UPDATE: [Cultural-Historical] Refractory â Series TV (1/15/08: Journal issue)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Lucian Chaffey
contact email: 

CALL FOR PAPERS â€" NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE

Refractory: a Journal of Entertainment Media is a refereed,
peer-reviewed, e-journal that explores the diverging and intersecting
aspects of current and past entertainment media. The journal is
published by the Cinema Studies Program, School of Culture and
Communication, University of Melbourne.

http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au/

Submission of completed articles (4â€"6000 words) + brief bio: 01/15/08
Publication: Autumn 2008

ISSUE THEME: Series TV: New fields of critical thought and radical
perspectives on series televisuality.

What is it to live with series television? Series television drama
generates multidimensional and radical narrative adventures, as well as
prescribing formulaic and oppressive aesthetic and ontological paradigms.
While it intersects with other narrative modes, series televisuality
continues to mutate and invent its own particular processes and raises its
own particular questions.

This forthcoming issue of Refractory seeks articles that address the
particularities of series televisuality, in its textual, theoretical, and
participatory dimensions, and which launch its theorisation into a variety
of new terrains.

In particular, articles of a rigorous intellectual standard are sought that
traverse new and radical fields of critical thought in regards to series
televisuality, or which create new concepts for exploring the politics,
aesthetics, and participatory processes of series televisuality.

Some suggestions include:
+ The intersection of series televisuality and concepts from continental
philosophy
+ The micropolitics of televisual series participation
+ Piracy and rearticulation
+ New territories of series televisuality, such as online modes of
delivery, divergent modes of production, and participatory assemblages
+ Non-English speaking series; series focusing on ethnic minorities
+ Ongoing narratives of terror and espionage
+ Space colonialism; indigenous dramas
+ Children’s and young adults series
+ Sexuality and gender issues in series television drama (such as queer or
lesbian situations in HBO dramas, issues of sexuality and culture or
ethnicity in series dramas, queer issues in young adult dramas, or trans
issues in any contemporary series dramas)
+ Class issues and series television drama
+ Narrativised “reality” forms
+ Series televisuality and the body in extremis
+ Articles addressing shows that have not yet received significant critical
attention, such as Skins, Night and Day, Shameless, Rome, Kick, The
Circuit, Primeval, The Tribe, or Sugar Rush.

Please direct all enquiries to guest editor Dr. Lucian Chaffey
(chaffeyl_at_unimelb.edu.au)

Please submit completed articles of 4â€"6000 words electronically as a rich
text format (rtf) document, emailed to guest editor Dr. Lucian Chaffey
(chaffeyl_at_unimelb.edu.au). To be considered for publication, please include
a (very) brief biography and institutional affiliation, and full contact
details.

Submission of completed articles by 15th January 2008.
Publication will be autumn 2008.

To be considered for publication, articles must follow the submission
guidelines for authors, detailed here:
http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au/home/toAuthors.html
Refractory is a fully refereed journal. All submissions will be anonymously
peer reviewed before acceptance.

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