Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) invites proposals for articles for a special issue of Critical Studies in Television:‘ Spaces of Television: Production, Site and Style’ to be published in Autumn 2015.
The journal issue emerges from a research project of the same name, investigating television fiction produced in the UK from 1955-94 and analysing how the material spaces of production (in TV studios and on location) conditioned the aesthetic forms of programmes. Papers that specifically address British drama during this period are particularly welcome, however comparative perspectives concerning dramas from other television industries, import/export, transnational exchange, co-productions and spatially-themed studies of earlier or later dramas will be also considered.
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Analysis of the dramatic conventions of television genres as demonstrated through the use of space and mise-en-scene.
- Case studies of television dramatists, actors, directors, producers, designers, or other production staff focusing on mise-en-scene and issues of space.
- The relationship between television dramatic space and performance, and the social and cultural meanings of performance in different spatial and aesthetic contexts.
- The spatial significance of particular production techniques and/or special effects in television drama.
- The social and cultural meanings of the spaces depicted in television drama: e.g. heritage spaces, the urban and the rural, regional, national and foreign spaces, fantasy spaces.
- The institutional and aesthetic relationships between the spaces of television production (studio, location) and dramas’ social, political and cultural meanings.
- Histories and historiographies of television drama, particularly relating to production strategies and institutional contexts.
Proposals for articles of 5,000-6,000 words, in the form of an abstract of approximately 400-500 words should be submitted to Dr Leah Panos (l.d.panos@reading.ac.uk) by 31 March 2014.
Further details of the project can be found at:
http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/research/Spacesoftelevision.aspx
