[ecrea] Call for Papers “I’ll See You Again in 25 Years: The Return of Twin Peaks and Generations of Cult TV”, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford

Call for Papers

“I’ll See You Again in 25 Years: The Return of Twin Peaks and 
Generations of Cult TV”

A two-day international conference.

School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK

21st- - 22nd May 2015

Confirmed keynote speakers:
•    Professor David Lavery (Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
•    Cristina Alvarez (Barcelona based independent video artist)
•    Dr Adrian Martin (Monash University, Australia)

Proposals are invited for a two-day international conference on the 
return of the popular cult television series Twin Peaks. The conference 
presents a timely reconsideration of the critically acclaimed programme 
with the announcement of its return to television after a twenty five 
year hiatus. In the meantime, cultures of television production, 
circulation and viewer practices have changed dramatically; the US cable 
sector in this period becoming the primary site for a model of 
auteur-driven, big-budget offbeat serial drama that Twin Peaks served as 
prototype for, with this trend underpinning Showtime’s recommissioning 
of this series of broadcast network origin. But alongside such 
transformation, the cultural prominence of this landmark programme has 
endured, as the considerable enthusiasm among critics and fans for the 
series’ return demonstrates.

This conference seeks to address the issue of Twin Peaks’ significant 
influence and lasting appeal from a number of multi-disciplinary 
perspectives.  We welcome proposals from scholars in the fields of 
cultural studies, television studies, film studies, visual arts, popular 
music studies, sound studies performance studies, digital and social 
media and related disciplines.

Proposals are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Twin Peaks and fandom
Twin Peaks and generations of cult television
Music and sound design in Twin Peaks
Set design and visual style
The use and subversion of the crime and melodrama genres
Feminism and gender relations
Seriality in Twin Peaks and contemporary television
Camp performance styles in Twin Peaks
David Lynch and televisual auteurism
Twin Peaks and social media
Generations of quality television
Intertextuality between television, film and literature
Comic and melodramatic performance styles
Film and television convergence
Twin Peaks and the contemporary television industry

Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2015

300 word abstracts plus a 100 word biography should be sent to the 
conference organisers:
Kirsty Fairclough (K.Fairclough /at/ salford.ac.uk)
Michael Goddard (M.Goddard /at/ salford.ac.uk)
Anthony Smith (A.N.Smith /at/ salford.ac.uk)


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