Timetable: Making and Remaking Television Classics
University of Warwick
Friday 20 March 2009, Humanities building, Room H052
9.15-10.15
Registration and Coffee (concourse)
10.15-10.30
Welcome and Introduction
10.30-11.00
Keynote: Christine Geraghty - ‘Classic Television: A Matter of Time’
11.00-11.45
Panel One: 2 x 20 minute papers (Chair: Helen Wheatley)
Robin Nelson – ‘In search of firm ground and a principled position:
the “classic” and “the canon” in post postmodern times’
Kim Akass and Janet McCabe: ‘It’s Not TV, but is it a Classic?’
11.45-12.30
Discussion
12.30-1.30
Lunch (concourse)
1.30-2.30
Panel Two: 5 x 10 minute clip-based presentations (Chair: Stella
Bruzzi)
Glyn Davis: ‘Ugly Pretty, Pretty Pretty: Evaluating and Canonizing
Reality TV’
Sarita Malik: ‘King of the Ghetto’
John Corner: ‘Classic Factual’
Rebecca Barden: ‘What Counts as a Classic?’
John Caughie: ‘Loose Canons’
2.30-3.00
Discussion
3.00-3.15
Tea (concourse)
3.15-4.15
Panel Three: 3 x 20 minute papers (Chair: Karen Lury)
Jason Jacobs: ‘Deadwood and the Classic TV Western’
Helen Piper: ‘Routine longing: nostalgia and the popular “classic”’
Lez Cooke: ‘Unknown TV Classics’
4.15-5.00
Discussion
5.00-6.30
Closing, followed by Drinks Reception, sponsored by BFI/Palgrave
(Café Humanities)