[medoc] VIEW Journal CfP: TV Formats and Format Research

[Erwin Verbruggen]

Dear colleagues,

please find the latest call for papers for VIEW below (or online at:
http://blog.euscreen.eu/archives/6926).

Kind regards,

Erwin Verbruggen
EUscreenXL network
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
support at viewjournal.eu

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VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture devotes its 9th
issue (Spring 2016) to *TV Formats and Format Research: Theory,
methodology, history and new developments*.

This special issue of VIEW seeks to build on existing format scholarship
and deepen our understanding of the history and continuing growth of the TV
format business from a European perspective.

VIEW Journal Issue 09 (Spring 2016)
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Offering an international platform for outstanding academic research on
television, VIEW Journal has an interdisciplinary profile. It acts both as
a platform for critical reflection on the cultural, social and political
role of television in Europe’s past and present as well as a multi-media
platform for the circulation and use of digitized audiovisual material.

The journal’s main aim is to function as a showcase for a creative and
innovative use of digitised television material in scholarly work. It
intends to inspire a fruitful discussion between audiovisual heritage
institutions (especially television archives) and a broader community of
television experts and amateurs.

In offering a unique technical infrastructure for a multi-media
presentation of critical reflections on European television, the journal
aims to stimulate innovative narrative forms of online storytelling, making
use of the digitised audiovisual collections of television archives around
Europe.

Call for Papers: TV Formats and format research
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This special issue of VIEW seeks to build on the existing format
scholarship and deepen our understanding of the history and the continuing
growth of the TV Format business from a European perspective. During the
last 15 years format research has grown into a notable, distinct field of
academic investigation alongside the dramatic expansion of the trade in TV
formats. Format research attempts to:

• Historicise the TV format business;
• Theorise formats and their audiences;
• Uncover business practices and rationales;
• Understand the resulting transformations in the patterns and flows of
international programme trade;
• Illuminate localisation practice;
• Reveal and contextualise the particularities of specific local
adaptations;
• Understand the implications of format imports for local production.

We seek contributions that can advance our theoretical and methodological
approaches to television formats, address the latest trends in TV
formatting, and/or fill other gaps in format scholarship. We welcome
contributions in the form of either short articles (2000-4500 words) or
video and audio essays.

Theory, methodology, history and new developments
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Proposals are invited on (but not limited to):

• Production and/or distribution patterns and trends of TV formats
developed in or imported into Europe;
• Historical cases of successful and/or failed attempts of selling formats
out of or into Europe;
• Significant European TV format players (national or multinational
production and/or distribution companies);
• National or European policies that address TV formats in relation to
quotas;
• Transnational cultures relating to TV formats (e.g. shared cultures of
television production and/or distribution, television aesthetics, or
viewing cultures);
• The impact of formatting television on programme flows, local production,
genre development, scheduling and/or modes of television consumption and
reception;
• Video and audio essays presenting primary sources (e.g. oral interviews,
audio-visual material) or other ways of exploring TV formats in Europe.

Practical
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Deadline for abstracts: September 1, 2015
Deadline for full papers: December 15, 2015

Contributions are encouraged from authors with different expertise and
interests in media studies, television broadcasting, political economy of
communication, media economics and media industries, audience studies, from
researchers to television professionals, to archivists and
preservationists. We welcome contributions in the form of articles and
video essays.

Paper Proposals (max. 500 words) are due on September 1, 2015.

Submissions should be sent to the managing editor of the journal, Dana
Mustata <journal at euscreen.eu>.
Articles (2-4,000 words) and video essays will be due on December 15, 2015.

For further information or questions about the issue, please contact the
co-editors:
John Ellis <John.Ellis at rhul.ac.uk>, Andrea Esser <a.esser at roehampton.ac.uk>
and Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano <jfg at uma.es>.

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VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
http://www.viewjournal.eu
https://twitter.com/viewjournaleu
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