RE-THINKING CINEMA AND TELEVISION HISTORY: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS
AN INTERNATIONAL POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
3 April 2012, De Montfort University, Clephan Building, Floor 3
Conference Programme (Updated 28/03/12)
9.00 Registration
9.40 Welcome & Introduction (Room 3.03)
9.50 KEYNOTE 1: Dr Helen Wheatley (University of Warwick):
“Marvellous, awesome, true-to-life, epoch-making, a new dimension”: Reconsidering the early history of colour television in Britain (Room 3.03)
10.50 PANEL 1: Representing National Histories: Memory and Nostalgia
(Chair: Tom Watson) (Room 3.03)
Toby Reynolds (University of East Anglia): Realms of memory, realms of ghosts: The Spanish Civil War and the cinematic treatment of history
Andy Pope (University of Portsmouth): The re-imagining of the 1980s in contemporary British cinema: Memory, methodology and the recycling of the recent past
Caitlin Shaw (De Montfort University): Trendy soundtracks, chic aesthetics and the authentic: Seventies and eighties nostalgia in recent British music films
Matthew Robinson (University of the West of England): Darwin and Dury: Historical lives, fathering and trauma narratives in the British biopic
PANEL 2: Television Studies: Identities and Methodologies
(Chair: Alex Rock) (Room 3.01)
Vanessa Jackson (Birmingham City University): Using social media to build hidden screen histories – A case study of the Pebblemill.org Project
Jilly Boyce Kay (De Montfort University): History, theory and gender: Methodological problems in researching the representation of feminism on factual television
Hazel Collie (De Montfort University): From Cathy “Queen of the Mods” to Paula “Pop Princess”: Women, music television and adolescent female identity
Amanda Beauchamp (University of Reading): Methodological approaches to studying the television history of Blue Peter
12.30 – 13.15 BUFFET LUNCH (Room 3.02)
13.15 PANEL 3: Adaptation: Re-Writing Fictions and Histories
(Chair: Laura Mee) (Room 3.03)
Joseph Oldham (University of Warwick): “Disappointed Romantics”: Troubled Heritage in the BBC’s John Le Carré Adaptations
Cameron Dodworth (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): The epic tragedy and depressing Future of The Odyssey and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Oedipus Rex and Forbidden Planet
Kathrin Rothemund (Leuphana University): Film history sweded
PANEL 4: Documenting Historical ‘Truths’
(Chair: Gary Jenkins) (Room 3.01)
Martin Oller-Alonso (University of Rey Juan Carlos): Representation of reality in television fiction: an empirical study based on the analysis of the Spanish television series Cuéntame cómo pasó
Steve Presence (University of the West of England): Maintaining a Critical Eye: Oppositional documentary on Channel 4 in the 1990s
Thomas Joseph Watson (Northumbria University): Paradise Lost and the violence of investigation: The documented history of the “West Memphis Three”
14.45 – 15.00 COFFEE (Room 3.02)
15.00 KEYNOTE 2: Professor John Ellis (Royal Holloway University of London):
“What kinds of history do TV and film need?” (Room 3.03)
16.00 PANEL 5: The Influence of Globalisation and Neoliberalism
(Chair: Caitlin Shaw) (Room 3.03)
Sylwia Szostak (University of Nottingham): The Polish TV fictionscape: The domestication of serialised storytelling
Dieter Declercq (De Montfort University): Cultural crisis and critical comedy: A task for film and television studies
Nathaniel Townsend (University of York): The trans/national divide: From British national cinema to transatlantic British cinema
PANEL 6: Contexts of Production and Reception
(Chair: Jilly Boyce Kay) (Room 3.01)
Alex Rock (De Montfort University): “Now it’s entertainment, now it’s propaganda”: The Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the production of The Blue Lamp
Ben Lamb (Glamorgan University): Spaces of special branch: Production, site and style
Abby Waysdorf (Utrecht University): Ivory TV Towers: Comment threads, DVDs, streams, and the television canon
Mark Richard Adams (Brunel University): Re-contextualising television authorship: New historical examinations of the author
17.45 – 18.00 COFFEE (Room 3.02)
18.00 Plenary discussion: Re-Thinking Cinema and Television History
(Chair: Dr Jamie Medhurst, Aberystwyth University)
Professor John Ellis (Royal Holloway), Dr Helen Wheatley (Warwick), Dr Claire Monk (De Montfort) and Dr James Russell (De Montfort) (Room 3.03)
18.45 Conference close (on to the pub) (Room 3.03)
19.15 Conference dinner at Shimla Pinks, London Road (£14.95 per person)
