Research Seminar this Monday at the University of Sunderland:
'Things that Go Punk in the Night - Popular Culture and the Enfield Poltergeist' by Mark Duffett
In November 1977, a BBC TV journalist interviewed two girls from a working class, single parent family that claimed their London home was haunted. The Enfield poltergeist story caught the public imagination. Almost forty years later it was retold in James Wan’s blockbuster, The Conjuring 2 (2016). In this talk, the original incident is interpreted as a media performance in which the teenagers concerned exploited public interest by levering widespread assumptions emerging from popular culture. The original story is examined to consider how the girls played with contemporary anxieties about youth, class and gender. The second part of the talk will show how Wan’s fictional portrayal reformulated the story for a mainstream, 2016, American audience, in part by using shared, inter-textual reference points. The presentation aims to reconsider the value of widespread assumptions that 1970s pop audiences were passive consumers.
Dr Mark Duffett is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Chester. He is currently co-writing a book for Bloomsbury with Dr Jon Hackett that examines links between popular music, masculinity and monstrosity.
The talk will be held on Monday 20th February 2017 at the University of Sunderland’s Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies seminar series, hosted by Professor Clarissa Smith. It will begin at 17.30 in room MC233 at the David Puttnam Media Centre, and finish at 19.00. All welcome.
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