[ecrea] Performance and television space conference

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*Performance and Television Space*

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*Friday 20 April 2012*

*Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries*

*University of Glamorgan*

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This is the second symposium arising from the AHRC 'Spaces of 
Television: Production, Site and Style' project: *Spaces of Television* 
<http://www.reading.ac.uk/ftt/research/Spacesoftelevision.aspx>*. *The 
project is led by Professor Jonathan Bignell (University of Reading) in 
collaboration with the Professor James Chapman (University of Leicester) 
and Professor Stephen Lacey (University of Glamorgan).

*Time: *9.30 (registration) to 5.15

*Place: * the ATRiuM, Adam St., Cardiff CF24 2FN

*Cost*: £25 (£20 students and unwaged)

The symposium will focus on performance and its relationship to 
television space, with a particular -- though not exclusive - emphasis 
on UK television drama 1955-1994, the period covered by the 'Spaces of 
Television' project.

The keynote address will be given by *Christine Geraghty* (Glasgow): 
'/Twitchy editing and careening cameras': the presentation of 
performance in Bleak House (2005)/: this paper will comment on the 
impact of setting on the presentation of performance in two BBC 
adaptations of Charles Dickens's /Bleak House/ in 1985 and 2005

The symposium will contain 4 panels: /Genre Performance; Performing 
Studio Language and Practices; Theatrical Performance; /and /Community 
Performance/.

In what promises to be a very stimulating day, presentations will range 
wide; eg from an analysis of performance and space in dinner-table 
scenes in / Coronation St/ (1960-)and /The Bar Mitzvah Boy/ (1976) to 
the criminal location as performance space in /Z Cars/ (1960-78) and / 
Strangers /(1978-82); from the influence of the actor's union, Equity, 
on BBC studio drama to the relationships between radical black theatre 
and television performance in /Black Feet in the Snow /(1974); and from 
feminism and studio performance in /Rock Follies/ (1976) to Lindsay 
Anderson's Brechtian TV drama, /The Old Crowd/ (BBC 1979)

The day will include an interview with the actor *Maurice Roeves* 
(/Tutti Frutti/, /The Journal of Bridget Hitler, Doctor Who, Danger UXB/)

A registration form, conference schedule, list of abstracts and travel 
and accommodation details can be accessed here: 
http://drama.research.glam.ac.uk/performanceandtelevision/

Enquiries to: Stephen Lacey -- (swlacey /at/ glam.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(swlacey /at/ glam.ac.uk)>


Stephen Lacey
Professor of Drama, Film and Television
Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries
University of Glamorgan
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