[ecrea] CFP: Finale: Considering the Ends of Television Shows

> Edited by David Lavery
>
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> At least since the end of M*A*S*H (1972), the 
> final episodes of television series have often 
> become ?cultural spectacles? (as Joanne Moreale 
> deems them in an important essay on the Seinfeld 
> finale). Recently, the finales of Life on Mars, 
> The Sopranos, and Battlestar Galactica proved 
> controversial, engendering water cooler debates 
> around the world. The final episode of LOST in 
> May 2010 may likely prove the most-buzzed in the history of the medium.
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> TV finales fascinate us because they bring 
> ??verses? to an end?in the case of long-running 
> shows, very complicated ?verses, exposing in the 
> process our cultural obsessions, our ?reading? 
> practices, our imagined identities, our fascination with television.
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>
>
> I am developing a collection of essays on TV 
> finales and I hope you will want to contribute.
>
>
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> At the project?s 
> website--<http://davidlavery.net/Finale/>http://davidlavery.net/Finale/--you 
> will find a comprehensive (but by no means 
> all-inconclusive) list of possible British and 
> American television series contributors to 
> Finale might want to write about. I remain open to other suggestions.
>
>
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> Send me an e-mail at 
> <mailto:(david.lavery /at/ gmail.com)>(david.lavery /at/ gmail.com) 
> and propose (briefly, succinctly) the essay you 
> might contribute to the book. Tell me a bit 
> about yourself as well (if we do not already know each other).
>
>
>
> Dr. David Lavery is Professor of English at 
> Middle Tennessee State University (1993- ). The 
> author of over one hundred published essays 
> (several on poetry and poetics), chapters, and 
> reviews, he is author / co-author / editor / 
> co-editor of eighteen books, including Joss: A 
> Creative Portrait of the Maker of the 
> Whedonverses and The Essential Cult Television 
> Reader. The organizer of international 
> conferences on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The 
> Sopranos, and Lost, a founding co-editor of the 
> journals Slayage: The Online International 
> Journal of Buffy Studies and Critical Studies in 
> Television, he has lectured around the world on 
> the subject of television (Australia, Turkey, 
> the UK, Portugal, New Zealand, Ireland, Germany) 
> and has been a guest/source for the BBC, NPR, 
> the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The New 
> York Times, A Folha de Sao Paulo, The Toronto 
> Star. From 2006-2008, he taught at Brunel University in London.
>
> Star Trek: The Next Generation
>
> Stargate SG-1
>
> Supernatural
>
> Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
>
> thirty something
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> This Life
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> Till Death Us Do Part
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> Twin Peaks
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> Veronica Mars
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> West Wing
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> The Wire
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> The Wonder Years
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> Wonderfalls
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> Xena: Warrior Princess
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> The X-Files
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister>Yes Minister
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Cars>Z-Cars

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