This is a call for chapters on the following FX Channel documentary and reality TV series: Morgan Spurlock’s 30 Days (2005), New York Times Presents (2020-2023), AKA Jane Roe (2020), Welcome to Wrexham (2022-present), and The Secrets of Hillsong (2023) for an edited book collection (The FX Reader), which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press. This collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series.
Each chapter is expected to focus on each series’ creation and production history, its overall aesthetics and key performances, core themes, its association with genre conventions, and relevance to the FX Channel.
Please send abstracts of 300-500 words identifying your chosen series accompanied by a short third person author bio (100 words max) to david.pierson@maine.edu as a Word document by January 6, 2025. Final chapters should be 5000 words including references, and will be due on March 31, 2025. For inquiries and questions on the availability of series, please feel free to contact David Pierson at david.pierson@maine.edu or Brian Faucette at brfaucette@gmail.com.
