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[ecrea] cfp - Locations in Television Drama Series

Wed Jan 20 18:08:02 GMT 2016





A special issue of SERIES - International journal of TV series narratives


"Locations in Television Drama Series"
http://series.unibo.it/announcement/view/215


Guest Editors: Anne Marit Waade and John Lynch

This special issue is dedicated to the analysis of the increasingly
significant role of location as a key element in television drama. In
recent years, the popularity of serial television has progressively been
tied to the expanded use of location as a central element in productions,
both as setting and as part of a wider audience engagement driven by
social media and marketing. This emerging field of research defined here
as Œlocation studies¹ represents an interdisciplinary approach to the
study of television series. It is pertinent at this point to bring
together examples of work from a range of scholars and to usefully mark
out potential lines of development within the subject. Location has so far
mainly been considered as a practical term in film and television
productions.

Locations, television places and production design have experienced very
little academic attention in contrast to, for example, narratives, visual
style, genre and acting. Location in a television drama production
involves persons and decisions both above the line (creative and financial
decision makers) and below the line (technical and practical personal), as
well as institutional and economic conditions outside the production team,
for example funding, production facilities, public service commitments,
target groups (Blandford and McElroy, 2011). Les Roberts (2012) introduces
the idea of cinematic geography as an interdisciplinary approach that
reflects upon the relation between the film or television drama series and
the actual city, the geographical place, and demonstrates the complex
interplay between respectively economic, artistic and practical interests
that are at stake when it comes to audio-visual productions. Roberts¹ work
is a contribution to a more overall and increasing interest in the
relation between media and geography (Couldry and McCarthy 2004;
Falkheimer & Jansson, 2006; Waade, 2013). More recently, there are works
on, for instance, The Wire and the city as a character (Gjelsvik, 2010),
BBC¹s Wallander and the glocal (McCabe 2015) and landscapes in Nordic Noir
(Creeber 2014). Location studies reflects upon the relationship between
the places and the television drama series, considering aspects such as
the aesthetic and narrative aspects of the places in the series, how media
represents and brands places (city, nations, regions), how the site of
production and the physical conditions influence the series, and how media
production is seen as valuable creative industry and regional development
to attract investors, inhabits and visitors. As part of the glocalisation
process, the specific places become commodities with significant values,
both cultural and economic in a globalised world. The recent interest for
places in the creative industry in general (Comunian et al. 2010) and in
television drama in particular illustrates this very well.

The aim of this issue is to highlight research that engages with the
multi-discipline and multi-method approach to location studies in
television series. Papers may be theoretical and/or empirical in nature
and all submissions will be considered; particular areas of interest
include:

1. The development of location from practical role in production to
significant social value tied to cultural issues of place and meaning
2. Location studies and methodologies of empirical research
3. Theorising the relationship between location and the dramaturgical
function
4. The relation between physical, mediated and imagined places
5. Televisual places: Reflecting on the relation between production
design, exterior and interior, location and landscapes, respectively
6. The role of regional commissioning and production agencies and emerging
collaborative practices
7. Location as commodity and production value in television series
8. The politics of location as signifiers of changing landscapes in a
globalised media culture
9. Location as site of screen tourism and fan-based engagements

Time line
December 15th, 2015: Call for abstracts opens
March 1st 2016: Deadline abstracts
April 1st, 2016: Feedback to the authors
Sept. 1st: Deadline for submitting the article
December 1st: Review process, deadline for the reviewers
February 1st: Deadline for the final version of the article
April 1st: deadline for the journals to do the editorial and practical
work

Anne Marit Waade is Associate Professor, School of Culture and
Communication, at Aarhus University, Denmark. E-mail: (amwaade /at/ dac.au.dk)
John Lynch is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication at Karlstad
University, Sweden. E-mail: (john.lynch /at/ kau.se)


SERIES¹ website: http://series.unibo.it E-mail: (seriesjournal.org /at/ gmail.com)



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