LitTVConference

5-6th May 2018
Keynotes: Michael Szalay (UCI); Stacey Abbott (Roehampton); Stephen Shapiro (Warwick)
Organizers: Arin Keeble (Ed. Napier); Sam Thomas (Durham)

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#Littv2018 :Thanks to ALL participants @READEnglish @ArtsEdNapier @OfficialBAAS @StaceyAbbottRU @Sarah_Jane_Artt @shapirostephen @MahonConf2014 @SimonBrownku @mariaelenactq @painsthee @vickimmadden @robzker @rachelizasykes @situationniste @EllenBobTurner @dradny @RachMcLennan

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#littv2018 followers, speakers and delegates will no doubt be interested in @poetryandtv @FCW_UoB !

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Szalay discusses ‘Queen Sugar’ and linear/cyclical narrative constructions in black melodrama and the ability or inability to move forward - ‘reconstruction never ends’ as ‘Queen Sugar’ references slavery which is continues through US mass incarceration culture #littv2018

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Szalay: TV represents the link between industry and family roles by exploring how the rise of industry forces gender roles to dissolve. This introduces the ‘hyperpractical female partner’ and forces the family to become ‘a small business’ #littv2018

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Dr. Szalay closes the conference with an interesting exploration of mobility in comtemporary US TV - the problem between a cyclical narrative & linear progression becomes a dominant trope in television after ‘The Sopranos’ #littv2018

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Closing today’s Lit-TV Symposium is Professor Michael Szalay discussing ‘Slow Growth Television’ #littv2018

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Questions for teaching television: how do we define “high brow” or “low brow” television and how much do we want to engage in “low brow” television? #littv2018

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Opening the second half of our #littv2018 with a Roundtable Discussion on Teaching ‘Literary’ Television with a panel comprised of Professor Michael Szalay, Dr Christopher T. Gullen and Dr Ariane Hudelet & chaired by Dr Tara Thompson!

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Interesting comments from @EllenBobTurner on recurring theme of meat in #HOC as affirming it as an inseparable proponent of masculinity & it’s engagement with sexual politics as well as governing politics as character of Frank Underwood consumes his political enemies #littv2018

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Dr Ellen Turner is next from our ‘Crossing Boundaries’ panel with, ‘Meat, masculinity and power: Carnivory as metaphor in House of Cards’ #littv2018 @EllenBobTurner

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Dr. Thomson looking at how the gaze is adapted from book to TV through experimentation with avant-garde scenes and the characterisation of ‘Dick’ in the body of Hollywood’s favourite supporting actor Kevin Bacon #kevinbacon #ilovedick #littv2018

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Opening the third panel of the day, ‘Crossing Boundaries’ is Napier’s very own Dr. Tara Thomson @situationniste with ‘“These Letters Weren’t Meant For You’: I Love Dick and the Avant Garde on TV’ #littv2018

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Brown discusses how the plot of the television adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Under the Dome’ infidels from the King original, yet creates new characterisations which maintains the definition of Kings writing, a style which heavily revolves around characterisation #littv2018

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Opening our second panel of the day, ‘Intertexts, Adaptations & Escapes’ is Dr. Ariane Hudelet with ‘The History of True Crime in the Midwest: Writing, Intertextuality, and the Chronotope in Fargo’ #littv2018

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Dr. Brown, “the event series is the new paradigm for the literary in television” #littv2018 @SimonBrownku

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Dr Simon Brown is up with, ‘From Infidelity Comes Fidelity: Stephen King’s Under the Dome as Serial Television’ #littv2018 #stephenking #serialtelevision @SimonBrownku

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Ravasi looks at the place of escapism through fantasy in ‘Stranger Things’ as a tool for navigating the characters reality as well as creating intertextual aesthetics and a metadigetic narrative - “escapism becomes a double-edged sword” #littv2018

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Next up is Mattia Ravasi with his paper ‘Lost in the Upside Down: Stranger Things and the Question of Escapism’ #littv2018

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Dr Hudelet explores how Fargo questions the possibility of an immovable text through the use of intertexts and the viewers role in the construction of meaning #littv2018

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