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Nancy San Martin <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 4 Jan 2000 07:21:45 -0800
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please circulate, nsm

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Proposed Panel for the Annual Meeting of the
American Studies Association
Detroit, Michigan
11-14 October 2000

Call for Papers:
Performing Propriety and Policing Behavior on Television Talk Shows

This panel will examine the tension between propriety and excess on
television talk shows.  A genre often charged with obscene, tasteless
excess, talk shows, ironically, chastise unseemly guests who exceed the
boundaries of good taste, staging scenes that normalize decorous public
behavior; curtail physical, sartorial, sexual, or recreational
immoderation; reject liminality; and impose publically suitable racial,
sexual, and class boundaries.

Papers might address tactics that induce gender-appropriate behavior in
women and girls (makeovers, confessions, pageants, boot camp); the
spectacle of transexual, transgendered, or intersexual guests; "indecent"
sexualities or fantasies; gay, lesbian, and/or bisexual love triangles;
generic conventions that impose or hamper decorum (expert opinions, staged
apologies, humiliating surprise guests, body guards); studio and viewing
audience participation; morally questionable or morally superior hosts;
racialization and inappropriate language(s); unruly animals; "freaks";
inappropriate social and class mobility; broadcasting practices and
censorship.

Papers on talk show offshoots (_Forgive and Forget_, _Love Connection_,
_Change of Heart_, etc.) are welcome.  Discussions may consider network,
cable, cable-access, or local public television in Mexico, Canada, the
Caribbean, or US.  Multimedia and online formats encouraged.  Submissions
are invited from all disciplines.

Please send a 500-word abstract and 1-2 page cv to Nancy San Martin at
[log in to unmask] by January 10, 2000.  To facilitate submission of
the panel proposal, please indicate audio-visual needs.  No attachments
please.  Electronic submissions only.

Please note that all participants must register for the annual meeting of
the American Studies Association and be members of the ASA or one of its
international or regional US affiliates.

Nancy San Martin
History of Consciousness
University of California, Santa Cruz
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http://www2.ucsc.edu/woc/ASAnsm.html

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