KEYNOTE SPEAKER CONFIRMED

We are delighted to announce that prolific scholar DR HELEN WHEATLEY (Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick) will be our keynote speaker for Re-Thinking Cinema and Television History. 

Biography of Dr Helen Wheatley (from University of Warwick's website)

Helen Wheatley has research interests in various aspects of British television history. She has published a range of work on popular genres in television drama in the UK, US, and beyond (particularly the studio-based drama of the 1960s and 70s), and has written a book in this area entitled Gothic Television for Manchester University Press (2006). She also has an ongoing interest in issues of television history and historiography, a topic on which she has recently edited a collection of essays: Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography (IB Tauris, 2007).

Helen is currently undertaking research on the notion of television spectacle and visual pleasure on television, and is writing about colonial wildlife television in 2011/12. She is also co-investigator on the forthcoming AHRC-funded project, A History of Television For Women in Britain, 1947-1989 (with Dr. Rachel Moseley (Warwick) and Dr. Helen Wood(De Montfort University)). As a member of the Midlands Television Research Group, Helen has undertaken research into 'lifestyle', primetime television, and the ‘real crime’ genre.

This biography was taken from the University of Warwick's official website, and can be found here.