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The SCMSTV* Non-U.S TV Studies Action Committee, chaired by steering committee members Tim Havens and Sharon Shahaf, is organizing an international TV panel for the SCMS** 2007 Chicago conference (March 8-11). If interested, please send proposals BY AUGUST 15 to Sharon at sharonsha@mail.utexas.edu
CFP - Panel on "Western TV Formats and Their International, Glocalized Versions”
American and European Television formats (Soaps, Sitcoms, games and talk-shows, Reality TV etc,) have been widely adapted, copied, bought and franchised by television broadcasters across the globe, since the very beginning of television. This panel focuses on the cultural and social significance of the global flow of television formats. Papers exploring the theoretical implications of international case studies for the larger field of TV studies are especially encouraged.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
Historical and contemporary instances where American or European Television formats have been adapted, copied or franchised by local TV stations or production companies
Histories/ethnographies of production, textual analysis and/or study of audience reception of such productions
Discussion of the cultural and social significance of these adaptations
National controversies caused by clashes between local values and the demands and contents dictated by imported TV formats
Hybridity, Ambivalence, and Glocalization in the adaptation of foreign TV formats
Nationalism, Post-Nationalism and Trans-Nationalism in relation to the global flow of TV formats
Post-colonialism and the global flow of TV formats
Questions regarding the panel, as well as Proposals, following SCMS's Panel paper format, should be sent *BY AUGUST 15* to: Sharon at sharonsha@mail.utexas.edu
SCMS panel paper’s submission guidelines can be downloaded at:
http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_facileforms&Itemid=87
The committee will notify all applicants whether submissions have been accepted or not by August 24th, 2006. This should allow enough time for submission of rejected papers through the SCMS open call.
Gratefully yours
Tim and Sharon
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**SCMS =Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
SCMS website: http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php
**SCMSTV = Television Studies Interest group in SCMS
SCMSTV website: http://mailman.cmstudies.org/SCSTV/
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