How do visual media and performance grab our attention? What role does
the body play in our engagement with media texts? How does our perception
of media texts, forms and institutions influence our readings and
interpretations?
SEE – HEAR – FEEL: Perception and Engagement in Visual Media & Performance
Department of Film, Theatre & Television, University of Reading, Friday 20
April 2007.
Guest Speaker – Yoram Allom, Editorial Director Wallflower Press – ‘How to
get published’
Papers invited from postgraduates researching film, theatre, television
and new media. Proposals deadline - Friday 26 January 2007.
Conference Fee – 7.50
Some travel bursaries are available.
Topics for discussion include but are not limited to:
- Spectatorship
- Point of view
- Engagement
- Interactivity
- Medium Specificity
- Interdisciplinary approaches
- Cross-media work
- The influence of theory
- Creating, translating and adapting
Further information on our website – www.rdg.ac.uk/fd/research/jam.htm -
including expanded discussion topics.
Call for papers deadline: Friday 26 January 2007
Please send a 250-word proposal, including a biographical note, to Eirini
Nedelkopoulou, Ceri Hovland and Lucy Fife at [log in to unmask] Papers
should be no more than 20 minutes.
Journeys Across Media (JAM) is an annual one-day interdisciplinary
conference organised by and for postgraduate students. It provides a
discussion forum for current and developing research in film, theatre,
television and 'new media'. Previous delegates have welcomed the
opportunity to gain experience of presenting their work, at different
stages of development, in the active, friendly and supportive research
environment of Film, Theatre & Television at the University of Reading.
Non-presenting delegates are also very welcome.
The Fifth annual postgraduate Journeys Across Media Conference is
supported by the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments
(SCUDD) and the Graduate School in Arts and Humanities, University of
Reading.
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