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 Apologies for Cross-posting. This is just a reminder as the deadline (28th February) is fast approaching.


Global TV Horror – edited collection cfp

ed. Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett

When Stacey Abbott and Lorna Jowett hatched the idea for a book on TV Horror in the early 2000s, they had only a sense that by the time the book was published in 2012 there would be many more horror TV series to watch, write about and discuss. In this follow up to TV Horror, the first full-length examination of horror on television, they take aim at global TV horror.

Television audiences and horror fans across the world may be most familiar with the latest big brands in TV horror such as The Walking Dead (US, 2010-), yet horror has always had a truly international reach. From anthology series to children’s drama, Belphegor [Phantom of the Louvre] (France, 1965), Historias para no dormir [Stories to Keep You Awake] (Spain, 1966–82), Children of the Stones (UK, 1977), Riget [The Kingdom] (Denmark, 1994-1997) and Goosebumps (Canada, 1995-98) terrified viewers, imprinted themselves on memories, and influenced the contemporary boom in horror on TV. With the expansion of TV channels, view on demand and streaming services, more and more content is needed, and niche productions with distinctive characteristics are more welcome than ever. The last five years have given us the moody and atmospheric Les Revenants [The Returned] (France, 2012-), adaptations of novel series like Bitten (Canada, 2014-16), contemporary reimaginings of queer horror classics like web series Carmilla (Canada, 2014), cross-genre Scandi series Fortitude (UK, 2015-) and Jordskott (Sweden, 2015-), films remade as TV, such as Wolf Creek (Australia, 2016-), original Amazon series like Tokyo Vampire Hotel (Japan, 2017-), one-off miniseries such as Au-delà des Murs [Beyond The Walls] (France/ Belgium, 2016), and American Netflix animated series Castlevania (US, 2017-) based on the Japanese video games. Horror on television shows no signs of abating, and more and more global productions are reaching audiences as national boundaries are eroded by digital technologies.

We seek proposals that address the full range and scope of ‘horror’ and ‘television’ in a global context, historical and contemporary. Chapters may engage with, though are not restricted to, the areas below.

·        Global production and co-production, commissioning
·        Distribution and global circulation via import/ export or illegal downloading
·        Platforms and delivery: VoD, streaming, inter/national branding
·        Translation, subbing, and dubbing
·        Adaptations and remakes
·        Forms and formats: serial drama, webisodes, webseries, miniseries, TV movies, long and short forms, non-fiction horror TV
·        Aesthetics: visual and aural style, FX and make up; music and soundscapes
·        Crossing over: international stars and creators
·        Consumption and reception: global audiences and fandoms
·        Cultural and national horrors: reimagining horror tropes in domestic and international markets
·        Inter/national representations and identities
·        Horror v. terror
·        Genre splicing and global TV trends
·        Children’s international horror television
·        Global transmedia horror: paratexts, overflow, narrative extensions

Proposals of 300 words, along with a short biography, should be submitted to both editors ([log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]) by 28 February 2018.



Dr. Stacey Abbott
Reader in Film and Television Studies
Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy
Roehampton University | London | SW15 5SL
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Author of Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (Edinburgh University Press 2016)
Find out more about Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-undead-apocalypse.html

For further information on the book, please see this interview with Stacey Abbott:
https://rhystranter.com/2016/10/03/stacey-abbott-undead-apocalypse-interview-vampires-zombies-21st-century/#more-19457
http://www.concordia.ca/cunews/offices/vpaer/aar/2016/10/19/the-zombies-just-keep-coming.html
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/Courses/Media-Culture-and-Language/News/New-book-by-vampire-expert-promises-to-be-a-Halloween-treat/




Co-author, with Lorna Jowett, of TV Horror: Investigating the Dark Side of the Small Screen (I.B. Tauris 2013)
Author of Angel: TV Milestone (Wayne State University Press, 2009)
Author of Celluloid Vampires (University of Texas Press, 2007)

Former President of the Whedon Studies Association (2014-16)
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