Professor Robin Nelson, Janet McCabe and Kim Akass are founding and active editors of Critical Studies in Television (CST) – an international refereed hard copy journal that aims to provide a major forum for the presentation of original research and innovative discussion of television with a specific focus on small screen fictions. This includes episodic and serial dramas, continuing serial dramas like soaps and single plays, as well as considerations of groundbreaking and interactive fictions for the small screen.
CST acknowledges in its open title that the understanding of television texts extends to production and reception contexts and that it is increasingly difficult to delineate factual from fictional constructs. Thus, contributions locating television products in a wider range of issues (including cultural, political and social analysis) are welcome.Proposals on a diverse range of topics will be considered.
CST online is a scholarly resource and critical forum for studying television, sponsored by the Department of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University. It is our mission to enrich television studies by providing comprehensive access to information, as well as to disseminate knowledge and stimulate debate.
CST is scholarly but accessible. It takes current and past television seriously and aims to encourage the academic and broader intellectual communities to recognise the value of the critical study of small screen fictions in the broadest sense (see below, Notes for Authors). The journal invites analyses of the compositional principles and aesthetics of texts as well as research findings on related production and reception contexts. It welcomes contributions on present and past production. The immediacy of online publication is particularly suitable for a medium, which has both a major social impact and a rapid turnover. Besides refereed articles, CST online will also afford a space called TV Shorts, providing a forum for immediate responses to programmes, as well as a bulletin board for quick responses and open critical debate.
CST seeks to attract contributions from academics, scholar-fans and fan-scholars as well as programme-makers, industry-scholars and journalists.
Published by: Manchester University Press
Contributors: Paul Julian Smith, Bianca Lippert, Elke Weissmann,
Rhiannon Bury, Peter Jachimiak and Ruth McElroy
Vol 3. Issue 2. Autumn 2008
ISSN 1749-6020
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