Tabloid Culutre and Media Spectacle Symposium

Roehampton, UK, May 21, 2005

'Tabloid Culture and Media Spectacle' is the second annual symposium
organised by the Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures London. The
event will explore the evolution, parameters and new directions of tabloid
culture in order to think through its cultural and political implications –
addressing issues including politics and thhe popular, celebrity culture, media
spectacle, tabloid news, journalism and factual programming.Date: Saturday 21st May 2005 9.00am - 5.00pm


Fee: £12 or £6 for students (includes refreshments and lunch)


Venue: Chapman Hall, Southlands College, Roehampton University,
Roehampton Lane, London Sw15 5PH

Speakers:

Professor Karin Becker (Stockholm University and Linköping University)

Visual Vernaculars and the News

Professor Clive Bloom (Middlesex University)

From Jordan to Babylon

Professor Colin Sparks (Westminster University)

Popular Journalism and Tabloid Journalism: An Historical Sketch

Dr Martin Conboy (Sheffield University)

The Popular Tabloids and History

Dr Nick Couldry (London School of Economics)

Celebrity Excess and ‘Ordinary Reality’: Ritual/isation and the
Construction of Tabloid Culture

Dr Jo Littler (Middlesex University)

Celebrity CEOs and the Cultural Economy of Tabloid Intimacy

Dr Henrik Ornebring (Roehampton University)

Sexuality, Spectacle and the 19th Century Roots of Tabloid Culture

Sofia Johansson (University of Westminster)

Tabloids from an Audience Perspective: Experiences of The Sun and the Daily
Mirror

Mascha Brichta (University of Westminster)

Tabloid Readers in Germany and Great Britain

The event includes a book launch for Reality TV: Realism and Revelation by
H. Nunn and A. Biressi kindly sponsored by Wallflower Press.



Organisers: Henrik Ornebring, Heather Nunn and Anita Biressi, School of
Arts, Roehampton



For enquiries and registration please email h.ornebring@roehampton.ac.uk