2010 MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference
Programme for MeCCSA-PGN 2010 Conference
Wolfson Medical School Building, University of Glasgow [PDF campus map]
Wednesday 30th June
09: 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)