Keeping it Real: Narratives of Ordinary and Extraordinary People Across Media
Friday 3 September 2010
The Executive Business Centre
Bournemouth University
89 Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth, BH8 8EB
The Narrative Research Group based in the Media School at Bournemouth University is hosting an interdisciplinary one-day symposium that will examine the representation of real people across media. Invited speakers include professionals, practitioners and scholars working with stories about real people in journalism, literature, visual media, online spaces and popular culture. It is hoped that the symposium will provide a forum to bring together those interested in the intersections between narrative theory and media/cultural studies. Please see the attached draft programme for further details.
This event is free to attend, and coffee and lunch will be provided on the day. However, as spaces are limited, you will need to register in advance by contacting the convenors, Bronwen Thomas ([log in to unmask]) and Julia Round ([log in to unmask]) before Wednesday 25 August.
DRAFT PROGRAMME - KEEPING IT REAL
9.30 Registration, Coffee and Welcome
10-11 Panel 1: Everyday/Extraordinary People Online
Sue Thomas (De Montfort) - Storying Cyberspace: metaphors of travel and terrain online.
Ruth Page (Leicester) Celebrity stories told on Twitter.
11-12 Panel 2: Past and Present
Hilary Dannenberg (Trier) Counter-Narratives of Empire: the Representation of Key Black Britons in Contemporary Television Texts.
Roger Sabin (St Martins) Narrating 'real lives' in a Victorian comic: Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday.
12-1.30 Lunch. Exhibition of work by members of NRG and workshop with Rosie Cullen.
1.30 -2.30 Panel 3: Real People, Current Affairs
Marina Lambrou (Kingston) Narrative accounts of 7/7 and 9/11.
Darren Lilleker (Bournemouth) Wondrous Stories: political narrative and political marketing.
2.30-3.30 Television Representations of Real People
Ben Highmore (Sussex) Come Dine With Me: Narrative, Time and Everyday Life.
Patricia Holland (Bournemouth) Sick Children.
3.30-1.45 Coffee
3.45- 4.45 Transformative Narratives
Chris Pullen (Bournemouth) The Transgendered Body and Documentary Narratives: Resistance, Partnership and Domestic Screen Memories.
Craig Batty (Bournemouth) When What You Want Is Not What You Need: The Hero’s Journey and Cinematic Narratives of Transformation.
Peri Bradley (Southampton) The Good, the Bad and the Healthy: The Transforming Body and Narratives of Health and Beauty in Reality TV.
4.45 Closing Remarks
5-5.30 Performance of Little Boy, by John Foster, Screenwriter in Residence, Bournemouth University.
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