Serial culture in Asia - Panoptikum nr 27 2022

Serial culture in Asia

Asian audiovisual culture fascinates researchers of film art all over the world, and the research displaying tropes, codes, or genres of Asian production markets expands the view on global social processes. In this call for papers, we would like to focus primarily on TV shows from Asia, emphasizing particular titles and phenomena that reach viewers around the globe.

Deadline for submitting proposals: 31.05.2022

We invite researchers, scholars and practitioners to submit the proposals through our platform: https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/panoptikum/about/submissions

Please, contact us if you have any further questions concerning the application process: info@panoptikum.pl. 

More about the Journal: https://czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/panoptikum/about

We accept proposals in English and Polish.

We welcome articles concerning the themes listed below. However, we do not limit the extent of the topic and encourage authorial reflection concerning serial culture in Asia.

• the success of Asian TV shows on the Western markets
• j-drama, k-drama and other popular types of Asian TV shows
• Asian TV shows on streaming services
• serial nostalgia – Asian TV series before the streaming era – animation and drama
• the phenomenon of Squid game and media discussion around it
• Asian animated series – transformations, development; Japanese, Korean and Chinese animations
• anime from America – production issues, franchise and merchandising
• the review of global research on Asian TV series
• Genres in Asian TV series
• actors and acting in Asian TV series
• Asian TV series in a social context
• fans, fandoms and Asian TV series at fan conventions
• directors, authors and actors
• recurring themes, plots and events
• culture and traditions – images of locality in Asian TV series
• topography and geography of serial worlds
• Asian online and interactive series
• Asian computer games as interactive series
• Asian para-documentaries – differences between the East and the West
• psychological studies of the heroes of Asian series
• paranormal and fantastic plots in Asian series
• cult series/cult titles on Asian ground
• utopias and post-worlds in Asian series