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[Commlist] CFP - Screening European Populisms on TV

Thu Sep 21 21:18:56 GMT 2023


Dom Holdaway is writing to let you know that the call for papers deadline for the special issue of the journal “Series” entitled “Screening European Populisms in the 21st Century: TV Series, Social Networks, and Political Platforms” has been extended by a month.

Full papers can now be sent by *October 15, 2023*.

Inquiries about the special issue should be addressed to (screeningeuropeanpopulisms /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(screeningeuropeanpopulisms /at/ gmail.com)>; if you have any questions, please contact the journal at (seriestv /at/ upv.es) <mailto:(seriestv /at/ upv.es)>.

An abridged version of the CFP follows, but you can read the full version here: https://series.unibo.it/announcement/view/565 <https://series.unibo.it/announcement/view/565>


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*Screening European Populisms in the 21st Century:
TV Series, Social Networks, and Political Platforms*

Editors: Valerio Coladonato, Elena Pilipets, Lidia Valera-Ordaz and Dom Holdaway

In the last couple of decades, the European political landscape has been shaped by the reinvigorated centrality of populisms, with new parties and platforms challenging the legitimacy of representational democratic systems. These political actors manage to hegemonize the understanding of diverse and complex “crises” through a pattern of recurring images and tropes that commonly emphasize ethno-nationalist and exclusionary societal views.

While a great deal of scholarly attention has been devoted to news content, the role of audiovisual fiction in this mobilization remains understudied. This is particularly true for television series, one of the largest and most relevant entertainment industries in the present. Here, explicit populist imaginaries are by no means lacking.

In this issue we aim to investigate broader connections between populist sentiments and TV series within contemporary media environments. In recent decades, social and political scientists have expanded their grasp of the cultural dimensions of populisms, while TV and media scholars have analyzed how series act as ecosystems, creating affective communities, (re)articulating audiences, and facilitating political conversations in “third” spaces, especially online. Indeed, both populist discourses and popular TV fiction are inseparable from social media networks: always-connected users share and spread content across platforms, through reactions, comments, and re-appropriations that  accumulate into an uninterrupted flow of engagement, erasing the boundaries between fact and fiction, source and adaptation.

Drawing on the premises proposed around the research project “Screening European Populisms”, we aim to foster dialogue by posing the questions that this context triggers: which role do TV series play in the construction, affirmation or defiance of populist politics and “structures of feelings”? How does the space and time enabled by complex narrative ecosystems, and their reception contexts, forge contested environments where political sentiments are made and unmade? Do the almost stereotypical divides between high/low brow and national/global TV products overlap with any specific populist-political rhetorics? And how do populist actors make use of fictional TV narratives to mobilize their own agendas?

For this special issue of /Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives/, we welcome articles exploring how fictional TV series interact with populist politics through platforms and networks – with the latter terms intended in the most fluid way, encapsulating the social, industrial, commercial dimensions of each.

More info: https://series.unibo.it/announcement/view/565 <https://series.unibo.it/announcement/view/565>

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