[Mediaculturehipsters] Fwd: CFP: TV Fiction Exchange (UK) (5/1/06; 9/5/06-9/8/06)

[jennifer buscher]

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> From: cstconference at criticalstudiesintelevision.com
> Date: February 3, 2006 10:21:07 AM PST
> To: cfp at english.upenn.edu
> Subject: CFP: TV Fiction Exchange (UK) (5/1/06; 9/5/06-9/8/06)
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> TV Fiction Exchange: Local/Regional/National/Global.
> An International Conference.
>
> Contributors include: 	
> Professor Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney
> David Bianculli, NY Daily News television critic and author of
> Teletiteracy
> Dr David Lavery, Middle-State Tennessee University
> Mark Lawson, Guardian television critic and writer
>
> Venue: 		Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU Cheshire).
> Dates: 		Tuesday 5 - Friday 8 September 2006.
>
> TV Fiction Exchange: Local/Regional/National/Global aims to address
> the impact of shifts in the circulation of fictions for the small
> screen. The rapid developments in digital and satellite technologies
> have opened up a global market for television in a horizontally-
> integrated, multi-media environment with major impact upon product-
> making and the cultures of reception. The conference aims to address
> a core tension between the increasing tendency of multi-media
> conglomerates to think globally at the macro-economic level and the
> known preference for locally-inflected product at the local
> reception level. It will look at how changes are affecting national
> and regional television production and small screen fiction product
> and how they are impacting in turn upon local, regional national –
> or possibly trans-national – identities.
>
> Coinciding with the official launch of the new international
> journal, Critical Studies in Television
> (www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com), this conference, spanning
> four days, aims to bring together academics, critics, students and
> industry practitioners from different countries, regions and
> language communities to discuss the seismic shifts in the industry
> and culture of television.
>
> The conference organisers are seeking papers on such topics as:
> ·	Global TV drama: aesthetics and influence.
> ·	Viewing and understanding cultural identities – global
> and/or local?
> ·	Trans-national television fictions (e.g. Spanish-language
> tele-novela).
> ·	Local/regional/global TV production (esp. TV drama cultures;
> TV product franchises; remakes of shows in different national TV
> contexts).
> ·	Technological developments: television fictions and the
> Internet and multi-media communications futures.
> ·	Television and the Diaspora (viewing cultures; national and
> cultural identities).
> ·	The place of television fictions in global media network
> strategies.
>
> We invite contributors to submit electronically an abstract of
> approx. 500words, along with a short biography including postal
> address, by Monday 1 May 2006 to the following: (Please send
> enquiries to this address).
>
> cstconference at criticalstudiesintelevision.com
>
> Conference organisers:
> Professor Robin Nelson, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
> Dr Janet McCabe, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
> Professor Stephen Lacey, University of Glamorgan, UK.
> Kim Akass, London Metropolitan University, UK.
>
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