[ecrea] CALL FOR PAPERS: GENDER AND TELEVISION COMEDY SYMPOSIUM

Day Symposium:

Acting Up: Gender and Television Comedy
Saturday 14th January 2012
Northumbria University

Call for papers
Deadline: 1st September 2011

Television comedy calls upon a wide range of cultural references and forms, including the constantly mutating genres of television itself (such as sitcom and reality tv), cinematic performances (Chaplin to Carey) and longstanding theatrical traditions (such as clowning and commedia dell’arte).  In the last forty years academic examination of the many facets of television and comedy has become an established field, yet to date there is little literature available that closely examines the performance of gendered identities in comedy television.  The work of Kathleen Rowe and Frances Gray in the early 1990s remains key in debates about women and television comedy, but this day symposium seeks to extend the discussions established in their work, to examine the performance of a wide range of gender and sexual identities.  This event will examine how gender is performed, subverted, reiterated and transformed through television comedy.
Papers are invited on issues such as:
Feminism and femininity
The performance of heteromasculinity
Camp and the politics of gender
Age and gender
Gay/Lesbian/Queer characters and actors
Gender and class identity
Race, ethnicity and gender

Papers delivered at the conference may be considered for publication in a dedicated issue of the new Journal of Popular Television.
Please send 300 word proposals with a 50 word biographical note to (rosemary.white /at/ northumbria.ac.uk) and (james.leggott /at/ northumbria.ac.uk)




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