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>Changes in visual news
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>A series of lectures about newsreels and the transition to television news
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>Each Tuesday from November 19 till December 17, 2002
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> From 6 PM till 7.30 PM
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>Film-Plateau - Gent (Belgium)
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>Organization: Working group Film and Television Studies (Ghent University)
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>Within the scope of current research on non-fiction, newsreels and 
>television news, the Working Group Film and Television Studies organizes a 
>series of lectures about newsreels and the transition to television news. 
>In this series specialists will express their opinions about the subject. 
>One of the foreign speakers is the Dutch film historian Bert Hogenkamp 
>(University of Utrecht), who will talk about the workers film news in the 
>twenties and thirties, while Stig Hjarvard (University of Copenhagen) will 
>deal with the transition from newsreels to television news. John Corner 
>(University of Liverpool) will shed light on the British context.
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>These lectures will be intensively illustrated with authentic film/video 
>material, including footage from the Imperial War Museum, the 
>Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv, the VRT Beeldarchief and the DR television 
>archives.In relation to these lectures, the working group also organizes a 
>series of master classes for university graduates as well as a series of 
>films in Film-Plateau about the imagination of journalists and editorial 
>staffs in the cinema 
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>PROGRAMME
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>Introduction to lectures : DANIEL BILTEREYST (Ghent University, B)
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>November 19  BERT HOGENKAMP (NIBG/University of Utrecht, NL) on workers 
>film news in the twenties and the thirties
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>November 26  ROEL VANDE WINKEL (Ghent University, B) on film news and 
>propaganda in occupied Belgium
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>December 3  STIG HJARVARD (University of Copenhagen, DK) Against the very 
>nature of the medium (lecture in English)
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>December 12  JOHN CORNER (Liverpool University, UK) Seeing Behind the 
>news: the World in Action project (lecture in English)
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>December 17  LIEVE DESMET (Ghent University, B) on the early beginnings of 
>television news on the Flemish public broadcasting corporation
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>ABSTRACTS AND ShORT CVs
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>DANIEL BILTEREYST is a professor at the Ghent University, where he teaches 
>film, television and cultural media studies and where he leads the Working 
>Group Film and Television Studies. His field of research is about the 
>media as a crucial forum for social debate, controversy and the spreading 
>of information and knowledge. He is the promoter of several research 
>projects funded by the Scientific Research Fund (Flanders, B, see further: 
>current research). In his personal research he concentrates mainly on 
>controversial cinema and television, using both contemporary genres (e.g. 
>forms of reality television) and more historical cases. He is currently 
>conducting a large scale research on controversial films and film 
>censorship in Belgium (Forbidden Images: Controversy, changing society 
>and film censorship in Belgium, 2003-6). This series of lectures takes 
>place as part of research and working colleges about news and newsreels. 
>Daniel Biltereyst introduces and moderates the lectures.
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>BERT HOGENKAMP is a media historian at the Dutch Institute for Image and 
>Sound in Hilversum, NL. Moreover, he is a professor of film history, radio 
>and television at the University of Utrecht. His research specialities are 
>the history of documentary films and the use of films by the workers 
>movement in Western Europe.
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>The news differently or different news: workers film news in the 20s and 30s
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>In the 20s and 30s, the need was felt within the left wing movement to 
>introduce an alternative to the commercial or middle-class film news. 
>Film editing was an important means with which even images from the 
>middle-class news could be given a new meaning. Besides that, the workers 
>news showed events which were left aside by the commercial news.
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>ROEL VANDE WINKEL is an historian, linked to the Working Group of Film and 
>Television Studies of the Communication Sciences Department, Ghent 
>University. He works as a researcher for Light on a collective history, 
>) a research project promoted by Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent U) in 
>collaboration with the Royal Film Archives; the project is financed by the 
>Flemish Scientific Research Council (Max Wildiers Fund). His specialities 
>of research are: non-fiction film in/about Flanders (1895-1950) and film 
>and propaganda in the Third Reich (1933-1945).
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>Film news and propaganda in occupied Belgium
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>This lecture, an introduction to a Ph.D. which will be defended in 2003, 
>shows how the German occupying forces obliged the projection of propaganda 
>film news. At first, these newscasts were made in Berlin, including the 
>French or Dutch comments. After a few months though, a local editorial 
>staff was installed in Brussels which was supposed to give a Belgian look 
>to the German propaganda. Next to comparing the German original to the 
>Belgian clone, the attention is focused on the way in which television 
>producers use this material in historical documentaries nowadays. The 
>material shown originates from the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv collections.
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>STIG HJARVARD is professor at the Department of Film & Media Studies, 
>University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Head of department 1996-1999; head of 
>research programme "Global Media Cultures 1999 - 2001" 
>(www.media.ku.dk/global), head of The National Research School for Media, 
>Communication, and Journalism (www.fmkj.dk). Research areas: international 
>news, television history, journalism, rating analysis, toys and media. 
>Recent books in English: "Audiovisual Media in Transition" (1998, coedited 
>with Thomas Tufte, Sekvens) and "News in a Globalized Society" (2001, 
>editor, Nordicom). He is currently editing a book on the programme history 
>of Danish television.
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>Against the very nature of the medium
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>It was not until 1965, that Danish television began its regular news 
>programming, and although it was much awaited, it was met with harsh 
>criticism. This way of reporting the news, the public verdict sounded, 
>"was against the very nature of the medium". Earlier on, the factual 
>programming on Danish television had consisted of newsreel formats and 
>different kinds
>of documentaries and current affairs programmes. In this lecture 
>particular attention is paid to the analysis of the non-personal, very 
>formal and highly institutional mode of address that characterized the 
>early years of news broadcasting in Danish television. How - and why - it 
>departed from both earlier and later audiovisual news formats is discussed 
>in relation to both aesthetic conventions, technological possibilities and 
>institutional constraints.
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>JOHN CORNER is Professor in the School of Politics and Communication 
>Studies, University of Liverpool and an editor of the journal, Media, 
>Culture and Society. He has published widely in books and journals and 
>his recent books include Studying the Media: Problems of Theory and 
>Method (Edinburgh 1998) and Critical Ideas in Television Studies 
>(Oxford 1999). He is currently writing on Political Communication and on 
>Television History.
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>Seeing Behind the News: the World in Action project
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>The series World in Action ran in Britain from the early 1960s and was a 
>big influence on the development of television journalism. It set itself 
>the challenge of crafting a new kind of pictorial reporting, drawing on 
>the methods of broadcast news, the tradition of documentary film-making 
>and new currents in newspaper feature-writing. It attempted to be both 
>serious and popular, holding the audience within a strong narrative and 
>scopic design. This lecture looks at some of the key elements of the WIA 
>recipe, drawing particularly on the ways in which it often attempted to 
>place itself inside the stories it told, opening up new pictorial space 
>for reportage. Screenings will be from WIA material.
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>LIEVE DESMET has a Ph.D. mandate from the BOF (UG 2002-5) at the 
>Communications Sciences Department with Daniel Biltereyst as her promotor. 
>She is also joined to the Working Group Film and Television Studies. Her 
>project consists of a multimethodological research on the development of 
>television news as a genre by the Flemish public broadcasting corporation 
>(1953-2003). The study is based upon original material and news scripts of 
>the VRT Images Archives. Her specialities of research are evolutions in 
>format, contents and discourse of television news.
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>Start and development of television news on the Belgian PSB
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>Processes of news production are aggregates of meaningful practices always 
>embedded in a historical, social, political, technological and economic 
>context. Television news can be considered as a culture form. The 
>perspective is to see the newscast not only as a report of reality, but to 
>examine it as reality unto itself. Three assumptions will be considered. 
>Firstly, the long-term development of television news cant be understood 
>simply as a linear and continuous trend over time. Secondly, the impact 
>and influence of political, cultural, economic, social and technological 
>circumstances vary in time. Thirdly, the expansion, the monopolization and 
>the protection of an own authority lead to common standards of what 
>television news is and should be and to typical news formats, news 
>contents and news representations. This lecture will discuss and 
>illustrate those three topics for the television news on the Belgian PSB.
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>PRACTICAL INFORMATION
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>Place: Film-Plateau  Paddenhoek 3  9000 Gent - Belgium
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>Entrance: free
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>Information: Tel. : 09 264 91 85  
>E-mail:<mailto:(yen.peeren /at/ rug.ac.be)>(yen.peeren /at/ rug.ac.be)
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