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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">Edited Collection – Ryan Murphy:
Genre, Gender and Authorship</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">Editors:</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">Dr. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">Melanie Robson (UNSW
Sydney), Dr. Jessica Ford (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">University
of Newcastle, Australia) </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">and Dr. Phoebe Macrossan (Queensland University of
Technology)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">In his 20 years in the US television industry Ryan
Murphy has amassed a large and diverse body of television work. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">Murphy exemplifies the modern TV mogul, operating as an executive
producer, creator, showrunner, writer and director on a wide range of series.
Murphy is well-known for creating or co-creating <i>Nip/Tuck </i>(FX 2003-2010)<i>, Glee
</i>(FOX 2009-2015)<i>, American Horror
Story </i>(FX 2011-)<i>, Scream Queens </i>(FOX
2015-2016)<i>, American Crime Story </i>(FX
2016-)<i>, Feud </i>(FX 2017), <i>Pose </i>(FX 2018-), <i>9-1-1 </i>(FOX 2018-) and <i>The
Politician </i>(Netflix 2019-), among others<i>.
</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">In
2018, Murphy signed an unprecedented $300 million deal with streaming giant
Netflix to create content for the platform for the next five years. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Murphy’s television series and made-for-TV
movies have been distributed across broadcast</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">, cable and streaming, and
they have a distinct recognizable style and aesth</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">etic. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">Murphy has re-popularised
the television anthology format and is known for his camp aesthetics and
experiments with </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">genre, form
and style. Murphy’s television series often champion underdogs and
non-traditional lead characters, such as people of colour, minoritized women,
trans* and non-binary characters and people who are diverse in their sexuality,
gender, and/or sex characteristics. While these characters may be marginalized
in other television series, in Murphy’s series they are rendered in complex and
dynamic ways, challenging and subverting gender and genre expectations. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">This edited collection </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Times">seeks
to investigate the key concerns, forms, and central abiding questions of
Murphy’s television oeuvre, paying particular attention to the question of how
and why his particular creative and business decisions have made him so powerful
in the current television and streamed content environment. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">We are particularly
interested in papers that address how Murphy and his work sits at the
intersection of many contemporary debates in television studies around genre,
gender and authorship, including but not limited to:</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Genre studies of Murphy’s work</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Genre hybridity and fluidity </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Questions of television aesthetics and style </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">“Quality” television, “cinematic” television and
“peak” TV</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Movie stars on television and television celebrity</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Expansion of television distribution networks </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Shifting genre boundaries and expectations </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Diversity of voices and perspectives on television </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Non-traditional television protagonists, including
queer characters, older women, trans* characters and people of colour</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Questions of gender and sexuality in visual culture</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Changing models of television authorship</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Questions of television authorship, paratexts and
branding </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt 36pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">And more </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Please send 400-word abstracts and a short bio to
Melanie Robson (<a href="mailto:m.robson@unsw.edu.au" target="_blank">m.robson@unsw.edu.au</a>) by April 1, 2020. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">If you have any questions or concerns, please contact
Jessica Ford <a href="mailto:jessica.ford@newcastle.edu.au" target="_blank">jessica.ford@newcastle.edu.au</a> or Phoebe Macrossan on </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:phoebe.macrossan@qut.edu.au" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">phoebe.macrossan@qut.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times">Notification of acceptance: May 1, 2020. </span></p>
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peer reviewed.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Times"> </span></p><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2"><b>Dr Phoebe Macrossan</b></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="2">T: <a href="https://twitter.com/phoebemack" target="_blank">@phoebemack</a><br>W: <a href="http://unsw.academia.edu/PhoebeMacrossan" target="_blank">unsw.academia.edu/PhoebeMacrossan</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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