[Commlist] CFP: CRAS Special Issue on "New Television"

I am soliciting essay contributions for a special issue of /The Canadian 
Review of American Studies/ (/CRAS/) on the topic of "new television." 
Please see below.

There is a gathering consensus that television began to undergo a marked 
transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Two decades into the 
twenty-first century, an ever-increasing number of cable and streaming 
series are conjuring the emergence of a world liquidated of normative 
authority, saturated with media-technological developments, and 
struggling to find its bearings in the fray. In /New Television: The 
Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre/, Martin Shuster refers to this 
still-unfolding genre as “new television” on account of both its 
relatively new narrative coordinates and its efforts to think through 
the bewildering contours of a rapidly changing world.

With all of this in mind, we are currently putting together a special 
issue of /The Canadian Review of American Studies/ on the topic of “new 
television.” We are seeking essay-length explorations of this 
predominantly American genre’s uptake of recent political, 
technological, and cultural shifts as well as currents in cinematic and 
literary fiction. We are especially interested in analyses of one or 
several of the following series: /The Sopranos/, /The Wire/, /Six Feet 
Under/, /Deadwood/, /Breaking Bad/, /Better Call Saul/, /Mad Men/, /True 
Detective/, /House of Cards/, /Weeds/, /Veep/, /Transparent/, and/High 
Maintenance/.

Please send a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio, c/o Daniel Adleman, 
to (newtelevisioncfp /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(newtelevisioncfp /at/ gmail.com)> by 
August 1, 2019.



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