Booking has now opened for the three-day, international ‘Spaces of Television’ Conference, held between 18-20 September 2013 in the Minghella Building at the University of Reading - http://www.store.reading.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=2&modid=2&deptid=16&catid=32&prodid=264
The conference will include four keynote presentations:
John Ellis (Royal Holloway): Spaces of Television
Julia Hallam (Liverpool): Liverpool in television drama: exploring spatial praxis
Michelle Hilmes (Wisconsin-Madison): Co-Production and Transnational Heritage: The Imagined Space of Masterpiece Theatre
John Wyver (Westminster): To get to the heart of it: spaces and strategies for television adaptations of staged Shakespeare
And will also include presentations from Phil Redmond (Creator of Grange Hill, Brookside and Hollyoaks) and Cameron Roach (Executive Producer, Waterloo Road, subject to work commitments), a panel investigating television archives and their access including Tony Ageh (Head of Archive Development, BBC), Tim Beddows (Network DVD), Dick Fiddy (BFI) and others, and interviews with veteran television drama practitioners to be announced.
Conference papers are:
Mark Aldridge (Southampton Solent): Studio Action: Adam Adamant Lives!
Daniel Ashton (Bath Spa): “I’d advise anyone contemplating this to find a separate wing to live in”: Pride, Prejudice and Spaces of Cultural Heritage
Ahmet Atay (Worcester): The Usage of Space in ITC’s Spy and Action/Adventure Dramas
Howard Berry (Hertfordshire): ‘Filmed Across the World, Made at Elstree’: How television made at Elstree in the 1960s and 70s brought a global experience to the small screen
Steve Blandford (Glamorgan): Jimmy McGovern’s negotiation of television spaces and the Hillsborough Stadium tragedy.
Sarah Cardwell (Kent): Frames and aspects: three adaptations of Persuasion
Lez Cooke (Royal Holloway): The Unknown Spaces of Television Archives: Researching the History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK
Matt Crowder (Royal Holloway): That Was The Week That Was and the space of entertainment
David Dunn: From Outer Space to the Outer Hebrides: Soap Opera Productions on the Cusp
Laura Earley (Glasgow Caledonian/ Gloucestershire) Championing the Studio: The Relationship Between Space and Style in Dennis Potter’s Non-naturalistic Television Drama
Carolyn Ellam (UEA): Critical Interpretations and Applied Cultural Meanings of Fantasy Spaces in The Prisoner (1967 – 68)
Georges Fournier (Jean Moulin): Spaces of Margaret Thatcher
Joanne Garde-Hansen (Gloucestershire): Dennis Potter’s Extras: Below the Line Production Memories in the Forest of Dean
Elinor Groom (Nottingham): Adventures on a Boat: Southerner and Southern Television’s Freewheelers
Nick Hall (Wiltshire): “The big city where the livin’ ain’t easy”: The urban ‘outside’ in Robert Altman’s Bus Stop episodes
Valerie Hazette (Stirling): From TV5 to TV5 Monde: A Travel in Space and History
Richard Hewett (Royal Holloway): Spaces of Preparation: The Acton ‘Hilton’ and Changing Patterns of Television Drama Rehearsal
Andrew Ireland (Bournemouth): Studio-bound – What does this mean in practice?: A Re-enactment Experiment with the British TV Series Doctor Who
Mary Irwin (Warwick): Noblesse Oblige – Contesting Place, Class and Culture in To the Manor Born
Jason Jacobs (Queensland): The co-production of space and character in The Third Man
Richard Kilborn (Stirling) & Lothar Mikos (Potsdam): Crossing Borders: New television homes for British TV sitcoms
Felix Kirschbacher (Mannheim): The Significance of Lumber. Interiors and Exteriors of Evil in Twin Peaks
Iris Kleinecke-Bates (Hull): Sci-fi without technology: The Tripods (1984-5) as medieval telefantasy
Simone Knox (Reading): Site and Style in Contemporary British Drama: London’s Chinatown in Sherlock
Stephen Lacey (Glamorgan): Studios and stages: actors, acting and the use of space in the BBC’s Performance series
Ben Lamb (Glamorgan): Spaces of performance: Armchair Theatre and the role of the set designer
Laura Mayne (Portsmouth): Televisual film, cinematic drama: space, technology and aesthetics in early Films on Four
Kevin McMahon (Southern Claifornia Institute of Architecture): Rooms against chronicles – The house in Edwardian TV
Douglas McNaughton (Queen Margaret): Consuming Places: Hardy’s Wessex, the BBC, and OB video
Darrell Newton (Salisbury): Subjectivity and the Spatial: The Usages of Media in Man from the Sun (BBC, 1958)
James Oldham (Warwick): Spaces of ‘Realist’ Spy Dramas on British Television, 1978-82
Leah Panos (Reading): Armchair Theatre: The Folk Singer
Frances Pheasant-Kelly (Wolverhampton): Bouquet of Barbed Wire Then and Now: Space, Aesthetics and Production
Martin Phillips (Leicester): Productions of rurality in the early 1990s: the roles of rural and national spaces in the production of rural television dramas.
Helen Piper (Bristol): Bolt holes and lock-ups: Anxious spaces and everyday places in early 1990s detective dramas
David Rolinson (Stirling): What Was Ahead: studio as gateway in Doctor Who – ‘Warriors’ Gate’ (1981)
Max Sexton (Birkbeck): Urban Imaginaries and Euston Films
Sally Shaw (Portsmouth): “I actually shot it on location at the Knightsbridge Spaghetti House” – depicting black politicised spaces in A Hole in Babylon (Ové, 1979 BBC).
Billy Smart (Reading): Within These Walls: The particular strengths and qualities of studio drama
Yuhong Sun & Yanhong Yang (Communication University of China): Constructions of Drama Spaces and Cultural Spaces
Jan Teurlings (Amsterdam): The television studio as a peculiar panopticon: Reflections on studio space and its non-human actants
Gamze Toylan (Westminster): ‘90s TV Production: Filming a BBC in-house production in Yorkshire Television Studios
Faye Woods (Reading): Uncanny Thamesmead: The telefantasy social realist spaces of Misfits
Amanda Wrigley (Westminster): Space and Place in Joan Kemp-Welch’s Television Productions of Theatre Plays
James Zborowski (Hull): Shut up, I’m trying to have a read: Freetime, hobbies and the home in Coronation Street (1960)
Booking details can be found here -
http://www.store.reading.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=2&modid=2&deptid=16&catid=32&prodid=264
Conference queries should be sent to Billy Smart at [log in to unmask] Do let him know if you have problems with booking.
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