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Public Lecture


You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture by internationally renowned television scholar, Professor Amanda Lotz, titled  "Evolution or Revolution? Television in Transformation"


Abstract: Is television in the midst of typical change—evolution— or is something more profound occurring? This talk explores the change and continuity characteristic of contemporary television based on the disruptions introduced by digital distribution.

Amanda D. Lotz is Professor at the University of Michigan and Fellow at the Media Center at Peabody. She is the author of five books including Portals: A Treatise on Internet-Distributed Television and The Television Will Be Revolutionized, and co-author of Understanding Media Industries and Television Studies. Her new book, We Now Disrupt This Broadcast: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All, will be released in March 2018.

Lecture to be chaired by Associate Professor Belinda Smaill from Monash University

Date: Thursday, 24th August 2017

Time: 5:45pm (for 6pm start)

Place: Treasury Theatre, Lower Plaza, 1 McArthur St, East Melbourne


Sponsored by the Film and Screen Studies Program, the School of Media, Film and Journalism, and the Film, Media and Communications Graduate Research Program at Monash University



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Dr Kirsten Stevens

Deputy Festival Director
Melbourne Women in Film Festival
Teaching Associate
Film and Screen Studies

---New Publication: Stevens, Kirsten. (2016) Australian Film Festivals: Audience, Place and Exhibition Culture. Framing Film Festivals. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

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