THE POLITICS OF TELEVISION SPACE
A one-day Symposium at the University of Leicester
SEE BELOW FOR BOOKING FORM AND CONTACT DETAILS FOR ENQUIRIES
Friday 8 April 2011: 10.00 am – 6.00 pm
The first symposium arising from the AHRC-funded project ‘Spaces of Television’ will focus on the theme of ‘The Politics of Television Space’
Keynote speaker: Peter Hutchings (author of Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film): ‘Dangerous Spaces: Studios, video and the 1970s psychological thriller’.
Guest speakers Howard Schuman (writer of Rock Follies and many single plays) and Piers Haggard (director of Pennies from Heaven and The Quatermass Conclusion) will discuss their experiences of working in a variety of production contexts and environments.
Papers:
Matthew Bailey: ‘Corridors of power: the depiction of the House of Commons in television drama’
Jonathan Bignell: ‘Modernity and spatial politics: Gerry Anderson’s puppet science fictions’
E. Anna Claydon: ‘The Detective, the Criminal and the Countryside: the place of rural Britain in the criminal landscape’
David Dunn: ‘A Tangle with the Isles: Contested spaces in Scottish Television’s Gaelic soap opera Machair
Richard Hewett: ‘Survivors: modes of production and acting style’
Rachael Keene: ‘Breaking up the Sameness’: Channel 4’s Eleventh Hour and the scheduling of independent film and video on British television’
Douglas McNaughton: ‘Imperial Spaces: I, Claudius and constructing the Eternal City at White City’
Laura Mayne: ‘A sense of time and place’: examining the regional aesthetic in the work of Channel 4’s first Commissioning Editor for Fiction, David Rose’
Andrew O’Day: ‘“I, Spy, with my little eye”: Surveillance and space in Doctor Who’
Leah Panos: ‘Humanising politics: dramatic space in Trevor Griffiths' studio plays’
Sally Shaw: ‘Light entertainment’ as contested socio-political space: audience and institutional responses to Love Thy Neighbour (1972-76)’
Sheryl Wilson and Simon Cross: In Two Minds and the politics of madness
Enquiries should be directed to James Chapman: [log in to unmask]
‘Spaces of Television’ is an AHRC-funded research project led by the University of Reading in collaboration with the University of Leicester and the University of Glamorgan.
Further details of the project can be found at: http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/research/Spacesoftelevision.aspx
‘POLITICS OF TELEVISION SPACE’ BOOKING FORM
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FEE: £20 (£15 speakers, students, unwaged)
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Ms Gemma Mayo
Department of History of Art and Film
University of Leicester
Leicester
LE1 7RH
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