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[ecrea] World War II and the Media

Wed Mar 02 11:19:46 GMT 2011



Symposium announcement and final call for papers:

World War II and the Media
22nd June, 2011
Warrington Campus, University of Chester

Seven decades on, media representations of World War II remain at the heart of debates about the nation. This one-day conference at the University of Chester's Warrington campus is intended to address both contemporaneous coverage of the conflict, and its portrayal in present-day media. 'World War II and the Media' aims to take an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of both factual and fictional representations. It is open to researchers from across the media and cultural studies in the broadest sense, with applications encouraged from those working in the areas of journalism, film, radio, photography, popular music, media history and popular memory. Papers focusing on international perspectives, both historical and present-day, would be particularly welcome.

Possible themes include:

WWII and national identity,
The BBC at war,
Contemporaneous press reportage,
Wartime censorship,
Oppositional/dissenting voices,
Literary journalism,
Wartime images and films,
The popular press and WWII,
Wartime and cultural memory,
Popular music,
Wartime radio broadcasting,
The war in fiction,
Entertaining the troops,
Reworking history: video games, songs and movies
WWII as a discursive resource in other debates

Please email a 200 word abstract (stating your name, email address and institutional affiliation) to: (simon.roberts /at/ chester.ac.uk)

The closing date for abstracts is 31 March 2011. There will be no registration fee for this event, but if you would like to attend without presenting a paper, or require further details, please send an email to: (simon.roberts /at/ chester.ac.uk).

Updates at: http://worldwar2chester.blogspot.com/


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