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[ecrea] CFP: Cops on the Box

Tue Jan 01 20:51:55 GMT 2013



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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