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Michele Hilmes <[log in to unmask]>
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CALL FOR PAPERS

British Television Drama and US Imports: Aesthetics, Institutions, Histories.

Friday 24 March 2006.
A one-day symposium organised by the Centre for Television Drama Studies at 
the University of Reading, under the auspices of the AHRC-funded project 
British TV Drama and Acquired US Programmes 1970-2000.

  While the study of British television drama and US television drama 
respectively continues to thrive, little work exists on the 
interconnections between British and US television. American television 
programmes have been extremely popular in Britain, yet they are frequently 
omitted from critical discourse on British television. On the basis that a 
nations television landscape never consists merely of indigenous 
production, this symposium aims to explore how British television drama is 
affected by the import of television drama from the USA.
In particular (though not exclusively) we welcome papers that address the 
following questions:
    * What shapes the selection processes involved in the acquisition of US 
TV drama? What are the institutional and practical factors involved in this 
acquisition (e.g. regulation, package deals, scheduling and cost)?
    * How are US imports used by, and how do they work as part of, British 
broadcasting (especially in terms of scheduling, promotion, channel 
identity and public service)? What are the aesthetic consequences of these 
broadcast processes?
    * How do the meanings of television texts change because of their 
transatlantic journey?
    * How has the import of US television drama influenced aesthetic forms, 
genres, representations (e.g. gender, class, race), and production 
practices of British domestic television drama?
    * How have US imports affected the viewing experience of British 
television audiences?
    * What may be the national specificity of television drama from Britain 
and the US, and what may be shared? How does television drama locate this 
specificity?
    * How do the different histories, institutions and evaluative schemas 
in the US and Britain inflect the term quality differently and contribute 
to the quality debate?
    * Conversely, how are British programmes exported to the US? How are 
they used, scheduled, received, and what is their influence?
The day is expected to run from 10am 5pm. Papers should be no more than 20 
minutes in length (including any audio-visual extracts). Please send 
abstracts of 250 words by Monday 16 January 2006 to Simone Knox via email 
(<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]) or post: Simone Knox, 
University of Reading, Department of Film, Theatre & Television, Bulmershe 
Court, Woodlands Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG6 1HY. Visit the symposium 
website at 
<http://www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/research/BritishTVdramaandUSimports.htm>http://www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/research/BritishTVdramaandUSimports.htm. 



Michele Hilmes
Professor of Media and Cultural Studies
Director, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Department of Communication Arts
University of Wisconsin-Madison

6040 Vilas Hall
821 University Ave.
Madison, WI  53706

608-262-2543
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608-262-9953 fax 

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