[Commlist] CFP - Screening European Populisms on TV

Dom Holdaway is writing to let you know that the call for papers 
deadline for the special issue of the journal “Series” entitled 
“Screening European Populisms in the 21st Century: TV Series, Social 
Networks, and Political Platforms” has been extended by a month.

Full papers can now be sent by *October 15, 2023*.

Inquiries about the special issue should be addressed to 
(screeningeuropeanpopulisms /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(screeningeuropeanpopulisms /at/ gmail.com)>; if you have any 
questions, please contact the journal at (seriestv /at/ upv.es) 
<mailto:(seriestv /at/ upv.es)>.

An abridged version of the CFP follows, but you can read the full 
version here: https://series.unibo.it/announcement/view/565 
<https://series.unibo.it/announcement/view/565>


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*Screening European Populisms in the 21st Century:
TV Series, Social Networks, and Political Platforms*

Editors: Valerio Coladonato, Elena Pilipets, Lidia Valera-Ordaz and Dom 
Holdaway

In the last couple of decades, the European political landscape has been 
shaped by the reinvigorated centrality of populisms, with new parties 
and platforms challenging the legitimacy of representational democratic 
systems. These political actors manage to hegemonize the understanding 
of diverse and complex “crises” through a pattern of recurring images 
and tropes that commonly emphasize ethno-nationalist and exclusionary 
societal views.

While a great deal of scholarly attention has been devoted to news 
content, the role of audiovisual fiction in this mobilization remains 
understudied. This is particularly true for television series, one of 
the largest and most relevant entertainment industries in the present. 
Here, explicit populist imaginaries are by no means lacking.

In this issue we aim to investigate broader connections between populist 
sentiments and TV series within contemporary media environments. In 
recent decades, social and political scientists have expanded their 
grasp of the cultural dimensions of populisms, while TV and media 
scholars have analyzed how series act as ecosystems, creating affective 
communities, (re)articulating audiences, and facilitating political 
conversations in “third” spaces, especially online. Indeed, both 
populist discourses and popular TV fiction are inseparable from social 
media networks: always-connected users share and spread content across 
platforms, through reactions, comments, and re-appropriations that  
accumulate into an uninterrupted flow of engagement, erasing the 
boundaries between fact and fiction, source and adaptation.

Drawing on the premises proposed around the research project “Screening 
European Populisms”, we aim to foster dialogue by posing the questions 
that this context triggers: which role do TV series play in the 
construction, affirmation or defiance of populist politics and 
“structures of feelings”? How does the space and time enabled by complex 
narrative ecosystems, and their reception contexts, forge contested 
environments where political sentiments are made and unmade? Do the 
almost stereotypical divides between high/low brow and national/global 
TV products overlap with any specific populist-political rhetorics? And 
how do populist actors make use of fictional TV narratives to mobilize 
their own agendas?

For this special issue of /Series: International Journal of TV Serial 
Narratives/, we welcome articles exploring how fictional TV series 
interact with populist politics through platforms and networks – with 
the latter terms intended in the most fluid way, encapsulating the 
social, industrial, commercial dimensions of each.

More info: https://series.unibo.it/announcement/view/565 
<https://series.unibo.it/announcement/view/565>

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