| 2010 MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference |
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30 June - 1 July, hosted by the Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland Programme for MeCCSA-PGN 2010 ConferenceWolfson Medical School Building, University of Glasgow [PDF campus map] Wednesday 30th June09: 30 - 10:00 Conference Registration (with tea/coffee and scones) (Atrium)
10:00- 11:30 Session A
Making History: Constructing National Identities (Yudowitz Seminar Room) Chair: HelenWright Maria Antonia Velez-Serna: Programming practices and filmsupply in Scotland Before WorldWar I Elizabeth Rawitsch: Mapping Frank Capra's "United States ofthe World": The Role Of the Far East in theConstruction of American Identity Jennifer Mooney: Ireland and the Irish in AmericanVaudeville and Early Cinema 1880-1920
Historicising Performance: Tracing Changes in BritishActing Styles (HughFraser Seminar Room) Chair: Laura Bissell Richard Hewett: Changes in Acting Style in BritishTelevision Drama since 1960 Trevor Rawlins: Professional Actor Training in the Age ofUncertainty: The Adaptation of training methodologies to the dominance of the screen In the working life of the actor
Searching the Archives: Putting Regional Television backon the Map (Gannochy Seminar Room) Chair: Lynn Whitaker Julie Ives: Can you see the join?: Looking for continuityand change in ITV regional Programming in theMidlands, 1975-85 Orla Lafferty: An archival exploration of UTV and itsrepresentation of the Troubles From 1968-1998 Gillian Murray: Finding ‘news' of working women in thechanging media landscape of the Midlands, 1950-80
11: 45- 12: 45 Plenary (Yudowitz) Professor Christine Geraghty : ‘"Who speaks and to whom?": in defence of Media Studies'
12: 45 -13: 45 Lunch (Atrium) Poster Display: Sally Broughton-Micova/ Rachael Flynn/ AnnaDraniewicz Shannon Magness: Film Screening (Yudowitz)
13: 45- 15: 15 Session B
Transformations of the Monstrous (Yudowitz) Chair: Alexia Smit Kat Hughes: ‘I Go Both Ways': Queer Romance in Teen Horror Films Rachel Mizsei-Ward: Plushies, Carl Cthulhu and Chibithulu: The Transformation of Cthulhu from Horrific Body to Cute Body Rachel Cohen: Cinematic Constructions of the Female Serial Killer: A Psychosocial Audience Study
Politics and Propaganda: Analysing Global News Coverage (HughFraser) Chair: Chris Buckle Chen Li: Constructing the news narratives in our minds: acomparative study of Perceived news values and British media coverage of 2008 Tibet Riots Shelley Thompson: News about Nanotechnology: a framing study of The Guardian And New York Times' Reporting since the 1980s Florian Zollman: Mediating Massacres?: A comparativeanalysis of German press Coverage of the Racak and Fallujah incidents Shalini Sharma: Politics of Body Spectacle: old movementscreating new(s) stories
Space and Performance From Gardens to Cities (Gannochy) Chair: Maria Antonia Velez-Serna Douglas MacNaughton: Imperial Spaces: I, Claudius andConstructing the Eternal City at White City Lavinia Brydon: Gardener's Question Time: Is the garden acinematic space to rival that of the City? Lin Feng: The Construction of Cosmopolitan Citizenship inChow Yun-fat's Comedies
15: 15- 15: 30 Coffee/Tea Break (Atrium)
15: 30-17: 00 Session C
Documenting the Past (Yudowitz) Chair: Maggie Sweeney Patricia Prieto-Blanco: Familial Photography as a Performative Construction Jolene Mairs: Unheard Voices: Audio Visual Recordings of Memories from the Troubles in Northern Ireland Shannon Magness: Doppelganger! Mis-taken Identity and Self-Alienation in Autobiographical Documentary Pawas Bisht: The Testimonial Subject as TransitionalArtefact: Rhetorical Witnessing In Documentary Representations of the Bhopal Gas Disaster
Negotiating Narrative and Image (Hugh Fraser) Chair: SarahWylie Chris Buckle: ‘Raw Footage' in the War on Terror Lyle Skains & Amy Chambers: Visualising the Story fromText to Screen: Application of Film Adaptation Techniques to Digital Fiction Vincent M. Gaine: Look at the Shiny Shiny! : NarrativeDeficiencies and Visual Pleasures in Avatar
Public Relations (Gannochy) Chair: TBC Zeti Azreen Ahmad: The role of public relations (PR) incorporate social Responsibility Suttanipa Srisai: Thailand's Public Relations and ICT Lai Che Ching: Understanding sports public relations fromthe power and Foucouldian perspective
17:00- 23:00 Social Event (Glasgow University Union, 23 University Avenue) Complimentary drinks and dinner reception with pub quiz!
Thursday 1st July
09:00 -10:30 Session D
Imagining Nation on Television (Yudowitz) Chair: Susan Berridge Melanie Hoyes: "Yeah but...Am I bovvered?": Class, NationalIdentity and Youth in British Television Comedy Debra Ramsay: ‘It's not TV. It's DVD': the marketing ofmemories in the DVD of HBO's Band of Brothers Luiza Lusvarghi: Law, Urban Violence and Order: Cop Shows asa Brazilian TV Genre
Cultural Policy (Hugh Fraser) Chair: Veluree Metaveevinij Jong-Eun Chung: Combining the Third Way with the Third Wave:British discourses of ‘creativity' and the frame shift ofKorean ‘cultural industries' policy Ma Weijun: Chinese Reform TV Drama: From Propaganda toResistance Phil Ramsey: Market led, not public led: a public sphere analysis of the BBC Executive proposal document, Putting Quality First: The BBC and Public Space Ranjana Das and Max Hanska-Ahy: The interpretative task indeductive research: What aninterview can teach us about a concept
Mediating Sport On-screen : From the Olympic Games to theEnglish Premier League (Gannochy) Chair: Aimee Mollaghan Jennifer Jones: Social Media and the Olympic Games: FromVancouver to London Ira Yusof : The global mediation of football: television,branding and the English Premier League in Malaysia Ana Adi : How did the British media reflect China's humanrights record during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games?
10: 30- 10: 45 Tea/Coffee with scones (Atrium)
10:45-11:45 Plenary (Yudowitz)
Professor Philip Schlesinger: 'Academic expertise and public policy'
11:45-12:45 Lunch (Atrium) 12:00- 12: 30: Film Screening : The Online Journal of Audiovisual Thinking (Hugh Fraser) (Inge Ejbye Sorensen)
12:45- 14:15 Academic Publishing Workshop (Yudowitz) Dr. David Archibald (University of Glasgow) Rebecca Barden (BFI/Palgrave) Dr. Glyn Davis (Glasgow School of Art) Kat Hughes (eSharp Postgraduate Online Journal) Dr. Jonny Murray (Edinburgh College of Art)
14:15 - 14:30 Tea/coffee break (Atrium)
14:30-16:00 Session E
Identity in Flux: Negotiating Representations of Gender,Race and Ethnicity (Yudowitz) Chair: Heta Mulari Lei Chin Pang: Women in Wong Kar Wai's Post-Colonial HongKong Hanita Mohd. Mokhtar-Ritchie: The Melodramatic Mode and Female Representation in Yasmin Ahmad's ‘Sepet' Suzanne Passmore: Exploring Race and Ethnicity in HarryPotter Through Critical Fan Practices Antonella Palmieri: Hollywood and the Exotic Allure ofFemale Italianness: The Ethnic and GenderDynamics of 1950s America in Anna Magnani's American Persona
Mapping Music (Hugh Fraser) Chair: Nessa Johnston Markee Rambo-Hood: The Musical Logic of Postdramatic Theatre Aimee Mollaghan: The Role of the Minimalist Musical Aestheticin the Line Films of Norman McLaren Andrew Branch: Remade and Remodelled: Social Mobility, Youthand the Uses of Popular Music Bob Anderson: "We Always Got on the Guest List": The Role ofIndependent Record Shops in Glasgow's Music Scene
Online Activism : Building politicised communities? (Gannochy) Chair: KatHughes Adnan Hadzi: Why Openness Matters: The Deptford.TV project Margot Buchannon: Facebook: Not Just Another Social Networking Site Khalil Al Agha: Muslim Youths and Political Engagement inthe UK: How Social Networking websites affects the political engagement of Muslim Youths in the UK
16:15-17:15 MeCCSA-PGN Meeting (Hugh Fraser)
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