[ecrea] CFP Moments in Television

Call for chapter proposals
Moments in Television: Complexity/Simplicity ; Epic/Everyday ; 
Sound/Image ; Substance/Style
Deadline for chapter proposals 19th November 2018

Part of The Television Series, Manchester University Press
Series editors: Jonathan Bignell, Sarah Cardwell, Steven Peacock

These new volumes in MUP’s ‘The Television Series’ will take the form of 
edited collections of essays celebrating ‘Moments in Television’. Each 
volume will be organised around a provocative binary theme which we hope 
will inspire focused, impassioned contributions focusing on a wide range 
of television programmes. It is expected that each volume will contain 
nine essays of 8,000 words each.                 The first proposed 
volumes are:
                Moments in Television:  Complexity/Simplicity
                Moments in Television:  Epic/Everyday
                Moments in Television:  Sound/Image
                Moments in Television:  Substance/Style
                We are seeking proposals for chapters. Each chapter 
should engage closely with one television programme in a way that 
captures the work’s particular achievements and persuades the reader of 
its significance in the TV landscape. Proposals should make clear within 
which volume (binary) the chapter would be included.
Each chapter should undertake its exploration of its chosen programme 
via a reflection upon the relevant binary: ‘Complexity/Simplicity’, 
‘Epic/Everyday’, ‘Sound/Image’ or ‘Substance/Style’. It is entirely up 
to the author to determine how best, and how reflexively, to utilise and 
reflect upon the ideas of complexity and simplicity/the epic and the 
everyday/sound and image/substance and style to enable his/her 
exploration of the programme, and to explore critically upon its 
achievements.
We envisage that these essays will encapsulate the particular emphases 
of The Television Series, taking television seriously on artistic and 
cultural terms. Focusing on TV fictions, dramatic or comedic, each book 
will demonstrate the series’ commitment to close encounters with TV: 
close stylistic analysis, evaluative criticism and the appraisal of TV 
creators’ creative achievements. In pursuit of this, we recommend that 
each essay include at least 2,000 words engaging with a specific moment 
which the author feels exemplifies the particular achievements of the 
programme, attending to both visual and sonic qualities; the remainder 
of the writing would address the programme more broadly, as the author 
sees fit, in terms of complexity and simplicity/the epic and the 
everyday/sound and image/substance and style, and gesturing towards the 
work’s significance in terms of TV’s art history.
We intend that the variety of programmes explored will be eclectic and 
wide-ranging. We seek chapters that focus on examples from recent or 
long-running, established programmes; from a range of countries; and 
from varied genres, traditions and styles. Whilst we foresee that most 
examples will be easily-accessible works, ones that are often discussed 
and studied, there will be room for exceptional examples which will 
introduce the reader to previously neglected televisual gems.
Please send proposals or queries to Sarah Cardwell, in the first 
instance: (s.cardwell /at/ kent.ac.uk)


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