Call for Submissions *
Television Archives: Accessing TV History
Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies in Small Screen Fictions
Issue Editors: Lez Cooke and Robin Nelson
* While there has been an excellent response to
the call for submissions previously circulated
we would still welcome proposals for articles
focusing on â??small screen fictionsâ?? (rather
than more general institutional issues around
archiving and the problems of accessing TV
history) for this special issue of CST. We are
therefore re-circulating this Call for
Submissions and welcome further proposals on
television drama and other small screen fictions.
The current research picture would seem to have
an upside and a downside for television
researchers. On the upside, digital technologies
promise to make archive material readily
accessible to many more people than hitherto.
The aims of organisations such as the BBC and
BFI to digitise and disseminate their
substantial holdings would appear to afford
great opportunities to researchers. The use
historically made by television scholars of the
valuable resources of the BBC Written Archives
Centre and the BFIâ??s National Film and
Television Archive will be considerably extended
if digital plans are realised. However, there is
a downside in that the holdings of other
archives and libraries - e.g. regional archives,
the film and video libraries of the regional ITV
companies - are often patchy and/or
inaccessible. Furthermore, although valuable
research has been done on television history in
recent years, it has become increasingly
difficult to get such work into print as
publishers focus on books about contemporary
television at the expense of scholarly research into TV history.
In this context, Critical Studies in Television
is planning a special issue on television
archives and the opportunities and problems of
accessing and publishing TV history in order to
explore these issues. Contributions are welcome
on any aspect of television archives including,
but not limited to, the following:
· The role of national/regional
television archives in relation to small screen fictions
· Problems of access and availability
· Case studies relating to particular aspects of archival research
· The archives/collections of individual
writers, directors, producers, etc.
· Issues around the publication of research on TV history
Contributions are invited on the past, present
and future of television archives and issues of
accessing TV history, with particular reference
to small screen fictions. Articles will normally
be 4000-6000 words in length, but proposals for
shorter or longer articles will be considered.
Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) to Lez
Cooke
(<mailto:(L.J.Cooke /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(L.J.Cooke /at/ mmu.ac.uk))
or Robin Nelson
(<about:blank../AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/Temporary
Internet
Files/Low/Content.IE5/1VD7O0BS/(R.A.Nelson /at/ mmu.ac.uk)>(R.A.Nelson /at/ mmu.ac.uk))
by <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />30 October 2009.
Completed articles will have a submission
deadline of 31 March 2010, for publication in Autumn 2010.
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