CFP: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE (FLOWTV; 03/15/09)



Why write about Saturday Night Live?  It's passé, inconsistent, uses a  

format (variety show/guest host) from a bygone era, and with each  

coming year, everyone complains about its supposed steady decline in  

quality.  But perhaps that's exactly why Saturday Night Live is  

important: after more than 30 years, it continues its hold on the  

American popular imagination, despite massive fluctuations in  

audience, reception, and tone.  FlowTV invites submissions that  

address SNL's cultivation of star (for both hosts and the regular  

"cast"), format, flow, politics, evolution, gender, race, nostalgia,  

cultural satire, role in viral video, individual skits and their  

resonance, and spin-offs (movies and television shows, including  

Flow's Top Show of 2008, 30 Rock).  Why is Saturday Night Live still  

important?  You tell us.



Please send submissions of between 1000-1500 words to Jacqueline  

Vickery ([log in to unmask]) and Annie Petersen  

([log in to unmask]) no later than March 15th, 2009.  Flow  

has a longstanding policy of encouraging non-jargony, highly readable  

pieces, as well as the incorporation of images and video.  For  

examples, please visit FlowTV.org.



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