Television Narratives Symposium

Call for Papers

The narratives of TV drama have long since moved beyond the structural parameters of the single play, the serial and the series to embrace more hybrid, complex and expansive forms.

This one-day symposium seeks to investigate such expansions in the form and content of TV narratives.

• What effects have changing trends in television narrative had upon television aesthetics, storytelling and spectatorship?
• How have they impacted upon the contributions of writers, producers, directors and performers working within TV drama?

We are interested in all aspects of television narrative, and particularly welcome submissions relating to:

• Transnational Television Narratives
• Television Adaptations and Remakes
• Television Paratexts and Narrative
• Narrative Complexity
• Narrative and Genre
• Contemporary Flexi-Narrative form.

Please send abstracts of 2-300 words to both Marty Zeller-Jacques (maz500@york.ac.uk) and Christopher Hogg (crh113@york.ac.uk). Papers should be no more than 20 minutes long in order to leave time for discussion.  The deadline for entry is Friday 22nd April and we aim to respond to all submissions by 29th April.