For more detailed information on this conference, please see below.

Dr Shelley Cobb
English and Film
Faculty of Humanities
University of Southampton
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/english/about/staff/sc1p07.page




On 28/10/2013 15:47, "Anita Biressi" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>'Sex and the City Ten Years On: Landmark Television and its Legacy'
>Conference at the University of Roehampton, London, Friday April 4 2014
>Reminder - abstract deadline ­ November 17 2013
> 
>It is just three weeks till the CFP for the conference closes ­ The WMSN
>is delighted to announce that we are sponsoring the conference which is
>being organised by Deborah Jermyn.  The first of the plenary speakers
>have been confirmed as Kim Akass (Uni of Hertfordshire) and Janet McCabe
>(Birkbeck, Uni of London)
> 
> 
>2014 will mark ten years since the final episode of Sex and the City (HBO
>1998-2004) was broadcast. During the programme¹s six seasons, and
>throughout the decade following its finale, Sex and the City has
>continued to be recognised as one of the most contentious and cherished
>series in recent television history, having tapped into a zeitgeist
>consumed by postfeminism to become a cultural touchstone. In a July 2013
>New Yorker article, Emily Nussbaum lamented the manner in which the show
>has been Œdowngraded to a Œguilty pleasure¹¹ by some, while male-centred
>series are readily revered, reminding readers that this was Œsharp,
>iconoclastic television. High-feminine instead of fetishistically
>masculine, glittery rather than gritty and daring in its conception of
>character¹. Embraced and vilified with unforgettable vehemence by
>audiences, critics and the media, this conference will explore the ways
>in which the impact of SATC continues to be felt across popular culture.
>The SATC brand or franchise lives on, in an Œafterlife¹ that has included
>the TV series¹ international syndication; the release of two Sex and the
>City movies; Candace Bushnell¹s literary prequels to her original Sex and
>the City newspaper column and novel; TV prequel The Carrie Diaries; and
>broadly, a television marketplace that is hugely indebted to the ways in
>which the series rewrote the boundaries of the medium.
> 
>ŒSex and the City Ten Years On: Landmark Television and its Legacy¹ will
>mark this anniversary by revisiting the lasting influence of the series,
>its cultural circulation today and its impact on the medium of
>television. Topics for papers may include, but are not limited to:
>
>-       SATC in translation and transnational contexts
>-       SATC in syndication and the contexts of HBO/cable v network
>television
>-       SATC and adaptation (newspaper column to Œnovel¹ to TV series to
>film)
>-       The transition of the series from small to big screen
>-       The reception of, and controversies surrounding, the SATC movies
>-       Television and postfeminism
>-       Fashion television
>-       Television and authorship
>-       The relationship between SATC and subsequent women-centred series
>(eg The L Word; Desperate Housewives; Mistresses; Girls)
>-       Television and stardom
>-       Queer television
>-       TV and genre/generic hybridity
>-       Magazine and newspaper journalism and popular television
>-       The role of key players in SATC (cf Darren Star, Michael Patrick
>King, Patricia Field)
>-       Reception, fandom and anti-fandom
>-       Recontextualising SATC in the recession
>-       Television and consumerism
>-       Women, language and female talk
>-       Television and taboo
>-       Women and comedy
>-       Television, NYC and representations of urban space
>
>
>Any enquiries, and abstracts of approx. 300 words with a brief biog,
>should be sent to Deborah Jermyn at
> 
>[log in to unmask]  by November 17th.
>The conference Twitter account will be @SATC10th
>with a Facebook group at ŒSATC 10 Years On Conf¹.