[ecrea] The Big Reveal: Lifestyle TV Conference

>CFP: First International Conference of Lifestyle Television:
>The Big Reveal: Style, Class and Industry
>
>Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research
>Centre.  University of Salford  -  25th -  27th April 2007
>
>Lifestyle television encompasses a range of themes
>including cookery, make-over shows, homes & gardens
>and  design-oriented shows.  But despite the rapid
>expansion of  the genre over the last twenty years the
>area remains  relatively under-explored by scholars.
>
>The significance of lifestyle television may lie in a
>number of  factors such as the promotion of certain
>moral frameworks,  or proposing alternative models of
>social identity. Such  programming can reveal much
>about issues of class, taste  and gender. Lifestyle
>television is peculiarly engaging  because it can
>encourage individuals to see themselves as  projects
>that must be carefully maintained and which can be
>transformed and managed through the guidance of
>lifestyle  gurus and other types of expertise.
>The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars
>working in television studies, cultural studies and
>sociology  with industry figures responsible for the many
>developments  in the field. We welcome panels and
>proposals for papers  that investigate gender, class and
>identity as well as those  which theorise the relationship
>between the moral- pedagogical tenets of lifestyle
>television and their varied  audiences.
>Possible topics for consideration might include, but are
>not  limited to, the following:
>Lifestyle TV histories
>Feminism and femininity
>Class and taste
>Cosmetic surgery and body politics
>Consumer culture
>Celebrity and lifestyle
>Self and identity
>Queer theory and lifestyle
>Domesticity
>Lifestyle gurus
>Models of Masculinity
>
>
>Please send 300-word abstracts or panel proposals by
>November 30th 2006 to
>(K.Fairclough /at/ salford.ac.uk) and (G.Palmer /at/ salford.ac.uk)
>
>'The Big Reveal' Lifestyle Conference
>School of Media, Music and Performance
>University of Salford
>Adelphi Campus
>Salford
>M3 6EQ
>United Kingdom
>T: +44 0161 2956060/2956044
>W: www.ccm.salford.ac.uk

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