31.690, Confs: Ling & Literature/Spain

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Subject: 31.690, Confs: Ling & Literature/Spain

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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:15:09
From: Carmen Gregori-Signes [tvseries at valencia.uv.es]
Subject: DISCOURSES of FICTIONAL (DIGITAL) TV SERIES

 
DISCOURSES of FICTIONAL (DIGITAL) TV SERIES 

Date: 03-Nov-2020 - 06-Nov-2020 
Location: Valencia, Spain 
Contact: Carmen Gregori-Signes 
Contact Email: tvseries at uv.es 
Meeting URL: https://congresos.adeituv.es/series20/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature 

Meeting Description: 

Popular culture has undoubtedly been influenced by TV series, shows and
sitcoms ever since television became a commodity in the middle-class
household. Such series epitomise the rich, diversified heritage of twentieth
and twenty-first-century consumer culture, reflecting in one way or another
the social and political scenario of their time. The ideas and concepts
beneath successful series are the product of the times; and it is also the
politics, financial demands and established ethos of such times that determine
and often limit the direction of the show and the type of discourse it
assimilates.

Although hit series have always drawn enthused groups of followers, fandom
itself seems to have become an empowered phenomenon in the last decades and
particularly in the last few years. Indeed, with the advent of personalised
service that streaming media, downloading, and video-on-demand offer, our
emotional and social connections to series have shifted. The fact that
companies such as Netflix or Amazon have, following the footsteps of
long-established public or cable channels such as HBO, ventured into producing
their own original series or miniseries goes to show the extent to which
(digital) TV series (DTVS) have gained momentum and are currently one of the
most profitable initiatives in the entertainment industry. Substantial
investments into quality script writing, casting, special effects, directing,
editing, and marketing, among other procedures, have ultimately delivered to
the public all sorts of audio-visual fictional narratives that address the
concerns and interests of a highly diversified viewership that is constantly
under the scrutiny of production companies. This cultural phenomenon has
caught the attention of scholars who, from a range of disciplines, have
approached the multi-signifying discursive significance that fictional DTVS,
as stories and products, have in current society.

In line with such scholarship, this conference aims to create a space in which
to analyse, discuss and debate the discursive and narrative aspects of
fictional DTVS. We seek to explore how competing discourses enable or confront
identity politics, how narrative structures implode viewer expectations, how
genre conventions are reinvented through discourse and audio-visual rhetoric,
and to ultimately delve into what such strategies say about English-speaking
cultures and communities.

Conference topics may include, but are not limited to:
 - Multimodal discourses in DTVS.
 - The function of dialogue and other forms of narrative in DTVS.
 - Characterisation. Innovations and stereotyping through characters’ unique
discourse.
- Identity politics based on race, ethnicity, religion, age, class, or species
in DTVS.
 - Gender and sexuality in DTVS. The use of DTVS as an innovative space for
raising awareness about social inequality
 - Sexual and gender-based politics. Denunciation of patriarchal discourses,
feminist utopias and dystopias.
 - Posthuman, transhuman, biotechnological and ecocritical discourses in DTVS:
the overcoming of humanism and the blurring of the boundaries between the
human, the technological and the animal.
 - From Ageing to Disability Studies in DTVS: portrayals of old age, illness,
disease, and the handicapped subject.
 - Screen adaptations. Conventional vs. experimental structures and narrative
plots in DTVS.
 - Fandom-related discourses and industries.

P.S. We invite you to contribute to the list of Online Bibliographic
References on (Digital) TV Series (see also Bednarek, M., & Zago, R. 2019)
 

Conference Information: 

The objective of this conference is to gather papers that study TV series from
as wide a range of disciplines as possible.

We are still accepting abstracts! Three types of proposals will be considered:

Individual papers: 
Please submit a 400-500-word abstract (excluding references), along with 5
keywords and a short bio-note. Each speaker will be given a maximum of 20
minutes for his or her presentation. More interactive types of presentations
are encouraged (as opposed to reading the paper). Abstracts should include
theoretical framework, methodological approach, findings and references.

Round tables: 
Round tables should not be conceived as a panel. They are to be designed
according to a particular topic of debate that is discussed amongst 3-4
participants (and potentially attendees), all of which bring in different
perspectives. The proposal should include both the individual abstracts
(400-500 words each) and an abstract by the chair (400-500 words) on the
development of the round table (summarising previous research, setting the
scope of the presentations and including open questions to engage with the
audience). 5 keywords and a short bio-note of the participants must also be
included.

Workshops: 
These should be practical and conducted by professionals and specialists,
within the entertainment industry, with experience in DTVS. Please submit a
1000-word description of the topic and the design of the workshop itself.

Please submit abstracts via
https://easychair.org/account/signin?l=qMsLhEqz72SohjBGwQhW22

Early Bird Registration is still open and can be accessed at:
https://congresos.adeituv.es/series20/inscripcion/index.en.html





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