[ecrea] Call for Papers: Nordicom Review Special Issue

*CALL FOR PAPERS: Nordicom Review Special Issue (open access)***

*Title:*‘Dark Screens: The Geopolitics of Nordic Television Drama’
*Guest Editors:* Robert A. Saunders (State University of New York); Pei 
Sze Chow (Aarhus University); and Anne Marit Waade (Aarhus University)
*Journal:*/Nordicom Review/

Nordic Europe’s dramatic television series – from /Borgen/to /The Bridge 
/to /Occupied/- currently serve as a model for the rest of the world. 
Shaped by public service broadcasting traditions which are rooted in 
providing social critique, these series provide a rich reservoir of 
representation of how Norden sees itself. While there is growing 
interest in Nordic noir, not only within film and television studies, 
but also across Scandinavian studies, International Relations, and 
geography, collaborations across these disciplines have been relatively 
absent. We view this lacuna as an invitation to investigate and 
interrogate the implicit and explicit geopolitical implications of the 
series, both within and beyond the region.

In the wake of the highly productive workshop “Nordic Noir, Geopolitics 
& the North,” hosted by the Media Studies Department within the School 
of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University on 4-5 October 
2018,/ Nordicom Review/invites proposals for a special issue entitled 
“Dark Screens: The Geopolitics of Nordic Television Drama.”

Building on Saunders’ (2017) typology of geopolitical television, this 
special issue invites contributions from scholars from multiple 
disciplines (media studies, screen studies, literature, cross-cultural 
communication, geography, IR, Scandinavian studies, etc.) to examine how 
Norden’s television series build lifeworlds (Gavins & Lahey, 
2016; Tischleder, 2017; Wolf, 2012), and the role that these visually- 
and textually-produced imaginaries play in contemporary politics, 
society, and culture. While television series are the primary medium of 
analysis, we will also consider contributions that use motion pictures 
as a comparative medium and/or essays that examine serial films such as 
/Varg Veumand/the /Department Q/series.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  * Critiques of Norden through crime drama (/Forbrydelsen, Beck, Arne
    Dahl, Lillyhammer, Case/, etc.)
  * Governance, foreign relations and military issues (/Borgen, I am the
    Ambassador, Nobel/, etc.)
  * Ecological concerns, pandemics, disease, human-nature interactions
    (/Jordskott, The Rain, Valkyrien/, etc.)
  * Corporate malfeasance and the neoliberal challenge (/Follow the
    Money, Mammon, Deadwind/, etc.)
  * Local-global connections and their complications (/Trapped,
    Acquitted, Dicte/, etc.)
  * Televisual interventions in national identity (/1864, Occupied/, etc.)
  * Border zones and frontier spaces (/Bron|Broen,Bordertown/, etc.)
  * Gender and sexuality in the Nordic context (/Borderliner, Fallet/, 
etc.)
  * Regional identities within Norden (e.g. /The Look of a
    Killer, Monster/, etc.)
  * Terrorism and political violence (/The Fourth Man, Below the
    Surface/, etc.)
  * International cooperation in law enforcement (/The Team, 100 Code/,
    etc.)
  * Issues associated with the Arctic and climate change (e.g. /Midnight
    Sun, Fortitude/, etc.)
  * Racial, ethnic and religious identity issues (/Blue Eyes, Ride Upon
    the Storm/, etc.)
  * The geopolitics of international adaptations (e.g. /Wallander, The
    Killingand The Bridge/The Tunnel/Most/Pagan Peak/)
  * The influence of Nordic noir on British, French, Dutch and other
    ‘national’ TV cultures (/Marcella, Hinterland, Black Spot/, etc.)
  * Changing production cultures among Scandinavia broadcasters and the
    impact on representation (especially via Netflix)

Please send a 500-word proposal to Robert Saunders 
(robert.saunders@farmingdale <mailto:robert.saunders@farmingdale>), Pei 
Sze Chow ((pschow /at/ cc.au.dk) <mailto:(pschow /at/ cc.au.dk)>) and Anne Marit Waade 
((amwaade /at/ cc.au.dk) <mailto:(amwaade /at/ cc.au.dk)>) by 15 January 2019 along 
with a short CV. Contributors will be notified by 15 February, and their 
completed articles will be due on 15 April, 2019.

*About Nordicom Review*
Nordicom Review is an international, open access peer-reviewed journal 
published by Nordicom (Nordic Information Centre for Media and 
Communication Research) at the University of Gothenburg. The publication 
of Nordicom Review is supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

View this CFP on Nordicom’s website: 
http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/news/call-papers-nordicom-review-special-issue-1

---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------