[Commlist] Class and Contemporary UK Film and Television. Online Conference 7

*Class and Contemporary UK Film and Television Online Conference*

London Metropolitan University

Registration Open

Thursday 7th July 2022 Online (9am - 7pm)

Contemporary film and TV in the UK appear to offer at least three 
interrelated problems for the lower socio-economic classes. There is 
imbalance, exploitation, and precarity in the industry; perennial 
problems around representation; and the inculcation of neoliberal 
ideology antithetical to social justice and equality. This free online 
conference is an opportunity to reflect upon and react to this scenario.

Joining details / website will be sent in advance of the conference.

For full details of abstacts, etc., please email 
(j.baldwin /at/ londonmet.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.baldwin /at/ londonmet.ac.uk)>

Registration is free. Book via Eventbrite here: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/class-and-contemporary-uk-film-and-television-virtual-conference-7-july-22-tickets-353654940447 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/class-and-contemporary-uk-film-and-television-virtual-conference-7-july-22-tickets-353654940447>

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*Schedule*

9.00 Start – Formalities

9.15 Zainab Khan Introduction

9.30 – 10.50*Precarity and Radicality *

Jeremy Collins - Chair

Andrew Jarvis - The Violence of Finance in /Bait/ (Mark Jenkin, 2019)

Ellie Power - Needed Modernising: Class conflict and the Time-image in 
Mark Jenkin’s /Bait/

Deirdre O'Neill - Inside film, Cultural Colonialization, and the Radical 
Potential of Film

10.50 – 11.00 Break

11.00 – 12.20 *Sitcoms and Reality TV*

John Keefe - Chair

Laura Minor - "Class, Comedy, and Caitlin/Caroline Moran’s Raised by 
Wolves: Women of the West Midlands Challenging ‘Poverty Porn’ on TV"

Mary Irwin - ‘Turkey Dinosaurs and Double Dinners’: This Country’s 
Everyday Lives in Rural Gloucestershire

Lila Messaoudi - Reality TV Shows (Love Island): Serial Consumption

12.20 – 12.30 Break

12.30 – 1.50***Gender and sexuality*

Jenny Harding - Chair

Victoria Santamaría Ibor - “I’ve Been in a Prison all my Life”: 
Femininity and Social Abjection in /Last Night in Soho/

Hà Bao Ngan Dong - Consuming the Homocolonialist Ga(y)ze in Shamim 
Sarif’s /I Can’t Think Straight/

Martin Murray - How Do I Look? Sex, Gender, Class and the Gaze in Andrea 
Arnold’s /Dog/

1.50 – 2.30 Break

2.30 – 3.50 *Taste*, *Heritage, and Imperial Nostalgia***

Karen McNally - Chair

Tom May - Building paintings of class through taste: an analysis of 
production design in /Play for Today/ (BBC1, 1970-1984)

Emily Hoffman - Bad Manors: Bergerac as Anti-Thatcher, Anti-Heritage Polemic

Daniel E Smith - The Imperial Wonder Boy: Benedict Cumberbatch, Imperial 
Masculinity, and British Film/TV Nostalgia

3.50 – 4.00 Break

4.00 – 5.20 *British Social Realism*

Mike Wayne - Chair

Katerina Flint-Nicol - It’s a question of class. Embodiment, 
fabrication, and performance, in British social realism.

Thirza Wakefield - Televisual seriality, and the dramatisation of 
working-class community in Shane Meadows’s works for television (2010–2019)

Temenuga D Trifonova - Social Realism and Class in UK Films

5.20 – 5.30 Break


5.30 – 6.00 *The Acting Class* (Deirdre O’Neill and Mike Wayne) 
Film-makers question and answer session.

Katerina Flint-Nicol - Chair

6.00 – 6.10 Break


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6.10 – 7.00 *Keynote:**Precarity, the Working Class and British Cinema – 
John Hill*

Jon Baldwin - Chair

*Advance Material:*

*Please watch **/The Acting Class/ (Inside Film 2017) in advance of the 
conference:*

https://theactingclass.info/ <https://theactingclass.info/>

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