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Please scroll down  for calls for papers on The Golden Age of Television Drama, Television and the Family Aesthetic, and Private Drama, Public Gold: Reality TV


Call for Papers

CFP: The Golden Age of Television Drama

An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference:
Golden Ages: Styles, Personalities, Genres, and Histories
October 29-November 2, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
Deadline for Abstracts: July 1, 2014

Area: The Golden Age of Television Drama

The television drama has been, and continues to be, one of the most important and contested elements of television production in the United States and around the world. In America, the genre—mostly episodic in style—came into its own in the late 1940s and early 1950s, experiencing what many call its first “Golden Age.”

In the 1980s, series like Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, L.A. Law, and Thirty Something marked the medium’s second “Golden Age.” These series adapted the serial form associated with the production of daytime soap operas in order to create stories that were long form, more complex in structure, and designed to attract a more educated and upscale audience. With the airing of shows such as Sex and the City, and The Sopranos on HBO in the 1990s, and Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and The Walking Dead in the 2000s on AMC, television critics suggest that America is experiencing its third  “Golden Age” of television dramas.

Why has the television drama continued to be one of the most vibrant forms of programming? How has the genre been able to incorporate numerous changes in terms of format, content, style, and production methods over time? This area invites 20-minute papers dealing with all aspects of understanding television drama and its relationship to the evolution of the medium and society.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

•	Early forms of American television drama such as Studio One, Kraft Television Theater, Playhouse 90
•	Anthology forms of drama series such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Twilight Zone and contemporary iterations in series like American Horror Story and True Detectives
•	Early writers and creators of television drama such as Rod Serling, Paddy Chayefsky, Stephen J. Cannell, etc.
•	The Role of cablevision in creating a new landscape for television drama, with series like The Sopranos, Deadwood, The Shield, Justified, Mad Men, Breaking Bad
•	Television drama Showrunners like Matthew Weiner, Graham Yost, Vince Gilligan, David Chase and the nature of television drama auteurship
•	The future of television drama in relation to convergence and transmedia
•	Changing modes of exhibition and reception for television dramas such as “binge-watching”

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are welcome. All proposals must include an abstract, contact information, including email for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).

Please email your 200-word proposal by 1 July 2014 to the area chair:

Dr. Brian Faucette
Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute
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CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: Television and the Family Aesthetic
An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference:
Golden Ages: Styles and Personalities, Genres and Histories
October 29-November 2, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2014

AREA: Television and the Family Aesthetic

As Horace Newcomb once observed, the television aesthetic is, in part, about the family.  While this is certainly true of such overt examples as “Ozzie and Harriet,” “Leave it to Beaver,” “Bonanza,” “The Waltons,” “All in the Family,” and “Modern Family,” it is also true of shows in which work place bonds served as surrogate.  Thus, the WJM newsroom became home and family for single Mary Richards on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” just as the precinct house became a friendly support system for  the cops of “Law and Order: SUV.”  

This family aesthetic, which has its roots in comic strips and radio, was certainly reinforced by the 1952 National Association of Broadcasters Code, which defined television as a “family medium,” and further noting that “It is the responsibility of television to bear constantly in mind that the audience is primarily a home audience, and consequently that television’s relationship to viewers is that between guest and host.” The question thus becomes how have nearly 70 years of television families, in their myriad forms and varieties, been portrayed to and received by its hosts?

This area invites 20-minute papers dealing with all aspects of the interrelationship between television and the family aesthetic. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Newspaper and radio roots of the “family” aesthetic in comedy and drama, such as “The Gumps” or “The Goldbergs.”
• The homogenization of the early TV family images as white, suburban, and middle class.
• The family in Westerns, such as the Cartwrights of “Bonanza” and the Barclays of “The Big Valley.”
• TVs single fathers, which displaced the reality of the single-female headed household with the comedy of single-dad run families such as “Bachelor Father,” “My Three Sons,” “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” and “Full House.”
• The contentious family, from “The Honeymooners” to “All in the Family” to “Rosanne.”
• The workplace as family in comedy and drama.
• The family in reality TV, from “An American Family” to “American Chopper.”
• The future of the television family.

Proposals for individual papers or complete panels (three related presentations) are welcome. All proposals must include an abstract, contact information, including email for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).

Please email your 200-word proposal by 1 July 2014 to the area chair:

Dr. Michael Kassel
The University of Michigan-Flint
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CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: Private Drama, Public Gold: Reality TV
An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference:
Golden Ages: Styles and Personalities, Genres and Histories
October 29-November 2, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2014

AREA: Private Drama, Public Gold: Reality TV

With an increasing number of sensational reality programs on both cable and network television, the new millennium is shaping up to be the “golden age” of reality TV.  Whether one is watching a bride-to-be duke it out with her maid of honor on Bridezillas, or a fashion designer having a meltdown on Project Runway, the pinnacle of reality TV is right now. Matchmaking, apprenticeships, cooking, weight loss, musical talent, special effects make-up, and extreme survival have all brought the “reality” of weekly competition into viewers’ living rooms, along with entrepreneurship (in shows like Kitchen Nightmares), cultural exposés (in shows like My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding), and makeovers (in shows like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy).  Under the auspices of the reality genre, everyday lives become scripted spectacle, while audiences serve as the ultimate voyeurs, seeing how “the other half” lives and indulging in their own fantasies of reality stardom. 

This area invites 20-minute papers exploring questions related to the culture, context, history, and impact of reality TV.  How do these shows align with – or help create – shifts and trends in culture, in America and elsewhere?  How do we interpret their star-making – or reputation-breaking – impacts?  How has reality TV changed viewer orientation to televised programming? What does the future of reality TV hold? 

Paper proposals exploring any of the multiple dimensions of reality television influence are welcome, from close critical analysis of a single reality show, to thematic examinations of clusters of programs.

Topics for further exploration may include, but are not limited to:

•	Makeover TV
•	Race, Class and Gender Representations
•	Children on Reality Television
•	History of Reality Television
•	Representations of the Body
•	Performativity
•	Reality Television Production
•	The Instant Celebrity
•	Reality TV Across Cultures
•	Global Reality TV Market
•	Audience Reception
•	The Future of Reality Television

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History website (www.filmandhistory.org).

Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 July 2014, to the area chair:

Christina Hodel

University of Kansas
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