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University of Sussex, Brighton
Tuesday 1st - Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Keynote Speakers
Will Straw
Professor of Communications in the Department of Art History and Communications at McGill University, Montreal ( Quebec). He is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America (2006), and the forthcoming Popular Music: Scenes and Sensibilities, as well as over 60 articles on film music, media and cultural studies. He serves on the editorial boards of Screen, Cultural Studies, Culture, Theory and Critique, Space and Culture and the Canadian Journal of Communication.
Mandy Merck
Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London, she is a former Editor of the British film and television journal Screen and Series Editor for Channel 4's magazine series 'Out On Tuesday'. Her books include Perversions: Deviant Readings (1993), In Your Face: Nine Sexual Studies (2000), The Art of Tracey Emin (co-edited with Chris Townsend, 2002), and more recently, Hollywood's American Tragedies: Dreiser, Eisenstein, Sternberg, Stevens (Berg, 2007) and the edited collection America First: Naming the Nation in US Film (Routledge, 2007).
Dave Cawley
For almost two decades, Fat Cat records has been working at the cutting-edge of popular music, discovering and signing talented artists and bands from all over the world (Sigùr Ros, Mùm, Animal Collective, David Grubbs, to name just a few), some of which would later attract the attention of major labels such as EMI. Founding member of Fat Cat, Dave Cawley will speak of the ways in which his label has had to adapt to the current multimedia context, and will provide an insider reflection on the future tracks of the popular music industry.
Caroline Bassett
Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex. She has published widely on narrative and new media, media innovation and the transformation of everyday life. Manchester University Press has recently published her book The Arc and the Machine: Narrative and New Media.
Niki Strange
Niki has been researching the emergence of 360-degree commissioning and multi-platform content for her DPhil at the University of Sussex (to be completed by the time of the conference). Her background is in arts and factual independent television production, working on over twenty hours of broadcast television for the BBC, Channel 4 and PBS in the US.
Yoram Allon
Yoram Allon is the editorial director of the successful publisher Wallflower Press, home of independent specialist publishing across the full spectrum of cinema and the moving image. Wallflower is devoted to the publication of the highest-quality academic and popular literature in film, television and media studies as well as related areas of the visual arts, and publishes over thirty new titles each year.
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