Hi all
Details below of conference at Brunel University in January. 
cheers
geoff king


The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to 'Reality' TV and Beyond

Brunel University 25-26 January 2003

Keynote speakers: 

Douglas Kellner, UCLA

Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology

Conference Fees

£95 for both days (students £65)

£50 for one day (students £35)

Programme

SATURDAY 25 January

Registration/coffee, 9-10

Keynote, 10 -11

Douglas Kellner, UCLA, '9-11, Terror War and Media Spectacle: Welcome to the New
Orwellian World'

Coffee

Session 1: Spectacle, Ideology, Catastrophe 11.30 -1.15

Eugene Arva, University of Miami, 'Life as Show Time: Aesthetic Images and
Ideological Spectacles'

Lee Rodney, Goldsmiths, London, 'Real-time, Catastrophe, Spectacle: Reality as 
Fantasy in Live Media'

Geoff King, Brunel University, '"Just Like a Movie?": 9-11 and Hollywood Spectacle'

Dean Lockwood, University of Lincoln, 'Teratology of the Spectacle'

Lunch, 1.15 -2.15

Session 2: Reality/TV, 2.15-4.00

Christine Fanthome, 'The Unrealities of Reality TV'

Amy West, University of Aukland, 'The Low-Tech Reality Effect and 'Visual Ordinariness'

Misha Kavka, University of Aukland, 'Reality Matters; or, How I Learned to love Reality TV'

Annette Hill, University of Westminster, 'Real TV; Audience Resonses to Factual Entertainment'

Tea/coffee

Session 3: Reality TV/Documentary, 4.30-6.00

Strand 1

Deborah Jermyn, Southampton Institute,'"It's the most dramatic thing you can have": 
CCTV and the spectacle of actuality in television crime appeal programming'

Leon Hunt, Brunel University, 'Hell-in-a-Cell and Other Stories: Violence and 
Authenticity in 'Hardcore' Wrestling'

Bernadette Flynn, Griffith University, Brisbane, 'Docobriocalage in the age of simulation'

Strand 2

Tanya Horeck, Anglia Polytechnic University,'Public Rape: Raw Deal: A Question of Consent'

Frances Bonner, University of Queensland, '"Looking Inside": Showing Operations on Medical Television'

Karen Scott, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford,'The Spectacle 
of "the Past": Contemporary documentary and the role of new technology'

Drinks/Food

SUNDAY 26 January

Coffee, 9-9.30

Session 4, 9.30-11.00

Strand 1: Emotions/Trauma

Michele Aaron, Brunel University, Spectacles of Death and the complicitous spectator
(title tbc)

Kathy Smith, London Metropolitan University, 'Reframing Fantasy: September 11 and the
Global Audience'

Pat Cook, Brunel University, 'Watching Telly: Emotion Studies and the Question of 
Moral Responsibility'

Strand 2

Hilary Harris, Griffith University, Brisbane, 'Military Humanitarianism: To spectacularize 
the military but not to militarise the spectacle'

Jon Kraszewski, Indiana University, 'Narratives and Spectacles of Race on MTV's Reality Show "The Real World"'

Julia Hallam, University of Liverpool, 'Split screen spectacles: engaging viewers in the 
multi-channel TV landscape'

Coffee

Session 5: Film, 11.30-1.15

Michele Pierson, University of Queensland, 'A Production Designer's Cinema: Authenticity 
and Allusion in Historical-Fantasy Film'

Lisa Purse, University of Reading, 'The New Spatial Dynamics of the Bullet-Time Effect'

Pat Brereton, Dublin City Universtiy, 'Representations of Historical, Ecological and 
Future Disasters - A case study of Spielberg's use of SFX'

Taek-Gwang Lee, University of Sheffield, 'The Logic of Computer-Generated Film'

Lunch, 1.15-2.15

Session 6: Film/Animation, 2.15-4.00

Strand 1

Julian Petley, Brunel, 'Real Life Death'

Peg Aloi, Emerson College, 'Beyond the Blair Witch: A New Horror Aesthetic?'

Mike Wayne, Brunel, 'Spectacles of Reification: Possession, Ghosts and Value Theory

Tanya Krzywinska, Brunel University, 'The Enigma of the Real: Authentic Sex in 
Contemporary "Legitimate" Cinema'

Strand 2

Seth Giddings, University of West of England, '"They must be simulated": Animation as 
Spectacular Realism'

Paul Ward, Brunel University, '"I was dreaming I was awake, but then I woke up and 
found myself asleep": Dreaming, Spectacle and Reality in Richard Linklater's Waking Life'

Martin Flanagan, Bolton Institute, 'Toy Stories: Technology, Space and Realism in Pixar Films'

Session 7, 4.30-6pm

Closing keynote and plenary discussion

Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology, 'New Media and the Remediation of Spectacle'



Geoff King
Film and TV Studies
Brunel University, UK
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