Fwd: CFP: Global (Tele)visions (SCMS in Tokyo, May 21-24, 2009)

[Aaron Gerow]

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>
> From: "Aviva Dove-Viebahn" <adovevie at mail.rochester.edu>
>
> Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
> Tokyo, Japan
> May 21-24, 2009
>
> Call for Papers for a Proposed Panel
>
> GLOBAL (TELE)VISIONS
>
> This is a general call for papers for a proposed panel about  
> television
> and televisuality in a global context for the Society for Cinema and
> Media Studies annual conference, which will be held in Tokyo, Japan  
> this
> year. Once I have received and selected abstracts for the panel, I  
> will
> craft a more specific abstract to submit to SCMS. Please email me with
> inquiries and abstracts by August 10th.
>
> Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
>
> - television's impact on globalization (or globalization's impact on
> television)
> - the broadcasting and planning of internationally-televised sporting
> events, such as the Olympics or World Cup
> - national identity and national media production
> - television and war
> - race, nation and visibility as reflected on/in (inter)national
> television
> - cross-cultural television censorship (e.g. the censoring of American
> programs in a foreign context)
> - international politics, propaganda and television
> - dubbing and subbing of television programs; also, fan-dubbing/ 
> subbing
> of television shows (e.g. the fan-subbing of Japanese anime on sites
> like YouTube)
> - comparisons of international television show remakes (e.g.  
> British and
> American versions of "The Office" or Israeli and American versions of
> "In Treatment")
> - international celebrity/celebrities
> - multiculturalism and/or multiracialism as presented by/on American
> television
> - the televisual portrayal of America in an international context
>
> All topics and perspectives (i.e. industry or cultural) are equally
> encouraged.
>
> If interested, please send a 300-word abstract and short bio to
> adovevie at mail.rochester.edu by midnight, August 10, 2008.