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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:59:28 -0700
From: Aniko Imre <aimre la cinema.usc.edu>
Subject: [cultstud-l] cfp: book on popular television in (post)socialist
Eastern Europe


Call for Proposals, Entertaining a New Europe: Popular Television in
Socialist and Postsocialist Eastern Europe, edited by Timothy Havens
(University of Iowa), Aniko Imre (University of Southern California), and
Katalin Lustyik (Ithaca College)

We invite contributions for a proposed edited volume, Entertaining a New
Europe: Popular Television in Socialist and Postsocialist Eastern Europe.
Please send a brief abstract (200-300 words) and biographical statement
(50-100 words) to timothy-havens la uiowa.edu or imre la usc.edu by December 1,
2009. Full papers will be due in fall 2010.

This collection of essays responds to the recent surge of interest in
popular television in Eastern Europe, including both contemporary and
historical studies. This increased attention follows the “New Europe’s”
transition from state-controlled, relatively isolated national media
systems to an increasingly integrated European media sphere thoroughly
permeated by processes of globalization and media convergence.
Television’s transformation has been especially spectacular, evolving from
a state-controlled broadcast system delivering national, regional, and
heavily filtered Western programming to an increasingly deregulated,
multi-platform, transnational system delivering predominantly American and
Western European entertainment programming. Consequently, the nations of
Eastern Europe provide opportunities to examine the complex interactions
among economic and funding systems, regulatory policies, globalization,
imperialism, popular culture, and cultural identity. We intend this
  collection as the first serious effort to establish critical television
studies in relation to Eastern Europe.

Essays may address any aspect of popular television in Eastern Europe,
including the following: the histories of socialist and postsocialist
television; national and regional program flows during socialism and
today; the socialist satellite system; television program trade;
censorship; East-West connections during socialism and today; cross-border
television, convergence and globalization; Europeanization, television and
national identity; gender and television in Eastern Europe; quality TV;
educational television; children’s television; popular television genres
(e.g. soap operas, serial dramas) and television formats (e.g. reality
shows, game shows); fandom and stardom; nostalgia; advertising; television
and new media; television and film; socialism, consumerism, and
consumption.



Timothy Havens, Ph D.
Associate Professor of Communication Studies
Associate Professor of African American Studies
The University of Iowa
121 Becker Communication Studies Building
Iowa City, IA 52242-1498
(319) 335-0614
Fax: (319) 335-2930

Aniko Imre
Assistant Professor of Critical Studies
School of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California
Los Angeles
imre la usc.edu


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