[ecrea] CFP: Cops on the Box

Call for papers: ‘Cops on the Box: Crime Drama on Contemporary UK 
Television Screens’.



University of Glamorgan, ATRiuM, Cardiff: Friday March 15th, 2013



 Keynote lecture: Professor Charlotte Brunsdon






UK crime drama deserves sustained critical attention from scholars, 
students and viewers alike, because it is one of the most important 
places in which ideas of justice, transgression, retribution and civic 
life are represented and contested. Crime drama offers audiences stories 
of right and wrong, moral authority asserted and resisted, professionals 
and criminals, and does so in ways that are often highly innovative and 
thought-provoking. This is a dynamic genre that is responsive not only 
to changing social debates on crime and policing but also to processes 
of hybridisation within the television industry itself.



Cops on the Box aims to gather together critical readings of 
contemporary British crime drama to examine the industrial, aesthetic 
and cultural evolution of the genre by reference to original scholarship 
and close readings of specific programmes, their production and 
reception. We hope the conference will provide a thorough and 
illuminating analysis of crime drama on contemporary UK screens from a 
range of theoretical perspectives and will thereby advance scholarship 
on this important TV genre.



We welcome twenty-minute papers that address the issues below, but we 
are receptive to submissions from all theoretical and empirical approaches:



·         Aesthetic and cultural evolution of British crime drama and 
the emergence of distinct forms e.g. forensic crime and detective fantasy

·         Interrelationship of crime drama and changing social politics 
and identities (including sexuality, race, gender, region and class)

·         Examinations of how the contemporary TV ecology impacts upon 
the development of British crime drama in industrial, aesthetic and 
cultural terms

·         Impact of imported European (including Scandinavian and 
French) and US shows on British crime drama

·         Representation of Britishness including how this is exported 
to the USA and elsewhere through crime drama

·         Adaptations in British crime drama (including  literary 
adaptations such as Poirot and Sherlock and international exports and 
adaptations such as Law and Order UK)

·          UK production of historical crime drama, that is crime and 
policing set in the past

·         Place in UK crime drama, including the importance of place, 
region and the rise of international TV tourism (e.g. Lewis/Inspector Morse)

·         Reception research on crime drama and its appeal to diverse 
audiences

A proposal for an edited collection is in development with University of 
Wales Press as part of its Contemporary Landmark Television series, 
edited by Prof. Steve Blandford, Prof. Stephen Lacey and Dr Ruth 
McElroy. Papers presented at the conference may be considered for 
inclusion in the book proposal.



Please send abstracts of no more than 400 words accompanied by a brief 
biography to Ben Lamb at (blamb /at/ glam.ac.uk) by January 11th 2013.





Dr Ruth McElroy

Ben Lamb.



Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries,

Atrium,

University of Glamorgan,

86-88 Adam Street,

Cardiff,

CF24 2FN



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