlibhums.org/

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