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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face=TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;font-weight:bold'>MIA Call For Papers<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face=TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;font-weight:bold'>Television Comedy and
Light Entertainment<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face=TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;font-weight:bold'>Theme Editors: <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Felicity Collins</st1:PersonName>, Sue Turnbull and <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Susan Bye</st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><font size=3
face=TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;font-weight:bold'>Abstracts (300 words) with
biographical note by: 20 April 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;font-weight:bold'>Full Papers (4,000 –
5,000) words due: 1 July 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>When writing his 1973 monograph on ‘light
entertainment’, Richard Dyer quoted from an ITV communication in which an
unnamed writer decried the tendency for comedy and light entertainment
‘to be lumped together as though they belonged in some rather disreputable
bargain-basement of broadcasting’. Although it continues to be cited as
the poor cousin of other more serious TV forms (Mills, 2001, 61), comedy (with
the support of its more upmarket cousin, satire) has begun to emerge from the
bargain basement. Indeed, John Corner sees television as the creator of
‘a culture of public comedy’ that engages with and transforms
collective systems of value: ‘the way in which certain themes move into,
and out of, the realm of the comic…is very much a television-guided
process, even if it also involves television reflecting broader shifts and
trends in the culture of humour’ (1999, 97). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Light entertainment, however, is still stuck in
the bargain basement, largely because it refers to both a type of
‘undemanding’ television show that people enjoy watching, and to a
style of TV not sufficiently serious to merit a generic description of its own.
Here, we retain the category because of its capacity to link together a diverse
range of television styles, and also because of its longstanding investment in
comedy. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>This themed issue will provide an opportunity
for the serious consideration of the various ways in which light entertainment
and comedy intersect with the social and broadcast contexts in which they are
produced. Comedy and light entertainment are also part of a longstanding TV
tradition inflected by the inclusiveness of their address as well as a
particular promise of ‘time out’ in which the light-hearted quip,
silly mistake or funny anecdote form a continuum with more sustained comedy performances.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Abstracts are invited that deal with<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3 face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Television comedy <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3 face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Light Entertainment in the context of
television<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3 face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>The connection of television comedy
and/or light entertainment to older entertainment traditions<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3 face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Potential transformations of this
TV-specific regime of pleasure within the changing context of television
delivery<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3 face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Television comedy and light
entertainment produced outside the Anglo-American tradition.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;text-autospace:none'><font
size=3 face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
150%;font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Transnational television comedy<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=3
face=TimesNewRomanPSMT><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;
font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT'>Please send abstracts to <a
href="mailto:s.bye@latrobe.edu.au">s.bye@latrobe.edu.au</a> by 20 April 2009<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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