Colleagues are invited to Birmingham City University's Centre for Media & Cultural Research Seminar. Held bi-monthly the next seminar takes place on Wednesday, 5 March 2014 from 14:00 to 16:00 (GMT)
All seminars are free to attend, please register via our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-need-to-talk-about-subsidy-television-and-the-uk-film-industry-registration-10718729007
Presentation/Title: We Need To Talk About Subsidy: Television and the UK Film Industry.
Presenters: Dr Ieuan Franklin - Research Assistant, Channel 4 and British Film Culture Project and Dr Justin Smith - Reader in British Culture, University of Portsmouth.
In 2012 Chris Smith’s Film Policy Review recognized and praised the role played by Public Service Broadcasters (Channel 4 and the BBC) in supporting British film production. Alongside Lottery Funding (now distributed by the BFI), this form of investment subsidy finances (or part-finances) half the films produced annually in the UK. This paper asks whether, as two sides of this subsidy triangle, the distinctive identities of Film4 and BBC Films have been lost.
On the one hand, both the PSBs’ film departments invest heavily in development; on the other hand, both pursue the holy grail of international breakout success. Is a subsidised UK film culture (like those of other European countries) really the lifeblood which sustains indigenous film art? Or does television’s involvement in film restrict the definition of independence in a domestic market where British film still struggles to find adequate distribution. In addressing these questions, the paper will consider how the history and development of Film4 specifically, is instructive in exploring the relationship between aesthetics, economics, audience and risk in British film culture.
Presentation/Title: Shakin' All Over: Popular Music and Disability.
Presenter: Professor George McKay, University of Salford.
Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, it’s surprising that until now there has never been a single monograph study covering the important intersection of popular music and disability. George McKay’s Shakin’ All Over is a cross-disciplinary examination of the ways in which popular music performers have addressed disability: in their songs, in their live performances, and in various media presentations.
By looking closely into the work of artists such as Johnny Rotten, Neil Young, Johnnie Ray, Ian Dury, Teddy Pendergrass, Curtis Mayfield, and Joni Mitchell, McKay investigates such questions as how popular music works to obscure and accommodate the presence of people with disabilities in its cultural practice. He also examines how popular musicians have articulated the experiences of disability (or sought to pass), or have used their cultural arena for disability advocacy purposes.
Dat/Time: Wednesday, 5 March 2014 from 14:00 to 16:00 (GMT)
Venue: Birmingham City University: Parkside Campus, Rm 432, Millennium Point, Curzon St, Birmingham, B4
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