[ecrea] Gender and Television Comedy Symposium, Northumbria University 14/01/12

Acting Up: A Symposium on Gender and Television Comedy Symposium: DEADLINE REMINDER

This is a reminder of the looming deadline (September 1st 2011) for proposals for this day symposium on January 14th 2012 at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK).

Television comedy calls upon a wide range of cultural references and forms, including the constantly mutating genres of television itself (such as sitcom and reality tv), cinematic performances (Chaplin to Carey) and longstanding theatrical traditions (such as clowning and commedia dell’arte). In the last forty years academic examination of the many facets of television and comedy has become an established field, yet to date there is little literature available that closely examines the performance of gendered identities in comedy television. The work of Kathleen Rowe and Frances Gray in the early 1990s remains key in debates about women and television comedy, but this day symposium seeks to extend the discussions established in their work, to examine the performance of a wide range of gender and sexual identities. This event will examine how gender is performed, subverted, reiterated and transformed through television comedy.

Plenary speaker: Frances Gray (former Reader in Drama, University of Sheffield) on ‘Britain’s Got Bedlam: Comedy and Reality TV’.

Papers are invited on issues such as:
* Feminism and femininity
* The performance of heteromasculinity
* Camp and the politics of gender
* Age and gender
* Gay/Lesbian/Queer characters and actors
* Gender and class identity
* Race, ethnicity and gender

Please send 300-word proposals with a 50 word biographical note by September 1st to (rosemary.white /at/ northumbria.ac.uk) and (james.leggott /at/ northumbria.ac.uk)

The early registration fee (until 1st December 2011) is £20, the student fee is £20, and the full fee is £40. Booking is now open at: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/sass/events/sassevents/Act_Up_Comedy

Regards,
James Leggott and Rosie White
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST




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