[Commlist] CFP Gender and TV in Iberia and Latin America

*Call for Papers*

*/Gender and TV in Iberia and Latin America/*

*Anja Louis (Sheffield Hallam) and Abigail Loxham (Liverpool), UK*

We invite original papers to be published as part of an edited 
collection. Our aim is to forge interdisciplinary links between those 
working in Television and Media Studies, Gender Studies, Iberian and 
Latin American Studies. We consider television as a key cultural 
mediator in the understanding of gender and a significant interlocutor 
in social change. If we consider TV one of the most influential agents 
of value construction, then TV shows can be considered a powerful tool 
to guide viewers through the moral climate of their time, attesting to a 
collective process of working through social issues.

Television and media research has been theorised in terms of the 
technological advances that changing modes of distribution bring, its 
textual, narrative and aesthetic developments, and its role as a 
mediator of cultural identity. Scholarship has produced prolific studies 
of US and UK television to exemplify the ways in which constructions of 
gender are mediated through different televisual formats and genres. We 
will refocus this research and consider the important work being done on 
Iberian and Latin American TV to analyse the ways in which mediations of 
gender are made visible, produced and understood through popular 
television. As a response to a global political landscape, in which 
power and gender have been brought into sharp focus, it will examine the 
way in which structures of power play out in these ‘other’ television 
cultures. We will explore cultural specificities and provide an 
important interdisciplinary intervention.

**

*Themes and research questions may include but should not be limited to:*

·How is gender made visible on television?

·How are gendered subjectivities negotiated in different TV genres? How 
are they framed by the format of the TV genre?

·To what extent is character engagement dependent on genre, 
hybridisation and/or actors?

·How do critics deal with gender on TV? What other extra-textual 
discourses contribute to the production of meanings surrounding gender 
on television?

·To what extent is the continued application of Anglophone theory in a 
non-Anglophone context useful?

·Can the analysis of the geo-specific productions contribute to the 
theorisation of the media representation of gender?

·How does the reception of international productions compare to that of 
indigenous television?

·How has the transmedial configuration of television altered the ways in 
which configurations of gender and nationality are understood?

·How have streaming platforms changed the ways in which gender is 
mediated transnationally?

The above list is not exhaustive, we are happy to consider any piece 
which works on Gender and TV in Iberia and Latin America – please 
contact us with any questions! We welcome submissions from PhD students, 
early career researchers and established academics.

Abstracts and papers should be submitted to the editors by email 
((a.louis /at/ shu.ac.uk) <mailto:(a.louis /at/ shu.ac.uk)>; 
(Abigail.Loxham /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(Abigail.Loxham /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>)

**

*Deadline schedule: *

Abstracts: 1 February 2022 (word limit 350 words). Notification of 
acceptance: 1 March 2022

Submission of full chapters: 1 July 2022 (word limit 8000 words)

Publication date: To be confirmed, we are currently in talks with 
various publishers.


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