[ecrea] University of Kent Annual Film and Television Studies Symposium 2006

>University of Kent Annual Department of Film Studies Symposium
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>'TELEVISION, GENRE AND EVALUATION'
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>Thursday 1st June, 2006, 10.00am-4.30pm
>Grimond Lecture Theatre 3, Canterbury Campus
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>Despite the 'virtual omnipresence' (Mittell, 2004) of generic categories in
>television, from television scheduling and listings, channel branding, and
>everyday talk, through to academic study, the complexity of the medium's
>relations with genre has rarely been subjected to sustained analysis. Given
>contemporary developments in television itself, as well as the on-going
>development of Television Studies as an academic discipline, the time seems
>right to revisit the question of genre within the medium. With this in
>mind, the University of Kent is hosting a one-day symposium that aims to
>interrogate television's relations with genre, as these range across
>questions of history, methodological approach, aesthetics and evaluation.
>The fact that generic categories are never 'neutral' -- that ascribing or
>debating generic categories also involves processes of evaluation -- forms
>a particularly important theme of the day. The symposium aims to offer an
>eclectic range of papers, including those that address specific programme
>texts, and those that offer explorations of broader conceptual, theoretical
>and historical debates, as well as time for open discussion of the themes
>addressed.
>
>Speakers include
>Professor John Ellis, Royal Holloway, University of London
>Professor Robin Nelson, Manchester Metropolitan University
>Dr Steven Peacock, Southampton Solent University
>Dr Su Holmes, University of Kent
>
>This one-day event is the latest in a series of annual Department of Film
>Studies symposia held at Kent since 1998 (previous keynote speakers have
>included David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Victor Perkins, Steve Neale,
>Richard Allen and Robert Stam).
>
>The 2006 symposium is organised by Dr Sarah Cardwell (Adaptation Revisited
>[2002]; Andrew Davies [2005]) and Dr Su Holmes (British TV and Film Culture
>in the 1950s: Coming to a TV Near You! [2005]; Understanding Reality TV
>[2004], co-editor).
>
>Entrance is free. For further information please contact Jan Langbein
>((j.langbein /at/ kent.ac.uk); tel. 01227 823177) or Dr Catherine Grant
>((c.a.grant /at/ kent.ac.uk); tel. 01227 823749). The full programme will be
>circulated shortly.

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