[ecrea] Cfp for book on popular television and (post)socialism

>  Call for Proposals
>
> Entertaining a New Europe: Popular Television in 
> Socialist and Postsocialist Eastern Europe, 
> edited by Timothy Havens (University of Iowa), 
> Aniko Imre (University of Southern California), 
> and Katalin Lustyik (Ithaca College)
>
> ��We welcome contributions for a proposed 
> edited volume, Entertaining a New Europe: 
> Popular Television in Socialist and 
> Postsocialist Eastern Europe. Please send a 
> brief abstract (200-300 words) and biographical 
> statement (50-100 words) to 
> (timothy-havens /at/ uiowa.edu) and/or (imre /at/ usc.edu) by December 1, 2009.
> Papers will be due in the fall of 2010.��
>
> This collection of essays responds to the recent 
> surge of interest in popular television in 
> Eastern Europe, including both contemporary and 
> historical studies. This increased attention 
> follows the â??New Europeâ??sâ?? transition from 
> state-controlled, relatively isolated national 
> media systems to an increasingly integrated 
> European media sphere thoroughly permeated by 
> processes of globalization and media 
> convergence. Televisionâ??s transformation has 
> been especially spectacular, evolving from a 
> state-controlled broadcast system delivering 
> national, regional, and heavily filtered Western 
> programming to an increasingly deregulated, 
> multi-platform, transnational system delivering 
> predominantly American and Western European 
> entertainment programming. Consequently, the 
> nations of Eastern Europe provide opportunities 
> to examine the complex interactions among 
> economic and funding systems, regulatory 
> policies, globalization, imperialism, popular 
> culture, and cultural identity. We intend this 
> collection to be the first serious effort to 
> establish critical television studies in relation to Eastern Europe.��
>
> Essays may address any aspect of popular 
> television in Eastern Europe, including the 
> following: the histories of socialist and 
> postsocialist television; national and regional 
> program flows during socialism and today; the 
> socialist satellite system; television program 
> trade; censorship; East-West connections during 
> socialism and today; cross-border television, 
> convergence and globalization; Europeanization, 
> television and national identity; gender and 
> television in Eastern Europe; quality TV; 
> educational television; childrenâ??s television; 
> popular television genres (e.g. soap operas, 
> serial dramas) and television formats (e.g. 
> reality shows, game shows); fandom and stardom; 
> nostalgia; advertising; television and new 
> media; television and film; socialism, consumerism and consumption.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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