[eccr] Fwd: The Spectacle of the Real, conference

>Hi all
>Details below of conference at Brunel University in January.
>cheers
>geoff king
>
>
>The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to 'Reality' TV and Beyond
>
>Brunel University 25-26 January 2003
>
>Keynote speakers:
>
>Douglas Kellner, UCLA
>
>Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology
>
>Conference Fees
>
>£95 for both days (students £65)
>
>£50 for one day (students £35)
>
>Programme
>
>SATURDAY 25 January
>
>Registration/coffee, 9-10
>
>Keynote, 10 -11
>
>Douglas Kellner, UCLA, '9-11, Terror War and Media Spectacle: Welcome to 
>the New
>Orwellian World'
>
>Coffee
>
>Session 1: Spectacle, Ideology, Catastrophe 11.30 -1.15
>
>Eugene Arva, University of Miami, 'Life as Show Time: Aesthetic Images and
>Ideological Spectacles'
>
>Lee Rodney, Goldsmiths, London, 'Real-time, Catastrophe, Spectacle: 
>Reality as
>Fantasy in Live Media'
>
>Geoff King, Brunel University, '"Just Like a Movie?": 9-11 and Hollywood 
>Spectacle'
>
>Dean Lockwood, University of Lincoln, 'Teratology of the Spectacle'
>
>Lunch, 1.15 -2.15
>
>Session 2: Reality/TV, 2.15-4.00
>
>Christine Fanthome, 'The Unrealities of Reality TV'
>
>Amy West, University of Aukland, 'The Low-Tech Reality Effect and 'Visual 
>Ordinariness'
>
>Misha Kavka, University of Aukland, 'Reality Matters; or, How I Learned to 
>love Reality TV'
>
>Annette Hill, University of Westminster, 'Real TV; Audience Resonses to 
>Factual Entertainment'
>
>Tea/coffee
>
>Session 3: Reality TV/Documentary, 4.30-6.00
>
>Strand 1
>
>Deborah Jermyn, Southampton Institute,'"It's the most dramatic thing you 
>can have":
>CCTV and the spectacle of actuality in television crime appeal programming'
>
>Leon Hunt, Brunel University, 'Hell-in-a-Cell and Other Stories: Violence and
>Authenticity in 'Hardcore' Wrestling'
>
>Bernadette Flynn, Griffith University, Brisbane, 'Docobriocalage in the 
>age of simulation'
>
>Strand 2
>
>Tanya Horeck, Anglia Polytechnic University,'Public Rape: Raw Deal: A 
>Question of Consent'
>
>Frances Bonner, University of Queensland, '"Looking Inside": Showing 
>Operations on Medical Television'
>
>Karen Scott, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 
>Bradford,'The Spectacle
>of "the Past": Contemporary documentary and the role of new technology'
>
>Drinks/Food
>
>SUNDAY 26 January
>
>Coffee, 9-9.30
>
>Session 4, 9.30-11.00
>
>Strand 1: Emotions/Trauma
>
>Michele Aaron, Brunel University, Spectacles of Death and the complicitous 
>spectator
>(title tbc)
>
>Kathy Smith, London Metropolitan University, 'Reframing Fantasy: September 
>11 and the
>Global Audience'
>
>Pat Cook, Brunel University, 'Watching Telly: Emotion Studies and the 
>Question of
>Moral Responsibility'
>
>Strand 2
>
>Hilary Harris, Griffith University, Brisbane, 'Military Humanitarianism: 
>To spectacularize
>the military but not to militarise the spectacle'
>
>Jon Kraszewski, Indiana University, 'Narratives and Spectacles of Race on 
>MTV's Reality Show "The Real World"'
>
>Julia Hallam, University of Liverpool, 'Split screen spectacles: engaging 
>viewers in the
>multi-channel TV landscape'
>
>Coffee
>
>Session 5: Film, 11.30-1.15
>
>Michele Pierson, University of Queensland, 'A Production Designer's 
>Cinema: Authenticity
>and Allusion in Historical-Fantasy Film'
>
>Lisa Purse, University of Reading, 'The New Spatial Dynamics of the 
>Bullet-Time Effect'
>
>Pat Brereton, Dublin City Universtiy, 'Representations of Historical, 
>Ecological and
>Future Disasters - A case study of Spielberg's use of SFX'
>
>Taek-Gwang Lee, University of Sheffield, 'The Logic of Computer-Generated 
>Film'
>
>Lunch, 1.15-2.15
>
>Session 6: Film/Animation, 2.15-4.00
>
>Strand 1
>
>Julian Petley, Brunel, 'Real Life Death'
>
>Peg Aloi, Emerson College, 'Beyond the Blair Witch: A New Horror Aesthetic?'
>
>Mike Wayne, Brunel, 'Spectacles of Reification: Possession, Ghosts and 
>Value Theory
>
>Tanya Krzywinska, Brunel University, 'The Enigma of the Real: Authentic 
>Sex in
>Contemporary "Legitimate" Cinema'
>
>Strand 2
>
>Seth Giddings, University of West of England, '"They must be simulated": 
>Animation as
>Spectacular Realism'
>
>Paul Ward, Brunel University, '"I was dreaming I was awake, but then I 
>woke up and
>found myself asleep": Dreaming, Spectacle and Reality in Richard 
>Linklater's Waking Life'
>
>Martin Flanagan, Bolton Institute, 'Toy Stories: Technology, Space and 
>Realism in Pixar Films'
>
>Session 7, 4.30-6pm
>
>Closing keynote and plenary discussion
>
>Jay David Bolter, Georgia Institute of Technology, 'New Media and the 
>Remediation of Spectacle'
>
>
>
>Geoff King
>Film and TV Studies
>Brunel University, UK
>(tvstggk /at/ brunel.ac.uk)

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