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Hi Dr Serafini My name is Perelandra Beedles and I am a senior lecturer and programme leader on the Television Production Management degree at Edgehill university. As an ex television industry professional who now teaches undergraduates the art of putting together schedules and looking after crews, the practice of the working hours opt-out has long been a concern to me. Increasingly I have been looking at ways to deliver television production without the need to erode peoples health and well being.I am currently working on a paper around these ideas and wondered if you would be be interested in me presenting my ideas at your conference. Should we be moving to a feminisation of TV production schedules? The Gendered Practice Of The TV “Opt Out” Opting out of the government directive, regarding how many hours an employee can be asked to work, has been common practice in the broadcast industry for many years. Filming shoots are complex, demanding and expensive, populated by crews who pride themselves on the ability to keep going until the final scene is complete. Television Production Managers have long relied on staff ignoring the 48-hour rule, when drawing up filming plans. The opt out clause is often the only way ambitious shooting schedules can be achieved and viewed as a freedom from convention, but is this really the case? The almost macho ethos of staying “until the job is done” effectively ignores how impossible this masculine work ethic can be for women to subscribe to. By creating filming schedules which favour those with few caring responsibilities, are we effectively barring female workers from certain projects? Reinforcing a machismo culture of production? Should we be moving to a feminisation of TV production schedules? If you feel these ideas might be of interest to your conference attendees please let me know. Best Perelandra Beedles Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Television Production Management Office-Creative Edge Room CE214 Phone ex 6386 From: Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Serafini, Paula S. (Dr.) Sent: 18 January 2018 10:48 To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: CAMEo Annual Conference 12-14th September, 2018 Save the Date: CAMEo Annual Conference 12-14th September 2018, Leicester, UK. Care in the Media and Cultural Industries Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Bev Skeggs The media, arts and cultural industries present a positive image of good and fulfilling work whilst the artistic products of those industries are often imbued with moral and cultural value. Yet, we have become increasingly aware of the inequalities and injustices integral to these industries. These include the ways in which opportunities to participate in such work are unequally distributed, and how the material and immaterial rewards of doing so are unevenly spread, socially, as well as geographically, at national and global scales. Arts, cultural and media industry work has been further tarnished by recent and high profile revelations concerning the systemic abuses suffered by cultural workers from within powerful organisations which in turn must encourage us to reflect upon on the lasting legacies of the objects of this cultural work. Far from being ‘good’, work in culture, media and the arts increasingly appears as damaging, and divested of care or concern for others. The second interdisciplinary CAMEo conference therefore focuses on the issues of care, concerns and ethics in the cultural and media economies. It foregrounds four key questions: * What are the sources of the different inequalities, injustices and harms in cultural and media industries? * In what ways do cultural objects and texts work to intervene in, challenge or reproduce social injustices, abuses and harms? * How can the emotions and intimacies in cultural work be harnessed to enhance the debates and frameworks for improving social justice across the cultural and media industries? * What forms of community, social connection or organizing might offer spaces of consolation, relief and opposition to damaging work? We hope you want to join us in exploring these issues, look out for more information about speakers and registration very soon. With best wishes from the CAMEo conference committee. 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