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[Commlist] Conference: Designs on television

Fri Mar 29 09:36:00 GMT 2024





*DESIGNS ON TELEVISION: PRODUCTION DESIGN AND TELEVISION AESTHETICS *

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18-19 April 2024, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, LONDON NW1 5LS (opposite Baker St Tube station), in Chiltern Hall.**

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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.

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 aesthetic. 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.

There will be input from industry practitioners to discuss their experience of television design. In addition, in collaboration with the University of Brighton Design Archives, which holds the papers of the pioneering television designer Natasha Kroll (1914-2004) among others, there will be an accompanying exhibition of documents and artefacts related to television design.

*REGISTER HERE:*

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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)



*LIST OF PRESENTATIONS ACCEPTED*

Rooms within Rooms within Rooms: Designing the Television Afterlife

Helen Wheatley

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

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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

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

Interior Makeover Programmes: Strategies Behind the Camera

Neville Knott

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

Geraint D’Arcy

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

Kevin Geddes and Mary Irwin

Front Row: /The French Chef /and its Kitchen Counter

Verena Mund

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

Lesley Whitworth

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

Q&A with the members of the Production Design Research & Education Network (PD-REN)



A CREAM, University of Westminster conference


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