Wednesday, October 30, 2013

The Cult of Unyil, Next Week at FTM's Study Day

The Film, Television and Media Studies department at University of East Anglia is holding a Study Day on the topic of children's media culture. The event takes place Wednesday, the 6th of November, 9am-5pm. Full details below.

If you have any questions, please e-mail one of the organisers: Filipa Antunes (a.antunes@uea.ac.uk), Alec Plowman (a.plowman@uea.ac.uk) and Martin Tease (m.tease@uea.ac.uk).




Kid Culture:

Thinking Differently About Children’s Media

UEA School of Film, Television and Media Study Day

Lecture Theatre 1, Wednesday 6th November 2013, 9am - 5pm



Twitter: @KidCultureUEA #KidCultureUEA



Panel 1: 9am to 10.30am

Watching Children’s Media



Melanie Williams

Children’s Media, Adult Viewers: A study of Mumsnet and Netmums responses to

CBeebies’ Mr Bloom’s Nursery



Peter Kramer

“’A film specially suitable for children’:

The Marketing and Reception of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)”



Phyll Smith

Storm Over Children’s Film Shows:

The British Serial scandal and the children’s film movement



Break: 10.30am to 11am



Panel 2: 11am to 12.30pm

Images and Representations



Sarah Godfrey and Su Holmes

Debating the ‘family’ on CBeebies



Filipa Antunes

“Children Beware - You’re In For A Scare!”

Goosebumps and the horrors of puberty



Matt Selway

Re-evaluating Discourses on Children’s Exposure to Mental Illness on Television



Lunch Break: 12.30pm to 1.30pm



Panel 3: 1.30pm to 3pm

Children Using Media



Helena Dare-Edwards

Convergence Culture, Tween Girls and Nickelodeon



Melanie Kennedy

‘Keeping it Real’:

Narratives of Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture



Adam Scales

“Going Back to Summer Camp”:

Growing Up Gay, with Horror



Break: 3pm to 3.30pm



Panel 4: 3.30pm to 5pm

Playing With Pop Culture



Ekky Imanjaya

The Cult of Si Unyil:

From Children’s TV Puppet Show to Pop Culture Icon



Alec Plowman

“They don’t have nightmares because they’re just pieces of plastic”

Adapting Aliens for a Children’s Toy Line



Patrick Bingham

Re-Gendered Toys:

Tamagotchi and the Move towards Femaleness

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