CFP: CRAS Special Issue on "New Television"

I am soliciting essay contributions for a special issue of *The Canadian
Review of American Studies* (*CRAS*) on the topic of "new television."
Please see below.

There is a gathering consensus that television began to undergo a marked
transformation at the end of the twentieth century. Two decades into the
twenty-first century, an ever-increasing number of cable and streaming
series are conjuring the emergence of a world liquidated of normative
authority, saturated with media-technological developments, and struggling
to find its bearings in the fray. In *New Television: The Aesthetics and
Politics of a Genre*, Martin Shuster refers to this still-unfolding genre
as “new television” on account of both its relatively new narrative
coordinates and its efforts to think through the bewildering contours of a
rapidly changing world.

With all of this in mind, we are currently putting together a special issue
of *The Canadian Review of American Studies* on the topic of “new
television.” We are seeking essay-length explorations of this predominantly
American genre’s uptake of recent political, technological, and cultural
shifts as well as currents in cinematic and literary fiction. We are
especially interested in analyses of one or several of the following
series: *The Sopranos*, *The Wire*, *Six Feet Under*, *Deadwood*, *Breaking
Bad*, *Better Call Saul*, *Mad Men*, *True Detective*, *House of Cards*,
*Weeds*, *Veep*, *Transparent*, and* High Maintenance*.

Please send a 300-word abstract and a 100-word bio, c/o Daniel Adleman, to
[email protected] by August 1, 2019.






Daniel Adleman
Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric
Innis College
University of Toronto

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