Dear all,

There are still some places left at the 'Cultures of British Television
Drama' conference, University of Reading, September 13-15 2005. Please
book soon to ensure your place at the conference. I have pasted a
conference outline and booking form below.

Best wishes,

Helen Wheatley

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Cultures of British Television Drama, 13-15 September, 2005

Organised by the Centre for Television Drama Studies at the University of
Reading, under the auspices of the AHRB-funded research project, ‘Cultures
of British Television Drama, 1960-82’, this conference will focus on
television drama in Britain, from the pre-war period of BBC broadcasting
to the present day. The conference aims to give a broad platform to new
research into British television drama from a range of textual,
institutional, and cultural perspectives, and to reopen debates around the
past, present and future of television drama in Britain.

Keynote speakers:

Prof. John Caughie (University of Glasgow)

Prof. Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow)

Dr. Jason Jacobs (Griffith University)

Prof. Robin Nelson (Manchester Metropolitan University)

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Conference panels:

Opening keynote panel - ‘Cultures of British Television Drama: Histories’ -
 Jason Jacobs & John Caughie

Closing keynote panel – ‘Cultures of British Television Drama: Drama
Today’ - Robin Nelson & Christine Geraghty


Plenary 1 – Industrial change and TV drama aesthetics

John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London): The cost of TV drama
and production values

Mark Fremaux (Edge Hill College): The Interaction between the film and
television industries and the use of film for television production

Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool): Equal Opportunists: The rise of
the writer producer in the 1990s


Plenary 2 – New approaches to social realism

Karen Shepherdson (Canterbury Christ Church University College):
Dramatisation and Appropriation of the Demotic Voice.

Stephen Lacey (Manchester Metropolitan University/University of Glamorgan)

Lez Cooke (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘New Wave’ in British
Television Drama


Panel 1a: Genres of fantasy, 1960-82

Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading): Transatlantic Style: Television
and Mise-en-Scene in Filmed UK Action Series

Helen Wheatley (University of Reading/University of Warwick): The house
that bled to death: domestic horror in the 1970s

Nickianne Moody (Liverpool John Moores University): Quatermass and the
Representation of Social Malaise for a Popular Audience


Panel 1b: Questions of Authorship

Andy Willis (University of Salford): Beyond Days of Hope: Jim Allen and
the history of television drama

Kara McKechnie (University of Leeds): Hopeless in Halifax, helpless in
Hartlepool: The Writer in Disguise - Alan Bennett’s and Stephen Frears’
collaborations for LWT

Peter Billingham (University of Portsmouth): ‘I ‘ad Popular Audience
Ratings in the back of my cab, yer know!’ Reflections upon the issues of
concepts of the ‘Popular’, the ‘Serious’ and the ‘Single Author’ in
British television drama in the context of Tony Marchant’s Take Me Home.
(BBC 1, 1989)


Panel 2a: Producing children’s drama

Karen Lury (University of Glasgow): Shoebox Zoo (BBC Scotland/Shoebox
Production Co-production, 2004-)

Val Williamson (Edge Hill College): Starting from Scratch: Watching The
Tribe evolve with Channel Five, 1999-2003


Panel 2b: Feminist approaches to the medical drama

Sara Steinke (University of Reading): How I learned to stop worrying and
love television medical drama: online fandom and television medical drama

Christina Adamou (University of Reading): No Angels, no heroes:
Undermining gender stereotypes


Panel 3a: Experimental television drama

Jamie Sexton (University of Wales, Aberyswyth): Experimental Television,
Talking to a Stranger and Multi-Perspective Narration

Paul Long (University of Central England): ‘A radical departure for the
BBC’? ‘Gangsters’: The meanings, possibilities and memory of regional drama

Paweù Schreiber (Kazimierz Wielki Academy Bydgoszcz, Poland): The Truth
Beyond Words and Pictures?: Historical representation in Tom Stoppard’s
Squaring the Circle


Panel 3b: Representing cultural identity

Darrell Newton (Salisbury University, MD): Undue Drama: British Television
and the Taboo of Sexual Miscegenation

Andrew Hill (University of Ulster, Coleraine): Northern Ireland and Pre-
Troubles Television Drama

Marcus Free (University of Limerick): The Problematics of Space, Class,
and Gender in Roddy Doyle’s Writing for Television and Film


Panel 4a - Shameless and the new social realism

Glen Creeber (University of Wales, Aberystwyth): ‘The Truth is Out There –
Not!’: morality, politics and contemporary social realism in Shameless
(C4, 2004-).

Helen Piper (University of Bristol): ‘Figurability’ and the expression of
class-hybridity in recent British television drama

Amy McNulty (University of Salford): Postmodern style, realist intent: The
internal contradictions of Shameless


Panel 4b - British Science Fiction Television

James Chapman (Open University): Quatermass and the origins of British
television science fiction

John R. Cook (Glasgow Caledonian University): 'The Age of Aquarius: Utopia
and Anti-Utopia in British Science Fiction Television of the Late 1960s
and Early 1970s'

Peter Wright (Edge Hill College of Higher Education): Echoes of
Discontent: Conservative Politics and Sapphire and Steel


'Cultures of British Television Drama: 1960-82' is directed by Dr Jonathan
Bignell (University of Reading), Stephen Lacey (Manchester Metropolitan
University), and Prof John Ellis (Royal Holloway, University of London)
and combines analytical and archival study of British television drama
programming between these years. The project focuses in particular on
popular generic television drama in the period (based on postdoctoral
research undertaken by Dr. Helen Wheatley at the University of Reading),
institutional cultures and practices, and the regional drama output of
Granada and BBC Pebble Mill (through doctoral research conducted by Lez
Cooke at Manchester Metropolitan University). This conference is the
culmination of a series of symposia organised in conjunction with the
Centre for Television Drama Studies at Reading and the Department of
Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University.



BOOKING FORM - Please print and return


Please return this booking form to Leah Panos, Department of Film, Theatre
and Television, Bulmershe Campus, University of Reading, Reading, RG6 1HY.
Forms and enquiries can also be emailed to: [log in to unmask]

The conference will be held at the Department of Film, Theatre and
Television, at the Bulmershe Campus of the University of Reading on 13th-
15th September 2005.

Registration will take place in the foyer outside the Bob Kaley Studio on
the Bulmershe Campus between 2.30 and 3.30 p.m. Full details of how to get
to the Bulmershe campus by bus, rail, road, taxi and air are given on the
University of Reading website, along with maps.
En-suite accommodation for the duration of the conference may be booked
using this form, but there are also plenty of guesthouses and hotels
offering bed & breakfast near the University.  Full details of both types
of accommodation are given on the University website.
University of Reading website home page http://www.rdg.ac.uk/

Visitors Information: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/about/visitors.htm

Bulmershe Campus Map: http://www.reading.ac.uk/Maps/bulmershe/index.htm

Accommodation: http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/accommodation/

If you would like to attend the conference, please complete and return the
booking form below by 12th August 2005 to Leah Panos, Department of Film,
Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Bulmershe Court, Reading, RG6
1HY - Email: [log in to unmask]



Name

Institution

Postal address





Postcode

Telephone number

E-mail address


Please be sure to include an email address so that directions/instructions
and an up-to-date timetable can be sent to you in September.


Please let us know if you have any special dietary requirements (e.g.
vegetarian, vegan, food allergies):

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Presenters:

Please let us know about your technology requirements below (e.g. VCR,
DVD, OHP, Powerpoint, etc.). Please note that papers should be deliverable
in 20 minutes, including any audio-visual illustration.

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Conference Costs:

Please circle the option you have chosen:

· Conference fee only (entitles delegate to attend conference, drinks,
dinner on the 13th and lunch on the 14th and 15th)      £85 (waged)/£65
(student/unwaged)


· Conference fee (as above) with conference dinner and drinks on the
14th    £110 (waged)/£90 (student/unwaged)


· Conference fee (as above) with bed and breakfast on the 13th and 14th
£165 (waged)/£140 (student/unwaged)


· Conference fee (as above) with conference dinner on the 14th and bed and
breakfast on the 13th and 14th  £190 (waged)/£165 (student/unwaged)

Payment by cheque is preferred, but you may also pay by credit card.


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Please note that receipts for payment will be emailed to you at the
address given overleaf. Please let us know if you need a receipt by post
instead. Unfortunately, refunds cannot be given once payment has been
processed.

Some limited parking is available for the conference.  If you require a
parking space please indicate this below and we will reserve a space for
you.



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Please direct all booking enquiries to Leah Panos ([log in to unmask]).
Other enquiries about the conference can be directed towards the
conference organiser, Dr. Helen Wheatley ([log in to unmask])