[ecrea] Trans TV conference CFP

*TRANS TV: Call For Papers*

  * *Transformations of Television Industries*
  * *Transformations of Television Consumption Practices *
  * *Transformations of Televisual Aesthetics, Narratives and Identities*
  * *21^st Century Transnational and Transmedia Television Practices*

*Wednesday the 13^th of September to Friday the 15^th of September, 
2017, University of Westminster, 309 Regent St, London.*

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*Organised in Collaboration with the CREAM and CAMRI research centres 
and the Faculty of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster.*

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*Organising Committee: *Dr Michael Goddard, Dr Christopher Hogg, Jane 
Thorburn, Paul Dwyer, Ged Maguire, Robert Benfield, Simon Passmore.

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*Confirmed Academic Keynotes:*

Professor Amanda Lotz (University of Michigan)

Professor Matt Hills (University of Huddersfield)

Professor Jaap Kooijman (University of Amsterdam)

The conference will also feature key television industry guests TBC.


This conference proposes an examination of contemporary television under 
the impact of new platforms for production, dissemination and 
consumption such as Netflix and Amazon, coming after earlier 
technological and cultural dislocations of television such as cable, 
satellite, and home recording practices. These shifts have already 
displaced television from a stable technological apparatus, conventional 
television institutions and networks and schedule-based viewing. The 
latest turn of this ongoing series of transformations, poses questions 
of whether this is leading to a wider transformation of the very 
definition of the medium itself, as well as facilitating new forms of 
transmediality and transnationality in television production and 
consumption practices.


Are series produced by, disseminated on and/or consumed via these new 
platforms still television and if so in what senses? Is television now 
only understood in terms of audiovisual digital content with a serial 
form, and if so what distinguishes it from other digital content such as 
web series that may also be serial and audiovisual? Finally, is it 
useful to refer in this context to ‘post-television’ in line with the 
recently proposed term of ‘post-cinema’ in order to understand the 
radical technological and cultural transformations of what is 
nonetheless still widely recognised and understood in terms of 
televisual form?


Drawing attention especially to the appearance of more Trans as well as 
LGBTQ figures within such recent US series as /Orange is the New Black, 
Transparent, Sense8/ and others, this conference will propose the idea 
that television itself is going through its own ‘trans’ period, an 
unpredictable metamorphosis of its identity, arguably allowing for 
richer post-network complexity in televisual narratives, 
characterization, style and aesthetics. At the same time, it is 
important to look closely at how these aesthetic shifts are related to 
industrial practices like commissioning, international co-productions 
and modes of consumption in an era in which television content may be 
primarily designed to be consumed via these new platforms, even if 
produced by a more conventional television organisation. In order to 
address these shifts in both industrial practices and television 
aesthetics, the conference will consist of both theoretical/analytic and 
industry/production studies streams, as well as roundtables bringing 
these streams together.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  * Transformations of television production practices in the
    Netflix/Amazon//era
  * Transformations of television consumption practices encompassing but
    not limited to binge viewing
  * New forms of transnational collaboration and television co-production
  * New modes of narrative complexity in comedy and drama series
  * Trans, LGBTQI, queer and other liminal figures in contemporary
    televisual narratives
  * Contemporary transformations of television aesthetics
  * New forms of commissioning and marketing television series
  * Transmedia approaches to contemporary television and digital narratives
  * Queer critical approaches to contemporary television series (/Orange
    is the New Black, Sense8, Transparent, Orphan Black /and others)
  * Transformations of television drama and comedy genres and subgenres
  * Transformations of television authorship
  * Transformations of gender and ethnicity in television production and
    consumption practices
  * Transformations of gender and ethnic representations in contemporary
    television series
  * Transformations of online and offline television criticism
  * Transformations of television studies in theory and pedagogy
  * Television and ‘post-television’ in digital forms such as music
    video and ‘user generated television’, as well as on platforms from
    YouTube to Netflix
  * Future directions and understandings of television in a digital
    transmedia context

We envisage several publication outputs from the conference as well as 
other forms of impact.


Please submit a 250-word abstract for a 20 minute presentation and a 
maximum 100 word bionote to: *(m.goddard /at/ westminster.ac.uk)* 
<mailto:(m.goddard /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>*and **(c.hogg /at/ westminster.ac.uk)* 
<mailto:(c.hogg /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>*by the 8^th of May, 2017.*

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*Registration will be 100£ for academics with permanent positions and 
50£ for students and underemployed participants*

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*Acceptance of proposed papers will be confirmed by the 29^th of May, 2017*


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