[ecrea] call for articles: From TV to Screen

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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