[Commlist] 'Designs on TV' Conference

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*DESIGNS ON TELEVISION: PRODUCTION DESIGN AND TELEVISION AESTHETICS*
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*A CREAM, University of Westminster conference*
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*April 18^th  and 19^th  2024, University of Westminster, Regent Street, 
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*ORGANISERS *
Dr Christopher Hogg – (C.Hogg /at/ westminster.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(C.Hogg /at/ westminster.ac.uk)> (University of Westminster)
Dr Douglas McNaughton – (D.Mcnaughton /at/ brighton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(D.Mcnaughton /at/ brighton.ac.uk)> (University of Brighton)
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*OVERVIEW *

Design is a key element of all sorts of television, but frequently 
neglected in academic studies. In 2003, Piers D. Britton and Simon J. 
Barker wrote ‘No serious, sustained examination of the role of scenic or 
costume design in the medium has been attempted’ (p.1). Almost 20 years 
later, Britton wrote ‘Scholarly analysis of almost any form of design 
for the screen… is still a relatively new phenomenon’ (2021: 10). This 
conference seeks to examine various aspects of television design, 
including set design, set dressing, redressing locations, connections 
between real space and onscreen place, relationships between set design 
and costume design, and the interpersonal relationships and 
institutional structures which inform design for television.

The organisers feel that input from professionals is vital to 
understanding how television design works, and therefore there will be 
at least one panel of industry practitioners to discuss their experience 
of television design. In addition, the organisers will offer an 
accompanying display of documents, artefacts and costumes related to 
television design.

Early critical orthodoxies around television have assumed it is a medium 
lacking in any distinctive visual aesthetic. However, more recent work 
by scholars such as Steven Peacock, Brett Mills and Helen Wheatley has 
drawn attention to television’s aesthetics. As Wheatley (2016) argues, 
television has always been visual and has always been spectacular. This 
conference therefore aims to draw attention to the visual and aesthetic 
qualities of television design.
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*Keynote speaker: Helen Wheatley, University of Warwick. *
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*Along with extended presentations from University of Westminster 
researchers Jane Barnwell and John Wyver. *
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*Please direct any questions to the conference organisers. *
Dr Christopher Hogg – (C.Hogg /at/ westminster.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(C.Hogg /at/ westminster.ac.uk)>
Dr Douglas McNaughton – (D.Mcnaughton /at/ brighton.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(D.Mcnaughton /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>
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*PAPERS*

    Upstairs Downton: The Class Boundary When Filming in Stately Homes

    Rosemary Alexander-Jones

    Layers of ‘lost’ New York: Production design and period drama’s
    spatial imaginary

    Faye Woods

    ‘How to produce by a false thing the effects of a true’: asyndetic
    spaces in /The Mayor of Casterbridge/ (1978/2003)

    Douglas McNaughton

    Designed for Women? The aesthetics of domesticity in early (pre- and
    post-war) British television made for women

    Kevin Geddes and Mary Irwin

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    In front of a live studio audience: Authenticity, authority, and
    liveness in production design for non-fiction television.

    Geraint D’Arcy

    Shifting the Scenery. Natasha Kroll: “display man” and set designer

    Lesley Whitworth

    Irma Vep’s Spectral Mutations: The Black Catsuit and Its Implied
    Vampiric Attributes.
    Juan Miguel Pardo Garrido

    Creating Characters and Priming Performances: The Under-appreciated
    Role of Costume and Make-up Workers in UK Television Production
    1950-2000
    Vanessa Jackson

    ‘You’re not progressive enough for this!’: Queer codes and costume
    for /Sex and the City/And Just Like That/’s Miranda.
    Kate McNicholas Smith

    Predicting Set Production Limitations and Possibilities through
    Production Practices: A comparison of South Korean and Egyptian
    television

    Maria Andrea Etienne

    Dirty walls and peeling paint: the set design of public hospitals in
    the Brazilian television series /Under Pressure /

    Mariana Schwartz

    Set Design as Involuntary Memory Cue:/ Pushing Daisies,
    WandaVision/, and 1970s Sitcoms

    Jennifer Gillan

    Design and Reflexivity in Irwin Allen’s 1960s Adventure Series.

    Jonathan Bignell

    Interior Makeover Programmes: Strategies Behind the Camera

    Neville Knott

    The Beginnings of Scenic Design on British Television, 1928-1939.
    John Wyver

    The Designer’s Story – a model for the analysis and appreciation of
    screen design.
    Jane Barnwell
    Q&A with the members of the Production Design Research & Education
    Network (PD-REN)

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    */Further speakers to be announced/*



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