University of Reading: Wednesday 18 – Friday 20
September 2013
The
culminating conference arising from the AHRC ‘Spaces of Television’ project
will be held at the University of Reading from Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th
September, 2013. Proposals are invited
for papers and/or panels on the theme of ‘Spaces of Television: Production,
Site and Style’. The project is about television fiction produced in the UK
from 1955-94. It analyses how the material spaces of production (in TV studios
and on location) conditioned the aesthetic forms of programmes. We are
interested in how fictional spaces represented on the screen across a range of
drama during this period negotiated the opportunities and constraints of studio
and exterior space, film and video technologies, and live-ness and recording.
While we
particularly welcome papers that specifically address British TV drama during
this period, we will also consider comparative perspectives concerning dramas
from other television industries, import/export, transnational exchange,
co-productions and spatially-themed studies of earlier or later dramas.
Possible
topics include but are not limited to:
The institutional and aesthetic relationships
between the spaces of television production (studio, location) and dramas’
social, political and cultural meanings.
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 television dramatists, actors,
directors, producers, designers, or other production staff focusing on
mise-en-scene and issues of space.
The relationship between television dramatic
space and performance, and the social and cultural meanings of performance in
different spatial and aesthetic contexts.
Analysis of the dramatic conventions of
television genres and their realisation through the use of space and
mise-en-scene.
The spatial significance of particular
production techniques and/or special effects in television drama.
Proposals for 20 minute papers in the form of a
250 words abstract
(or outline of a three person panel) should be submitted to Dr Billy Smart
(w.r.smart@reading.ac.uk) by Friday 25
January 2013.
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
Glamorgan.
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