Call for Papers: ?The Politics of Television Space?
University of Leicester: Friday 8 April 2011
The first symposium arising from the AHRC
?Spaces of Television? project will be held at
the University of Leicester on Friday 8 April
2011. Proposals are invited for papers and/or
panels on the theme of ?The Politics of Television Space? ? broadly defined.
The project focuses specifically on television
drama in Britain between 1955 and 1994, and we
particularly welcome papers in this area, though
we will also consider comparative perspectives
(e.g. dramas from other television industries,
import/export, transnational exchange, co-productions).
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
* The institutional, cultural and aesthetic
relationships between the spaces of television
drama production (studio, location) and political meaning.
* The socio-political significance of
different technologies of drama production (live, tape, film).
* Histories and historiographies of
television drama, particularly relating to
production strategies and institutional contexts.
* The social and cultural meanings of the
spaces depicted in television drama: e.g.
heritage spaces, the urban and the rural,
regional, national and foreign spaces, fantasy spaces.
* Case studies of ?political? dramas or the
work of ?political? dramatists, focusing on mise-en-scene and issues of space.
Proposals to Professor James Chapman
(<mailto:(jrc28 /at/ le.ac.uk)>(jrc28 /at/ le.ac.uk)) by 15 December 2010.
We envisage 20-minute papers with no parallel
sessions. We welcome proposals from both
established scholars and early career
researchers including postgraduate students.
?Spaces of Television? is an AHRC-funded
research project led by the University of
Reading in collaboration with the University of
Leicester and the University of Reading.
Further details of the project can be found at:
<http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/research/Spacesoftelevision.aspx>http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/research/Spacesoftelevision.aspx
Professor Stephen Lacey
Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural
Industries/Ysgol Diwydiannau Creadigol a Diwylliannol Caerdydd
University of Glamorgan/Prifysgol Morgannwg
ATRiuM
Adam St/Heol Adam
Cardiff/Caerdydd CF24 2FN
tel: 01443-668611 (direct line)
01443-480480 (university switchboard)
(swlacey /at/ glam.ac.uk)
