[ecrea] UEA Film, Television and Media Studies event on Media and National Identity

All welcome to this free-to-attend study day. Please contact Sarah Hill 
- (S.Hill1 /at/ uea.ac.uk) – for further details.



UEA Film, Television and Media Studies Spring 2014 Study Day

‘Imagining a Community’: Media and National Identity

Thursday 20th February 2014, Thomas Paine Study Centre 1.5, University 
of East Anglia

Organisers: Llewella Burton, Carolyn Ellam, Mark Fryers, Sarah Hill, 
Melanie Williams





9:30-9:45 – Welcome – Melanie Williams





9:45-11:15 – Panel 1: Television and Transnational Cultures



"Nadia, you were always a woman to us": Queer celebrity, reality 
television and effective national belonging - Michael Lovelock



Television that travels: the Middle East and beyond. A study of the 
critical reception of Magnificent Century (2011-present) - Eylem Atakav



Turkish TV series as a source of soft power and their reflection of 
Greek-Turkish relations – Umut Yukaruc





11:15-11:30 – Coffee break





11:30-1:00 – Panel 2: National Identity and Questions of Genre and Format



‘London has never looked so good’: StreetDance 3D and the British dance 
film – Sarah Hill



“Crazy Indonesia” or how global audiences fantasize Far East Cinemas – 
Ekky Imanjaya



Fight the Good Fight: ‘Realism’ and responsibility in creating British 
military TV comedy – Erica Horton and Sarah Ralph





1:00-2:00 – Lunch





2:00-2:45 – Keynote Address



The Mediation of Nationhood: Communicating the World as a World of 
Nations – Michael Skey





2:45-4:15 – Panel 3: Gendered Nationality and Film



‘It’s time to tell her story’: Women directors and Taiwanese cinema – 
Shin-Yuu Shen



Monster: A critical perspective of the American Dream – Matt Selway



‘On Her Majesty’s service’: Maritime mercenary films and the protection 
of ‘mother England’ – Mark Fryers







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