Apologies for cross-posting.

 

 

 

Dear list members,

 

Please find below the schedule for the forthcoming one-day symposium ‘The Transnational Viewing Experience’ at the University of Reading, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, on Friday, 7 September 2007.

 

The symposium is a one-day event that will give researchers the opportunity to debate how foreign television dramas have been incorporated into different national contexts and how viewers make sense of foreign product.

 

Further information (including the registration form and, in the near future, abstracts of the papers) can be found at:

 

http://www.reading.ac.uk/fd/research/transnationalviewing.htm

 

If you have any questions regarding the event, I’d be happy to hear from you.

 

All the best,

 

Elke Weissmann

 

Postdoctoral Researcher

British Television Drama and US Imports, 1970-2000

http://www.reading.ac.uk/fd/Research/BritishandUSdrama.htm

University of Reading,

Film, Theatre and Television

Bulmershe Court

Woodlands Avenue

Reading

RG6 1HY

Berkshire

England

0044-118-378-5894

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Schedule for Symposium ‘The Transnational Viewing Experience’

(7 September 2007)

University of Reading

Department of Film, Theatre and Television

Bulmershe Court

 

9.00-9.30am        Registration

 

 

9.30-10.30am      Keynote Speaker 1: Prof. Jeanette Steemers

 

Pofessor Steemers will present a paper that updates her seminal book Selling Television (2004) which examines how television programmes are marketed and sold to foreign television cultures.

 

 

10.30-11.00am  Coffee

 

 

11.00-12.30pm    Panel 1. US Television Drama and Foreign Broadcasters

 

a)       Faye Woods, ‘US Teen Drama on T4’

b)      Rakesh Kaushal, ‘US Drama on British Television: A Comparative Analysis of 1984 and 2004’

c)       Ken Murphy, ‘Dramatising the Republic: American political drama, RTE and Irish public life’

 

 

12.30-1.45pm    Lunch

 

 

1.45-3.45pm      Panel 2. The Transnational Context of TV Drama

                       

a)       Jonathan Stubbs, ‘Repackaging Gulliver’s Travels’

b)      Alison Peirse, ‘Assimilating Horror Television’

c)       Simone Knox, ‘The Standard by which other Programming Should be Measured’

d)      Paul Kerr, ‘Hill Street Blues to Holby Blue’

 

 

3.45-4.15pm      Coffee

 

 

4.15-5.15pm      Keynote Speaker 2: Dr Marie Gillespie

 

Marie Gillespie will reflect on her groundbreaking book Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change (1995) and examine how audiences make use of television programmes and advertising that reflects their particular cultural needs.

 

 

5.15-6.00pm Drinks/ End of Conference