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. ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]