Reality TV: contexts, debates, futures
Preliminary announcement of event – further details to follow.
Day event hosted by the School of Humanities and Cultural Studies to
celebrate the launch of the Centre for Research in Audiovisual Culture
(CFRAC) organised by Anita Biressi, Deborah Jermyn and Heather Nunn.
Date: Saturday 22nd May 9am-5pm
Venue: Chapman Hall, Southlands College, Roehampton University of Surrey
Fee: £15 (£5 unwaged/student rate) fee includes refreshments and lunch
Includes book launch for Understanding Reality Television (Routledge: 2004)
edited by Su Holmes and Deborah Jermyn.
Speakers include:
Jonathan Bignell (Reading)
Title: tba
Anita Biressi (Roehampton)
Title: Feel My Pain: the Trauma of Reality TV
Annette Hill (Westminster)
Title: Television Audiences and Factual Programming
Su Holmes (Southampton Institute)
Title: ‘It’s a Jungle Out There…’: Conceptualising Fame in Celebrity
Reality TV
Janet Jones (Aberystwyth)
Title: How Big Brother works to dispel the ‘mediation anxiety’
Heather Nunn (Roehampton)
Title: Reality TV and the Therapy Playroom
Estella Tincknell (UWE)
Title: tba
Brian Winston (Lincoln)
Title: The Paradox of Reality TV
Register by email to: [log in to unmask] and either pay on the day
or post cheques to Dr Anita Biressi, Roehampton University of Surrey,
School of Humanities and Cultural Studies, Digby Stuart College, Howard Rm.
101, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PH. Cheques payable to ‘University of
Surrey Roehampton’.
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