[ecrea] CF Chapters: ‘This Country: UK comedy cultures’

*CF Chapters: ‘This Country: UK comedy cultures’*

Dr. Jill Marshall, organiser of the 2017 Value of Comedy symposium at 
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and Dr. Mary Irwin, author (with 
Gabrielle Smith) of “Ah hink it's time for suttin blue n a BAILEYS!" - 
Subverting Scottish Male Identities in Gary: Tank Commander”, 
/International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen/ (Special Issue) 
TV in /Scotland: Past, Present and Future/ (2018) , “The Rag Trade - A 
History of British TV Comedy - Cultural Concepts and Contexts”  Jurgen 
Kamm and Birgit Neuman (eds)  Palgrave  (2016 ) and “That’s the Last 
Time I Play the Tart for You, Jerry!” /Critical Studies in Television/, 
Special Issue: “Acting Up: Gender and Television Comedy” 10:2 (2015) …

… invite proposals for chapter contributions to a new collection which 
will bring together work on UK comedy with emphasis on its regions and 
cultures.

The UK has a rich, varied history of comedy which consistently 
chronicles the details of British lives and experiences. Despite its 
often high international profile in the form of television and cinema, 
and the extent to which comedy is valued in Britain, UK comedy remains 
significantly under-explored and under theorised within the academy.

                 This call for papers invites scholars working broadly 
in the area of UK comedy to contribute to an edited collection which 
will explore UK media comedy in more depth.

                 We are interested in all forms of comedy in the widest 
range of electronic media: television, radio, podcasts, cinema and other 
films, game or other interactive formats, streamed or available on 
internet media platforms, this includes live performance which has been 
recorded for broadcast or made available to view online.

/This Country/ is intended to be a multi-layered imagining of Britain 
which acknowledges its past, the complexity of its changing social 
structures and subcultures and the diversity of its regions and nations 
– and the current renegotiation of the relationships between them.

                 We’re particularly interested in work which explores 
what Raymond Williams conceptualises as “structure of feeling” (1954) 
encapsulating “the lived experience of the quality of life at a 
particular time and place” (1977).

Here are a few indicative examples of texts the collection could include 
work on:

·/Billy Liar/ (1963) John Schlesinger and Keith Waterhouse’s comic 
addition to Britain’s social realist cinema.

  * /Father Ted/ (Channel 4 1995-1998) from an island parish somewhere
    off the coast of Ireland and watched everywhere on mainland UK
    (we’re not putting a hard border between Northern Ireland and the
    Republic).
  * /Four Weddings and a Funeral /(1994), landmark  British cinema set
    in the same England as the /Vicar of Dibley/ (BBC 1994 – 2007).
  * Genre-reinventing verité sitcoms /The Office/ (BBC 2001 2003) set in
    Slough and Caroline Aherne’s /Royle Family/ (1998 – 2000) from
    Manchester.
  * /On the Hour/ (BBC Radio 4 1991-2) Chris Morris and Steve Coogan’s
    innovative satirical news show.
  * /Creature Comforts/ / the /Wallace and Gromit/ series from Nick
    Park's  Aardman Animations
  * Michaela Coel’s  BAFTA-winning /Chewing Gum/ (E4 2015)
  * Instagrammer 'Chabuddy G'  (Asim Chaudhry) from BBC3's BAFTA winning
    mockumentary /People Just do Nothing/  about a pirate radio station
    in Hounslow.
  * Glasgow-based Janey Godley’s YouTube and podcast satires.
And everything from /Goodness Gracious Me/ to /Hebburn/ to /Absolutely 
/to /Desmond’s /to /Hitchhiker’s Guide/ to all the other things that 
wouldn't fit on our nice, neat list.

*Please send abstracts of 300 – 500 words, by 31^st July 2018* to:

(jmarshall /at/ qmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(jmarshall /at/ qmu.ac.uk)>  and / or

(mary.m.irwin /at/ googlemail.com) <mailto:(mary.m.irwin /at/ googlemail.com)>

and feel free to run ideas past us.


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