EMSAH Seminar | Celevision: The Mobilizations of the Television Screen
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 19 September 2014 - Friday, 19 September 2014
- Time:
- 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
- Room:
- 601
- UQ Location:
- Michie Building (St Lucia)
- URL:
- http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/emsah-seminars
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Stormy Wehi
- Phone:
- 51412
- Email:
- s.wehi@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Communication and Arts
Event Description
- Full Description:
- Recent transformations to the television screen – in its size, sites and content – have been as confidently predicted as they have been carefully monitored. Associated transformations to television celebrity, by contrast, have crept upon us largely unforeseen. As television technology diversifies across a range of delivery platforms while multiple media deliverables converge on the TV screen, these developments are having undoubted impact on the way that celebrity is displayed, produced and distributed by and through the televisual medium. This talk aims to track the technological transformations of the television screen and of the television celebrity in relation to one another, asking how it is that TV’s textual, social and industrial patterns of producing and maintaining celebrity are aligned with the changing affordances of the TV screen. With the aid of case studies (notably Kim Kardashian), the talk will investigate the dynamic interactions between celebrity and TV, examining how the technological, social and affective developments of each have become intertwined.
All are welcome, this event is open to the public, staff and students. Feel free to bring your lunch with you to the seminar, if you're on your lunch break.
About the Presenter
Misha Kavka teaches film, television, and media studies at the University of Auckland. She is the author of two books on reality television, Reality Television, Affect and Intimacy (Palgrave 2008) and Reality TV (Edinburgh UP 2012), and the co-editor of Gothic New Zealand (Otago UP 2006) and of Feminist Consequences: Theory for the New Century (Columbia UP 2001).
Directions to UQ
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- Directions:
- St Lucia Campus | Gatton campus.
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