Update: The submission deadline has been extended to May 15, 2014
CALL FOR PAPERS ON TELEVISION
Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association 2014 Conference
Oct. 3-5, 2014
JW Marriott Indianapolis in Indianapolis, IN
10 S. West St., Indianapolis, IN 46204
Phone: (317) 860-5800.
The Television area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest
American Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its 2014
conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. We are looking for papers that examine
any aspect of television, from any time period, and using any number of
methods. Potential topics for paper or panel proposals include, but are not
limited to:
- The impact of online distribution and streaming and the rise of
Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon as producers of original programming
- The intersections between television and social media, from hashtags
to live-tweeting
- The representations of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and
class and economics
- The increasing discourse surrounding the showrunner as an auteur figure
- The “return” of miniseries and event series programming
- The role of remakes, reboots, spin-offs, adaptations, and franchises
- The trends in less “quality” genres and formats: talk shows, soap
operas, morning TV
Please submit a paper abstract of 250 words or a panel proposal including
short abstracts and titles of each prospective paper to the “Television”
area on the MPCA/ACA Submission website (submissions.mpcaaca.org). We
strongly encourage pre-constituted panel submissions. Please know that you
will need to register to the website in order to submit a proposal. Please
do not submit the same item to more than one Area.
Include name, affiliation, address, and e-mail address of each
author/participant. You must specify any AV and any special scheduling
needs with your proposal. MPCA/ACA can provide an LCD projector for
presentations.
If you have any questions about submissions to the Television area, please
contact area chair Cory Barker at [log in to unmask]
Further information about the conference and the Midwest Popular
Culture/American Culture Association is available at: http://www.mpcaaca.org
Please note the availability of graduate student travel grants:
http://mpcaaca.org/about/grants.html
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Cory Barker
Graduate Student
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University
twitter.com/corybarker
(765) 499-0080
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