Fall 2019 Speaker Series

Dr Amy Holdsworth (Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow)

When: Wednesday, 2 October 2019, 3pm to 5pm
Where: Film Studies Boardroom

‘Vanessa Feltz’s Grandma’: Television Time, Textuality and Everyday Life’

In this paper I will reflect on some of the theoretical ideas regarding time, textuality and the everyday that underpin television studies scholarship and that I have returned to in the writing of my current monograph (Patterns of Feeling: On Living with Television, Duke University Press, forthcoming). Drawing upon the feminist legacies within the discipline I will consider the continued significance of the domestic and the everyday for television studies, arguing that the current critical lexicon of ‘complex’, ‘linear/non-linear’ and ‘cinematic’ neglects the continued ‘messy vitality’ (Mellencamp) of television as it accompanies our domestic lives. In particular, I will draw upon episode six of Russell T. Davies’ 2015 series Cucumber (from which title of this paper is drawn) to illustrate the patterns of feeling that emerge in our temporal and textual experiences of the medium.  

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Professor Helen Hanson (Associate Professor in Film History, University of Exeter), title TBC

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Dr Liz Greene (Reader in Film and Sonic Arts, Liverpool Screen School Liverpool John Moores University), ‘Sound (re)placed: Postproduction tensions during the making of The Elephant Man (1980)’ 

When: Wednesday, 18 November 2019, 3pm to 5pm
Where: Film Studies Boardroom