The Department of Film, Theatre & Television of the University of Reading is pleased to announce the forthcoming Research Seminar.
All welcome, no booking is required.
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The Studio Space, Minghella Building, Whiteknights Campus
RG6 6BT
Thursday, 23rd October, 4pm
Dr Simone Knox (University of Reading)
‘Representations of British-Chinese Identities in British Television Drama: Methodologies, Histories, Aesthetics’
This paper is concerned with issues of representation, identity, difference and otherness in relation to British television drama. Important research has been undertaken here, usually focused on the representation of African-Caribbean and South Asian identities. Little scholarly attention has been paid to the representation of British-Chinese identities in British drama. This is very likely partly because of the (perceived) traditional absence of such representations – The Chinese Detective (1981-1982) is still to this day the only British primetime series to feature a British-Chinese lead character.
This paper will use two different methodologies to begin to unpick the representations of British-Chinese identities in British television drama:
1. In the first half, the paper will use a historical/historiographical approach that maps out some of the dominant tendencies and patterns in representations of British-Chinese identities. Here, the paper will discuss the findings of the research database ‘British-Chinese actors in British television drama, 1945-2015’, a work-in-progress that forms part of a larger on-going research project.
2. In the second half, the paper will use close analysis to explore some of the ways in which British-Chinese identity has been rendered spatially within British television drama. Here, the case study will be the re-presentation of contemporary London’s Chinatown in BBC1 drama Sherlock, and how the text is informed by broader socio-cultural and specifically televisual/cinematic discourses on Chinatown and London.
With the British-Chinese community traditionally referred to as a silent or hidden minority – despite it constituting one of the UK’s largest and fastest growing minority ethnic group – this paper proposes that the time has come for multi-methodological scholarship to pull British-Chinese representations into the field of critical vision and open them up for more sustained debate.
Biographical note
Dr Simone Knox is Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of
Reading, UK. Her main research interests lie in the analysis of television
and film, especially aesthetics and medium specificity (including convergence culture), the transnationalisation of film and television (particularly audio-visual translation, such as dubbing and subtitling), and representations of the body. She has published in journals including the Journal of Popular Film and Television, Critical Studies in Television, Film Criticism and the New Review of Film and Television Studies. She is ECREA editor for Critical Studies in Television.
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