Call for Papers VIEW Journal of European Television and Culture (Vol. 5, No. 9, Summer 2016) TV Formats and format research - theory, methodology, history and new developments Deadline for abstracts: September 1, 2015 Deadline for full papers: December 15, 2015 VIEW, Journal of European Television History and Culture (http://viewjournal.eu), the first peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal in the field of television studies, will devote its Summer 2016 issue to: TV Formats and format research - theory, methodology, history and new developments During the last 15 years format research has grown into a notable, distinct field of academic investigation alongside the dramatic expansion of the trade in TV formats. Format research work attempts to:

• historicize the TV format business, • theorize formats and their audiences, • uncover business practices and rationales, • understand the resulting transformations in the patterns and flows of international programme

trade. • illuminate localization practices, • reveal and contextualize the particularities of specific local adaptations, • understand the implications of format imports for local production.

This special issue of View seeks to build on the existing format scholarship and deepen our understanding of the history and the continuing growth of the TV Format business from a European perspective. We seek contributions, which can advance our theoretical and methodological approaches to television formats, which address the latest trends in TV formatting, and/or fill other gaps in format scholarship. We welcome contributions in the form of short articles (2000-4500 words), video and audio essays. Proposals are invited on (but not limited to):

• Production and/or distribution patterns and trends of TV formats developed in or imported into Europe;

• Historical cases of successful and/or failed attempts of selling formats out of or into Europe; • Significant European TV format players (national or multinational production and/or

distribution companies); • National or European policies that address TV formats in relation to quotas; • Transnational cultures relating to TV formats (e.g. shared cultures of television production

and/or distribution, television aesthetics, or viewing cultures); • The impact of formatting television on programme flows, local production, genre

development, scheduling and/or modes of television consumption and reception; • Video and audio essays presenting primary sources (e.g. oral interviews, audio-visual

material) or other ways of exploring TV formats in Europe.

Contributions are encouraged from authors with different expertise and interests in media studies, television broadcasting, political economy of communication, media economics and media industries, audience studies, from researchers to television professionals, to archivists and preservationists. Paper proposals (max. 500 words) are due on September 1 2015. Submissions should be sent to the managing editor of the journal, Dana Mustata (journal@euscreen.eu). Articles (2-4,000 words) will be due on December 15 2015. For further information or questions about the issue, please contact the guest-editors: John Ellis (John.Ellis@rhul.ac.uk), Andrea Esser (a.esser@roehampton.ac.uk) or Juan Francisco Gutiérrez Lozano (jfg@uma.es). VIEW, Journal of European Television History and Culture (http://viewjournal.eu) is the first peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal in the field of television studies. Offering an international platform for outstanding academic research on television, the journal has an interdisciplinary profile and acts both as a platform for critical reflection on the cultural, social and political role of television in Europe's past and present as well as a multi-media platform for the circulation and use of digitized audiovisual

material. The journal's main aim is to function as a showcase for a creative and innovative use of digitized television material in scholarly work, and to inspire a fruitful discussion between audiovisual heritage institutions (especially television archives) and a broader community of television experts and amateurs. In offering a unique technical infrastructure for a multi-media presentation of critical reflections on European television, the journal aims at stimulating innovative narrative forms of online storytelling, making use of the digitized audiovisual collections of television archives around Europe. Key references Chalaby, J. (2015). The Advent of the Transnational TV Format Trading System: A Global

Commodity Chain Analysis, Media, Culture and Society (accepted version available at: http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/4153/)

Chalaby, J. (2011) The Making of an Entertainment Revolution: How the TV Format Trade Became a Global Industry, European Journal of Communication, 26(4): 293–309.

Esser, A. (2015, Forthcoming) Localisation and the local – taking the audience into account, in Esser, A., I.R. Smith and M. Bernal-Merino (eds) Media Across Borders: Localisation in Television, Film and Video Games, London: Routledge.

Esser, A. (2013) The Format Business: Franchising Television Content, International Journal of Digital Television, 4(2): 141--58.

Gutiérrez Lozano, J. F. (2010) Public TV and regional cultural policy in Spain as reflected through the experience of Andalusian regional television, Cultural Trends, 19(1-2): 53-63.

Hill, A. and J. Steemers (2011) Big Formats, Small Nations: Does Size Matter?, in Lowe, G. and Nissen C. (eds) Broadcasting in Smaller States, Goteborg: Nordicom.

Jäger, E. and S. Behrens (2009) The FRAPA report 2009. TV formats to the world. Cologne/Hürth: FRAPA.

Jensen, P.M. (2012) How media system rather than culture determines national variation: Danish Idols and Australian Idol compared, in Zwaan, K. & de Bruin, J. (eds) Adapting Idols. Ashgate.

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Moran, A. (ed.) (2009) TV Formats Worldwide: Localizing Global Programs. Bristol: Intellect. Oren, T. and S. Shahaf (eds)(2012) Global Television Formats. London: Routledge. Waisbord, S. (2004) McTV. Understanding the global popularity of television formats, Television &

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