[ecrea] CFP: Edited Collection on Corporate Crime and Conspiracy in Contemporary Television

Please find below a call for papers for an edited collection on 
corporate crime and conspiracy in contemporary television.

While unscrupulous corporate executives and the unethical behaviour of 
Big Business have long been staples of Hollywood cinema, the last 
fifteen to twenty years have seen a worldwide explosion of interest in 
these themes on the small screen. Perhaps reflecting a growing public 
awareness that it is now companies rather than governments who are the 
holders of true global power (an idea popularised by the likes of Naomi 
Klein’s international bestseller /No Logo /and the documentary /The 
Corporation/), a plethora of television drama series featuring corporate 
crime and conspiracy have appeared in recent years, produced by a range 
of countries from Europe, North America, Asia and beyond. The proposed 
volume seeks to explore this phenomenon, which, as yet, has received 
little critical attention. Our hope is that it will provide a 
jumping-off point on which future work can build.


Chapters may focus on any fiction television (including VOD) programme/s 
that debuted no earlier than 1995. We would especially welcome 
contributions dealing with programmes from countries other than the UK 
and USA. Some examples of these include: /Blue Eyes///Blä ögon /(Sweden, 
2014-2015), /À droite toute /(France, 2008), /The Code /(Australia, 
2014- ), /Follow the Money///Bedrag /(Denmark, 2016- ), /Continuum 
/(Canada, 2012-2015), /Charlie Jade /(South Africa/Canada, 2005), /Mario 
/(Italy, 2013-2014), /Pied Piper///Piribuneun Sanai /(South Korea, 2016- 
) and /Pokémon: The Series /(Japan, 1997- ). For further examples, see 
the list here 
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U9FAUcS1nXVp2XFEnY_Z9OoqgKpN6Vlparo2IfDCvkk/edit?usp=sharing> 
(please note: this is a crowd-sourced document so we can’t guarantee the 
accuracy of the information contained in it).


Though not prescriptive, the following list of topics may provide 
inspiration:

  * Studies of the televisual representation of:
      o Complicity and cooperation between governments and corporations
      o Private military contractors and the corporatised war industry
      o Corporations as the new exercisers of biopolitical control (e.g.
        in shows featuring bio-research firms, such as /Fringe /and
        /Orphan Black/)
      o Corporate espionage
      o Corporate lobby groups (e.g. arms, pharmaceuticals, tobacco)
      o Unethical corporations in programmes primarily aimed at children
        (e.g. /Pokémon/, /Captain Planet/, /Sesame Street/) //
      o Corporate malfeasance and the environment
  * Studies of the representation of corporate crime and conspiracy
    across the work of particular writers or showrunners (e.g. Joss
    Whedon, Rob Thomas)
  * Studies of the representation of corporate crime and conspiracy
    across a single, long-running programme (e.g. “The Sun Makers” in
    classic /Doctor Who/; Cybus Enterprises in the reboot)
  * Corporative narratives and genre
  * Corporate narratives and gender
  * Corporate conspiracies and dystopian or end-of-the-world narratives
  * The influence of earlier conspiracy texts (e.g. Pakula’s “paranoia
    trilogy”) on more recent televisual examples
  * Subversions or parodies of the corporate conspiracy trope
  * Contrasting corporate narratives in different environments (e.g. how
    are these narratives portrayed or received in the UK vs. Germany, or
    US vs. India?)
  * Extra-textual analyses of corporate conspiracy narratives.

Please send any questions or abstracts of 300-400 words for chapters of 
approximately 6000 words plus a short biography to 
(corporateconspiracybook /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(corporateconspiracybook /at/ gmail.com)> by the 15th of September 
2016. First drafts of chapters will be due by the 15th of January 2017. 
We are in contact with an interested publisher and envisage a 2018 
publication date.


Editors: Dr Erin Giannini (independent scholar and TV editor for 
/PopMatters/) and Dr Eve Bennett (London Metropolitan University).


Book website: https://corporateconspiracy.wordpress.com/ 
<https://corporateconspiracy.wordpress.com/>.


We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Best wishes,

Eve and Erin

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