Cultures of British Television Drama - Timetable
TUESDAY 13TH SEPTEMBER
Arrival/registration/coffee – Foyer of Bob Kaley Studio - 3-3.30
Opening keynote session - ‘Cultures of British Television Drama: Histories’ - Bob Kaley Studio - 3.30-5.30
Jason Jacobs – Title TBC
John Caughie – Title TBC
Welcome drinks and book launch for Catherine Johnson and Rob Turnock’s ITV Cultures: Independent Television Over Fifty Years (Oxford University Press, 2005) – Studio One – 5.45-7
Dinner – Bulmershe cafeteria – 7-8
Bar - Open from 8-1
WEDNESDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER
Breakfast – Bulmershe cafeteria - 8-9
Plenary Panel 1 – Industrial change and TV drama aesthetics – Bob Kaley Studio - 9-10.30
John Ellis - UK drama series costs and production values: The step change of the late 1970s
Mark Fremaux - The Interaction between the film and television industries and the use of film for television production
Julia Hallam - Equal Opportunists: The rise of the writer producer in the 1990s
Coffee Break: 10.30-11
Parallel Panels 1a & 1b 11-12.30
Panel 1a: Genres of fantasy, 1960-82 – Bob Kaley Studio – Catherine Johnson? (chair)
Jonathan Bignell - ‘Transatlantic Style: Television and Mise-en-Scene in Filmed UK Action Series’
Helen Wheatley - The house that bled to death: domestic horror in the 1970s and 80s
Nickianne Moody - Quatermass and the Representation of Social Malaise for a Popular Audience
Panel 1b: Questions of Authorship – Room B 147
Andy Willis - Beyond Days of Hope: Jim Allen and the history of television drama
Kara McKechnie - Hopeless in Halifax, helpless in Hartlepool: The Writer in Disguise - Alan Bennett’s and Stephen Frears’ collaborations for LWT
Peter Billingham - ‘I ‘ad Popular Audience Ratings in the back of my cab, yer know!’ Reflections upon the issues of concepts of the ‘Popular’, the ‘Serious’ and the ‘Single Author’ in British television drama in the context of Tony Marchant’s Take Me Home.(BBC 1, 1989)
Lunch – Bulmershe cafeteria - 1-2
Parallel Panels 2a & 2b – 2-3
Panel 2a: Producing children’s drama – Bob Kayley Studio
Karen Lury - Shoebox Zoo: packaging myths of childhood and nationalism
Val Williamson - Starting from Scratch: Watching The Tribe evolve with Channel Five, 1999-2003
Panel 2b: Feminist approaches to the medical drama – Room B 147
Sara Steinke - How I learned to stop worrying and love television medical drama: online fandom and television medical drama
Christina Adamou - No Angels, no heroes: Undermining gender stereotypes
Coffee: 3-3.30
Parallel Panels 3a & 3b - 3.30-5
Panel 3a: Experimental television drama – Bob Kaley Studio
Jamie Sexton - Experimental Television, Talking to a Stranger and Multi-Perspective Narration
Paul Long - ‘A radical departure for the BBC’? ‘Gangsters’: The meanings, possibilities and memory of regional drama
Paweł Schreiber - The Truth Beyond Words and Pictures?: Historical representation in Tom Stoppard’s Squaring the Circle
Panel 3b: Representing cultural identity – B 147
Darrell Newton - Undue Drama: British Television and the Taboo of Sexual Miscegenation
Andrew Hill - Northern Ireland and Pre-Troubles Television Drama
Marcus Free - The Problematics of Space, Class, and Gender in Roddy Doyle’s Writing for Television and Film
Reflection on the research project Cultures of British Television Drama, 1960-82 - 5.10-5.45 – Bob Kaley Studio
Reception and book launch for Jonathan Bignell and Stephen Lacey’s Popular Television Drama: Critical Perspectives (Manchester University Press, 2005) – Studio One - 5.45-6.45
Conference Dinner – Bulmershe cafeteria - 7-8
Bar: 8-1
THURSDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER
Breakfast – Bulmershe cafeteria - 8-9
Plenary Panel 2 – New approaches to social realism 1 – Bob Kaley Studio 9-10.30
Karen Shepherdson - Dramatisation and Appropriation of the Demotic Voice.
Stephen Lacey – Title TBC
Lez Cooke - A ‘New Wave’ in British Television Drama
Coffee – Bulmershe cafeteria - 10.30-11
Parallel Panels 4a & 4b - New approaches to social realism 2/British science fiction television 11-12.30
Panel 4a - New approaches to social realism 2 – Bob Kaley Studio
Glen Creeber - ‘The Truth is Out There – Not!’: morality, politics and contemporary social realism in Shameless
Amy McNulty - Postmodern style, realist intent: The internal contradictions of Shameless.
Helen Piper - ‘Figurability and class in recent British television drama’
Panel 4b - British science fiction television – Room B 147 – Jonathan Bignell (chair)
James Chapman - Quatermass and the origins of British television science fiction
John R. Cook - The Age of Aquarius: Utopia and Anti-Utopia in BritishScience FictionTelevision of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s
Peter Wright - Echoes of Discontent: Conservative Politics and Sapphire and Steel
Lunch – Bulmershe cafeteria - 1-2
Closing keynote session – ‘Cultures of British Television Drama: Drama Today’ – Bob Kaley Studio - 2-4
Robin Nelson - British Television Cultures in the ‘Noughties’: a paradigm shift?
Christine Geraghty - Television Drama – viewing, writing, teaching
Coffee – Bulmershe cafeteria - 4-4.30