** On behalf of Helen K. Wood, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> **
Colleagues are invited for Prof Martin Barker's seminar on ‘The Horror, the Horror: How People Remember Watching Alien’ on 21 January, organised by the University of Leicester Department of Media and Communication. It will run from 4:00-5:30pm in the Bankfield House Seminar Room on 132 New Walk, Leicester and a drinks reception will be provided at 5:30.
Booking is not necessary, all are welcome.
For more information please see the abstract below, or contact Jonathan Ong ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
Abstract
2014 saw the 35th anniversary of the release of Ridley Scott’s film Alien – one of the most analysed films of all time (there have been well over 100 published accounts of it). But despite all the talk, and claims (many of those analyses include speculations about what the film must ‘mean’ and ‘do’ to its audience), there has never been any substantive audience research. In 2012 a group of four researchers decided to remedy this startling gap by launching an investigation of people’s memories of watching Alien. More than 1,000 people responded with detailed and structured accounts of when and how they saw the film, what it meant to them, and how they evaluated it. The results were surprising, and throw new light on the idea of ‘generational memories’.
Speaker's Bio
Martin Barker is Emeritus Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Aberystwyth. He is author of thirteen books on film, television and audience studies. He is founder and co-editor of the online audience studies journal Participations. Most recently, he directed a project funded by the British Board of Film Classification into audience responses to screened sexual violence.
Helen Wood
Professor of Media and Communication
Department of Media and Communication
University of Leicester
Bankfield House
132 New Walk
Leicester
LE1 7JA
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