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[ecrea] cfp - war on terror

Fri Jul 31 14:53:25 GMT 2009



CALL FOR PAPERS:

Representing the War on Terror: post 9/11 television drama and documentary

One day conference at the ATRiuM, CCI, University of Glamorgan, Cardiff

Saturday November 21st 2009

The phrase ?the War on Terror? has become shorthand for the West?s response to the attack on New York?s twin towers in September 2001, and has never been far from our television screens since. Although the phrase itself is controversial, television has engaged directly, and obliquely, with the new realities of the post-9/11 world. Much of the coverage has been in news, current affairs and documentaries, but there have also been several significant one-off filmed dramas made by UK companies (largely independents) and transmitted by broadcasters in the UK and abroad to considerable acclaim. These range from an account of the attack itself (The Hamburg Cell, C4 2004); to an examination of the David Kelley affair (The Government Inspector C4, 2005); to a projected assassination of the US President (Death of a President C4 2006); to an analysis of the radicalisation of British Muslims in the BAFTA-winning Britz (C4 2007); to an account of the arrest, imprisonment and release of British citizens in Guantanamo Bay (The Road to Guantanamo C4 2006); to an exploration of the role of the British army and mercenaries in Iraq (Occupations, BBC 2009).

This conference invites colleagues to examine these and other fictional and docudrama and documentary programmes/series that take the ?War on Terror?, and the complex response to it, as their subject matter.

Potential topics of discussion might include, but are not limited to:

·       Textual analyses of specific representations

·       Problems and possibilities of acting in such forms

·       Production contexts, commissioning, independent production

· Aesthetic contexts: docudrama in a new era; representing historical agents and agency

·       Audiences and their response to contemporary docudrama

Peter Kosminsky, the award-winning filmmaker and director of several important contributions to post-9/11 drama (including Britz and The Government Inspector), will attend and take part in a discussion in the afternoon (see brief biog below).

The conference organisers are Stephen Lacey (University of Glamorgan) and Derek Paget (University of Reading).

Please submit your title and a 350-word abstract to Stephen Lacey (to whom any enquiries should be addressed) at: <mailto:(swlacey /at/ glam.ac.uk)>(swlacey /at/ glam.ac.uk) by September 30th 09

We look forward to hearing from you.

Peter Kosminsky: brief biog (extracted from the British Documentary website)

Peter Kosminsky began his career in 1980 at the BBC as a general trainee, working as a Drama Script Editor before moving to Current Affairs as a director on Nationwide, Breakfast Time and Newsnight. He then joined Yorkshire Television in 1985 as documentary Producer/Director for the First Tuesday series, which included the award winning The Falklands War - The Untold Story, Cambodia: Children of the Killing Fields and Afghantsi, as well as the two-part drama Shoot To Kill by Michael Eaton. In the early nineties, he turned to fiction with Wuthering Heights and since 1995 has worked freelance. After The Life and Death of Philip Knight - the life and death of a young man who is victim of a miscarriage of justice and commits suicide in prison - he made The Dying of the Light, about the murder of a British aid worker working with UNICEF in Somalia. Then came No Child of Mine and Walking on the Moon, after which he directed Warriors, in which he described the plight of a British UNPROFOR peacekeeping battalion in Bosnia in 1992. He followed this with the docudrama Innocents, which dealt with experimental surgical practices used on children in Bristol. The Project was a chronicle about the rise to power of Tony Blair's Labor Party, after which he directed a feature in Hollywood, White Oleander. His recent work includes: The Government Inspector a film for Channel 4 and Arte about the suicide of leading microbiologist and former chemical weapons specialist David Kelly, and Britz , also for C4, about the radicalization of British Muslims. Kosminsky was a past winner of the Alan Clarke Award for Outstanding Creative Contribution to Television and is a Fellow-elect of the RTS.

Professor Stephen Lacey

Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries/Ysgol Diwydiannau Creadigol a Diwylliannol Caerdydd

University of  Glamorgan/Prifysgol Morgannwg

ATRiuM

Adam St/Heol Adam

Cardiff/Caerdydd CF24 2FN

tel: 01443-668611 (direct line)

     01443-480480 (university switchboard)

(swlacey /at/ glam.ac.uk)

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