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> From: Paul McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 18 March 2005 14:42:50 GMT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Symposium 'Tabloid Culture' - Centre for Research in Film and
> Audiovisual Cultures, Roehampton University
> Reply-To: Paul McDonald <[log in to unmask]>
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> TABLOID CULTURE AND MEDIA SPECTACLE
> 2nd Annual Symposium
> Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures
> Roehampton University
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> The phrase tabloid culture refers not only to traditional genres
> such as
> the tabloid press but also to more unstable and evolving generic
> formations that draw on discourses and practices which were once
> confined
> to tabloid journalism and related genres but are now diffused into
> media
> culture in general.
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> 'Tabloid Culture and Media Spectacle' is the second annual symposium
> organised by the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures
> at
> Roehampton University, London. The event will explore the evolution,
> parameters and new directions of tabloid culture in order to think
> through
> its cultural and political implications addressing issues including
> politics and the popular, celebrity culture, media spectacle, tabloid
> news, journalism and factual programming.
>
> Date: Saturday 21st May 2005 9.00am - 5.00pm
> Fee: £12 or £6 for students (includes refreshments and lunch)
> Venue: Chapman Hall, Southlands College, Roehampton University,
> Roehampton Lane, London
>
> Speakers:
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> Professor Karin Becker (Stockholm University and Linkφping University)
> Title: 'Visual Vernaculars and the News'
>
> Professor Clive Bloom (Middlesex University)
> Title: 'From Jordan to Babylon'
>
> Professor Colin Sparks (Westminster University)
> Tile: 'Popular Journalism and Tabloid Journalism: An Historical Sketch'
>
> Dr Martin Conboy (Sheffield University)
> Title: 'The Popular Tabloids and History'
>
> Dr Nick Couldry (London School of Economics)
> Title: 'Celebrity Excess and "Ordinary Reality": Ritual/isation and the
> Construction of Tabloid Culture'
>
> Dr Jo Littler (Middlesex University)
> Title: 'Celebrity CEOs and the Cultural Economy of Tabloid Intimacy'
>
> Dr Henrik Φrnebring (Roehampton University)
> Title: 'Sexuality, Spectacle and the 19th Century Roots of Tabloid
> Culture'
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> Sofia Johansson (University of Westminster)
> Title: 'Tabloids from an Audience Perspective: Experiences of "" and
> the "Daily Mirror"'
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> Mascha Brichta (University of Westminster)
> Title: 'Tabloid Readers in Germany and Great Britain'
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> The event includes a book launch for 'Reality TV: Realism and
> Revelation'
> by H. Nunn and A. Biressi kindly sponsored by Wallflower Press.
>
> Organisers: Henrik Φrnebring, Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi
> Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures
> School of Arts
> Roehampton University
> Roehampton Lane
> London SW15 5PH, UK
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> Enquiries: [log in to unmask]
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> REGISTRATION
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> To register, please complete the details below and return no later than
> May 6:
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> EITHER by email to - [log in to unmask]
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> Dr Henrik Φrnebring
> School of Arts
> Roehampton University
> Roehampton Lane
> London SW15 5PH, UK.
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> As further communications about the symposium will be sent via email,
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> Payment for the symposium will be collected on the day. Please bring
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