Hi Maire,

is this a guessing game?  Shopping channels?  Channel No 846 on the  
on-screen guide (whatever that is, no-one will find it)? trailers?   
the weather? disappearing programmes fro 8-14 year olds?  late night  
signing for the deaf?  give up!


Pat



On 7 Apr 2009, at 18:04, M Messenger Davies wrote:

> Dear Brett - and Meccsa colleagues
>
> What an intriguing idea.
>
> I received your message as I was writing about the most invisible  
> (to media academics) TV genre of all, not mentioned in your list,  
> not mentioned in standard collections of essays about television  
> and its drama, or its news, or its entertainment shows,  not  
> mentioned in standard collections about media generally, and just  
> generally not mentioned.
>
> And I'm not going to mention it either. Back to work
>
> best wishes
>
> Máire MD
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brett Mills <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 17:57:16 +0100
> Subject: Call for Papers: 'Invisible Television'
>
> Apologies for Cross-Posting
>
> Proposals for papers are invited for a forthcoming special edition of
> Critical Studies in Television (http:// 
> www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com/)
> to be published in Spring 2010.
>
> Invisible Television
> Certain television programmes get watched by lots of people (Top  
> Gear, New
> Tricks, Antiques Roadshow, Emmerdale): certain programmes get  
> written about
> a lot (The Office, Big Brother, The Wire). This means that some  
> television
> programmes are far more visible to the academic and critical  
> community than
> others. This special edition aims to offer space for such invisible
> programmes to be explored, offering new models for the critical  
> enquiry of
> television, as well as examining why it is that there so often  
> seems to be a
> disparity between what mass audiences watch and what the academy  
> chooses to
> write about. While this topic may be of concern to global studies of
> television, this issue aims to focus on television in the UK as an  
> initial
> case study for these debates.
>
> Proposals are invited that explore: specific programmes conventionally
> invisible to academic writing; particular genres conventionally  
> invisible to
> academic writing; debates concerning the misfit between academic  
> consumption
> of television and that of mass audiences; methodological debates  
> relevant to
> visibility and invisibility; consequences of visibility and  
> invisibility;
> other relevant approaches and issues. The editors are particularly  
> keen to
> receive proposals on Antiques Roadshow; New Tricks; wildlife  
> documentaries;
> My Family; The One Show.
>
> Note: submissions have already been commissioned on soap operas;  
> Top Gear;
> The Bill; issues of access via DVD; issues of 'quality' in  
> television drama;
> and the relationships between teaching and invisibility.
>
> Please forward 200-word proposals by 4 May 2009 to Brett Mills
> ([log in to unmask]); any enquiries to this address also.
> Completed articles of 5-6,000 words will have a submission deadline  
> of 5
> October 2009, for publication in Spring 2010.
>
>
> Professor Máire Messenger Davies
> Director, Centre for Media Research
> http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/media/cmr.html
> Director, Media Studies Research Institute, http:// 
> www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/research/media_studies/index.htm
>
> School of Media, Film & Journalism
> University of Ulster at Coleraine
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> Northern Ireland
>
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