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You may be aware of a BBC Trust project being conducted at CCI by Professor Steve Blandford, Professor Stephen Lacey, Dr. Ruth McElroy and Dr. Rebecca Williams on the topic of ‘Screening The Nation: Wales and Landmark Television'.
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We are collecting questionnaire responses to representations of Wales, primarily in Doctor Who and Torchwood. We therefore invite anyone who is interested to complete an online questionnaire for the project which can be found at
We hope that some of you will be able to take part in this research and we look forward to reading some of your responses. We also encourage you to pass these links onto anyone else who might be interested.
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Dr. Rebecca Williams
Research Assistant
Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Adoration of Beauty and the Grotesque, on the World Wide Web.
Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called William Blake Spirituality: Toward a Theory of Horoscopes, Tarot and Tomorrow's Tea Leaves, on the World Wide Web.
Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Courage 2 Create, on the World Wide Web.
Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Grace-filled Empty Spaces, on the World Wide Web.
Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh-American Family Genealogy, on the World Wide Web.
Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Welsh Music, Film, and Books Symposium, on the World Wide Web.
Click here to go directly to my personal blog page called Celtic Cult Cinema on the World Wide Web.
As you may know, we are hosting a one-day conference on the ground-breaking TV series Life on Mars in the Faculty on Friday 16th November.
A highlight will be a discussion with two of the executive producers of the series (Claire Parker from Kudos and Julie Gardner from BBC Wales) in the afternoon.
Many thanks – and look forward to seeing some of you there.
Stephen swlacey[at]glam[dot]ac[dot]uk
Professor Stephen Lacey Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries/Ysgol Diwydiannau Creadigol a Diwylliannol Caerdydd University of Glamorgan/Prifysgol Morgannwg ATRiuM Adam St/Heol Adam Cardiff/Caerdydd CF24 2XF
Life on Mars One-day symposium Friday 16th November 2007
CCI researchers are hosting a one-day research symposium on the ground-breaking and critically-acclaimed BBC Wales/Kudos drama series Life on Mars, which finished its second, and final, series earlier this year.
"Starsky and Hutch meets Cracker...intriguing British drama" The Toronto Sun
"...brilliant detective-noir" The National Post
‘Life on Mars’ will attract academics from across the UK for what is the first research event devoted to a drama series that has emerged as one of the most significant of the 21st century.
STOP PRESS! Both Claire Parker and Jane Featherstone of Kudos have confirmed their attendance
Life on Mars Series 2 Trailer x2
The conference will open with a keynote address by Professor Robin Nelson, whose book on ‘quality’ television drama (A State of Play, MUP, 2007) has recently been published, and will close with a panel discussion with some of the leading figures behind the series; so far, Claire Parker of Kudos, who produced Life on Mars, Julie Gardner, Head of Drama for BBC Wales who commissioned it, and Ashley Pharoah, one of the series’ devisers and main writers, have provisionally agreed to attend.
Papers will be given on a range of topics, including the role of nostalgia in audiences’ responses to the series, the re-working of the iconography of the 1970s, the programme’s relationship to other police series and the role of the uncanny.
The symposium is organised by Dr Ruth McElroy and Professor Stephen Lacey, and will be one of the first research events to be held in the Atrium, the University of Glamorgan’s new base in Cardiff.
Life on Mars One-day symposium Friday 16th November 2007
Panel 1: Sam’s Stories - Narrative and Genre Panel 2: Producing Audiences for the Past
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:15 Discussion with members of the production team: Julie Gardner (BBC Wales) Claire Walker and Jane Featherstone (Kudos) Ashley Pharoah (writer)
3:15-3:30 Tea
3:30-5:00 Panels 3 and 4 Panel 3: Nostalgia and the Uncanny Media Panel 4: Locating the 1970s
Life on Mars Panels
Panel 1: Sam’s Stories - Narrative and Genre Nichola Dobson (??) ‘Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?’ Generic and narrative complexity in Life on Mars
Karen Devlin (University of Hull) Voices Bleeding Through: The Strange Journey of Sam Tyler in Life on Mars
Ross Garner (Cardiff University) Make Another World: Expressing the Nostalgia Affect in the Diegesis and Narrative of Life on Mars
Angelina Karpovich (Brunel University) Life on Mars and the Dialectic of Suicide
Panel 2: Producing Audiences for the Past John Cook (Glasgow Caledonian University) ‘Moonage Daydreams’: Industrial and Cultural Memory contexts of Life on Mars
Brett Mills (University of East Anglia) ‘American Remake – Shudder’: Online Debates about Life on Mars and ‘Britishness’
Justine Mortimer (University of Winchester) ‘Knowing’ Quality: Exploiting Popular Cultural Capital, and Producerly and Audience Expectations
Panel 3: Nostalgia and the Uncanny Media Matt Hills (Cardiff University) The Media is the Monster…or the Message? Uncanny Test Cards and Interactive OU Lecturers in Life on Mars
Elisa Oliver (Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London) Longing to Return-Seeing the 1970s. Life on Mars: Britain, Nostalgia and Art
Peter Jachimiak (University of Glamorgan) ‘Through the TV Screen’ – The Test Card Girl, the Uncanny and a ‘70s Childhood
Panel 4: Locating the 1970s Teresa Forde (University of Derby) Location, Location, Location: What does the 1970s look like?
John Curzon (University of Warwick) Sam Tyler and the New North
Andy Willis (University of Salford) Memory Banks Failing! Life on Mars and the politics of re-imagining the 1970s
CCI researchers are hosting a one-day research symposium on the ground-breaking and critically-acclaimed BBC Wales/Kudos drama series Life on Mars, which finished its second, and final, series earlier this year.
"Starsky and Hutch meets Cracker...intriguing British drama" The Toronto Sun
"...brilliant detective-noir" The National Post
‘Life on Mars’ will attract academics from across the UK for what is the first research event devoted to a drama series that has emerged as one of the most significant of the 21st century.
STOP PRESS! Both Claire Parker and Jane Featherstone of Kudos have confirmed their attendance
Life on Mars Series 2 Trailer x2
The conference will open with a keynote address by Professor Robin Nelson, whose book on ‘quality’ television drama (A State of Play, MUP, 2007) has recently been published, and will close with a panel discussion with some of the leading figures behind the series; so far, Claire Parker of Kudos, who produced Life on Mars, Julie Gardner, Head of Drama for BBC Wales who commissioned it, and Ashley Pharoah, one of the series’ devisers and main writers, have provisionally agreed to attend.
Papers will be given on a range of topics, including the role of nostalgia in audiences’ responses to the series, the re-working of the iconography of the 1970s, the programme’s relationship to other police series and the role of the uncanny.
The symposium is organised by Dr Ruth McElroy and Professor Stephen Lacey, and will be one of the first research events to be held in the Atrium, the University of Glamorgan’s new base in Cardiff.
Life on Mars One-day symposium Friday 16th November 2007
Panel 1: Sam’s Stories - Narrative and Genre Panel 2: Producing Audiences for the Past
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:15 Discussion with members of the production team: Julie Gardner (BBC Wales) Claire Walker and Jane Featherstone (Kudos) Ashley Pharoah (writer)
3:15-3:30 Tea
3:30-5:00 Panels 3 and 4 Panel 3: Nostalgia and the Uncanny Media Panel 4: Locating the 1970s
Life on Mars Panels
Panel 1: Sam’s Stories - Narrative and Genre Nichola Dobson (??) ‘Am I mad, in a coma, or back in time?’ Generic and narrative complexity in Life on Mars
Karen Devlin (University of Hull) Voices Bleeding Through: The Strange Journey of Sam Tyler in Life on Mars
Ross Garner (Cardiff University) Make Another World: Expressing the Nostalgia Affect in the Diegesis and Narrative of Life on Mars
Angelina Karpovich (Brunel University) Life on Mars and the Dialectic of Suicide
Panel 2: Producing Audiences for the Past John Cook (Glasgow Caledonian University) ‘Moonage Daydreams’: Industrial and Cultural Memory contexts of Life on Mars
Brett Mills (University of East Anglia) ‘American Remake – Shudder’: Online Debates about Life on Mars and ‘Britishness’
Justine Mortimer (University of Winchester) ‘Knowing’ Quality: Exploiting Popular Cultural Capital, and Producerly and Audience Expectations
Panel 3: Nostalgia and the Uncanny Media Matt Hills (Cardiff University) The Media is the Monster…or the Message? Uncanny Test Cards and Interactive OU Lecturers in Life on Mars
Elisa Oliver (Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London) Longing to Return-Seeing the 1970s. Life on Mars: Britain, Nostalgia and Art
Peter Jachimiak (University of Glamorgan) ‘Through the TV Screen’ – The Test Card Girl, the Uncanny and a ‘70s Childhood
Panel 4: Locating the 1970s Teresa Forde (University of Derby) Location, Location, Location: What does the 1970s look like?
John Curzon (University of Warwick) Sam Tyler and the New North
Andy Willis (University of Salford) Memory Banks Failing! Life on Mars and the politics of re-imagining the 1970s
