‘Journeys Across Media’
JAM 2004 at the University of Reading
Friday 23 April 2004

The ‘Journeys Across Media’ (JAM) forum 2004 is an informal one-day
conference, organised by and for postgraduate students working on topics
in film, theatre, television and ‘new media’ studies. The focus of this
year’s forum is the significance of medium specificity and hybridity
within Film, Theatre, Television and New Media Studies.

The conference fee will be £15, including refreshments and lunch. The day
is expected to run from 10am – 5pm.  The registration form is available on
the JAM 2004 website at www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/Research/jam2004.htm.

The conference organisers, Sara Steinke and Simone Knox, can be contacted
by email at [log in to unmask]

Speakers include:

Jodie Allinson (University of Glamorgan), 'Cross-media audience
experience: objectivity through subjectivity'
Matt Barber (University of Exeter), 'Actors in the Whitehouse: American
politics in film and television'
Mark Broughton (Birkbeck College, London), 'Louis Mazzini’s Postcard: the
genius loci of Kind Hearts and Coronets'
Ivana Broziã (University of Reading) 'A Case for Intermediality: Theatre
of Sheila Yeger'
Elizabeth Coulter-Smith (University of Central England), 'Exploring
the ‘Whitespace’ in the Scholarly Hypertext Thesis'
Yuna de Lannoy (Birkbeck College, London), 'Noh and Shakespeare in
Kurosawa’s films'
Jiska Marita Engelbert (University of Wales), 'Viewers’ code competence in
ideological decoding of television news.  The construction of the viewer’s
role within the text.'
Anthony Enns (University of Iowa), 'The horror of media'
Kirsty Fairclough (University of Salford), 'Changing Tastes: Lifestyle
Television and the Politics of Transformation'
Dave Hipple (University of Reading), 'Star Trek the Motion Book Series
Phase II:  the text that conquered the world by accident'
Pietari Kääpä (University of East Anglia), 'Transcending
untranslatability: Aki Kaurismäki in a transnational context'
Tim Langer, 'Significance of medium specificity and hybridity – Aspects of
enunciation in The Lord of the Rings'
Kirsten Law (Sheffield Hallam University), 'Virginia Woolf and film
adaptation: the issue of a gendered madness in Mrs Dalloway'
Gareth Longstaff (University of East London), 'Online personal adverts and
gay male interactive desire'
Katerina Loukopoulo (Birkbeck College, London), 'The Arts Council and
Channel 4 co-production of films and TV programmes on the visual arts'
Normah Mustaffa (University of Cardiff), 'Recall of Online News: A
quantitative study of web page design'
Beverly Newman (UWE), 'Why is cheating in computer games a key site?'
Jenna Pei-Suin Ng (University College, London), 'Sifting Gold from chaff:
deconstructing the hybridity of the docudrama'
Christos Prossylis (Middlesex University), 'Directing the ancient Greek
drama using high-tech modern techniques: a new metalanguage expression'
Roopa Saini (Goldsmiths College, London), 'Crossing Boundaries: The
cultural audiences of Indian diasporic film'
Aparna Sharma (University of Glamorgan), 'Navigating through the hybrid'
Nicola Shaw (Manchester Metropolitan University), 'Drama/Documentary:
direct address and conventions of authentication on British television'
Elina Traiforou (University of Reading), 'Amator: the cinematic text as a
form of ontological, social and ethical inquiry'
Mark Woods (University of Glamorgan), 'Some conclusions on the current
state of research on the question of “National Cinemas”'