The Politics of Television Space
Published: 8 March 2011THE POLITICS OF TELEVISION SPACE
A one-day symposium
Friday 8 April 2011
University of Leicester
Attenborough Seminar Block
Rooms 210 / 212
10.00 am – 6.00 pm
The first symposium arising from the AHRC-funded project, ‘Spaces of Television’ will focus on the theme of ‘The Politics of Television Space’
Keynote speaker:Peter Hutchings (author of Hammer and Beyond: The British Horror Film): ‘Dangerous Spaces: Studios, video and the 1970s psychological thriller’.
Guest speakers: Howard Schuman (writer of Rock Follies and many single plays) and Piers Haggard (director of Pennies from Heaven and The Quatermass Conclusion) will discuss their experiences of working in a variety of production contexts and environments.
Papers:
Matthew Bailey: ‘Corridors of power: the depiction of the House of Commons in television drama’
Jonathan Bignell: ‘Modernity and spatial politics: Gerry Anderson’s puppet science fictions’
E. Anna Claydon: ‘The Detective, the Criminal and the Countryside: the place of rural Britain in the criminal landscape’
David Dunn: ‘A Tangle with the Isles: Contested spaces in Scottish Television’s Gaelic soap opera Machair.
Richard Hewett: ‘Survivors: modes of production and acting style’
Rachael Keene: ‘Breaking up the Sameness’: Channel 4’s Eleventh Hour and the scheduling of independent film and video on British television’
Douglas McNaughton: ‘Imperial Spaces: I, Claudius and constructing the Eternal City at White City’
Laura Mayne: ‘A sense of time and place’: examining the regional aesthetic in the work of Channel 4’s first Commissioning Editor for Fiction, David Rose’
Andrew O’Day: ‘“I, Spy, with my little eye”: Surveillance and space in Doctor Who’
Leah Panos: ‘Humanising politics: dramatic space in Trevor Griffiths’ studio plays’
Sally Shaw: ‘Light entertainment’ as contested socio-political space: audience and institutional responses to Love Thy Neighbour (1972-76)’
Sheryl Wilson and Simon Cross: In Two Minds and the politics of madness
For further details and to download booking forms, visit: www.cstonline.tv/politics-of-television-space
Enquiries should be directed to Professor James Chapman: jrc28@le.ac.uk
Further details of the project can be found at:
www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/research/Spacesoftelevision.aspx