Programme / program - 5-7 juin 2014 - "The Cold War & Entertainment Television"
THE COLD WAR AND ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Amphithéâtre, Archives Nationales, Métro St Denis Université
9:00 Opening of conference
SESSION #1 : CONTROLLING THE MESSAGE, SOVIET-STYLE
Chair : André Filler, Paris 8
9:30 “Divertissements étrangers à la télévision soviétique : dosage et censure”
Anatoly Tokmakov, Université de Caen, France
9:50 “‘Le droit d’inventaire’ de la culture occidentale quotidienne dans les séries télévises soviétiques de la ‘guerre froide’”
Gueorgui Chepelev, INALCO, France
10:10 Questions
10:40 Break
SESSION #2 : CONTROLLING THE MESSAGE, AMERICAN-STYLE
Chair : Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Paris 8
11:00 “The Adventures of Robin Hood – Outlawed in Sherwood, Banned from Hollywood”
Scott Brand, University of Zurich, Switzerland
11:20 “Comedy on the Front Lines of the Cold War : Bob Hope’s Christmas TV Specials during the Vietnam War”
Uldis Kruze, University of San Francisco, USA
11:40 “Riding the Cold War Range : From the McCarthyite to the Revisionist Western”
Dennis Broe, Long Island University, USA
12:00 Questions
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon sessions : Amphi D004, University of Paris 8
SESSION #3 : TENSIONS OF DEMOCRACY : CITIZEN AND GOVERNMENT
Chair : Janice Liedl, Laurentian University
14:00 “Treating the Nation’s Wounds : M*A*S*H, 1972-75”
Lori Maguire, Université de Paris 8, France
14:20 “Britain’s Last Cold War Series : A Very British Coup”
Tony Shaw, University of Hertfordshire, UK
14:40 “The Nuclear Missile that Harrods would Sell You : Yes, Prime Minister as Cold War Satire”
Shannon Granville, Woodrow Wilson Center, USA
15:00 Questions
15:30 Pause
SESSION #4 : TENSIONS OF COMMUNISM : DAILY LIFE
Chair : Cécile Vaissié, Rennes II
15:50 “Real Socialism, Socialist Realism : Representing Soviet Normality in Day after Day”
Simon Huxtable, Loughborough University, UK
16:10 “Comparing Socialist Entertainment : Popular Television Series in Yugoslavia and the USSR”
Sabina Mihelj, Loughborough University, UK
16:30 Questions
17:00 KEYNOTE #1 : “This World Beyond : The Image of the West in Soviet TV-Series”
Jan Levchenko, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
Reception
Friday, 6 June
Amphithéâtre, Archives Nationales, Métro St Denis Université
SESSION #5 : LOOKING AT THE OTHER SIDE : THE WEST
Chair : Joe Darowski, Brigham Young Idaho
9 : 30 “Hawaii Five-O and the Cold War in Paradise : Wo Fat, Steve McGarrett, and the Chinese Threat in American Television”
Joseph Constance, St. Anselm College, USA
9:50 “Communists or Cylons ? Soviet Shadows in Western Science Fiction Television”
Janice Liedl, Laurentian University, Canada
10:10 Questions
10:40 Break
SESSION #6 : LOOKING AT THE OTHER SIDE : COMMUNISM
Chair : André Filler, Paris 8
11:00 “La représentation contrastée de l’Occident, dans la série 17 moments de printemps”
Cécile Vaissié, Université de Rennes 2, France
11:20 “The Reception of American Entertainment Television in China in the 1980s”
Shuxi Yin, Heifei University of Technology, China
11:40 “Image-Making in TASS is Authorized to Declare.”
Jonathan Ludwig, Rice University, USA
12:00 Questions
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon Sessions : Amphi D004, University of Paris 8
SESSION #7 : THE COLD WAR IN BROADER CONTEXT
Chair : Joe Darowski, Brigham Young Idaho
14:00 “Czechoslovak Documentary Film Propaganda in the Cold War Context 1948-1989”
Katerina Brezinova, Metropolitan University, Prague, Czech Republic
14:20 “The South African Broadcasting Corporation and the War in Angola”
Monica Popescu, McGill University, Canada
14:40 “Imagined Geographies of the USIS Television Shows in the 1960s’ South Korea”
Han Sang Kim, Harvard University, USA
15:00 Questions
15:30 Break
SESSION #8 : MACHO MYSTERIES : THE COLD WAR AND GENDER
Chair : Nancy Reagin, Pace University
15:50 “Call Five-O a White Male Imperialist Fantasy : Steve McGarrett as a Vision of American Cold War Masculinity, Race and Empire”
Michael Vann, Sacramento State University, USA
16:10 “The End of the Cold War Masquerade : Magical Women on TV, 1964-2003”
Anne Rubenstein, York University, Canada
16:30 Questions
17:00 KEYNOTE #2 : “‘A Long Twilight Struggle’ : Entertainment Television Fights the Cold War, 1948-1991”
Rick Worland, Southern Methodist University, USA
Reception
-Saturday, 7 June
Amphi D004, University of Paris 8
SESSION #9 : NATIONAL AIMS AND AUDIENCES
Chair : Cécile Vaissié, Rennes II
9:30 “La musique à la télévision nationale roumaine : entre glorification nationale et démarcation occidentale”
Irène Costelian, Université Montesquieu Bordeaux 4, France
9:50 “Entertainment Television in Cuba : An Ethnographic Consideration of Programs and Practices”
Anna Cristina Pertierra, University of Queensland, Australia
10:10 “Soviet Television, Popular Culture and Cold War Entertainment”
Kirsten Bönker, Bielefeld University, Germany
10:30 Questions
11:00 Break
SESSION #10 : EAST VS WEST IN GERMAN TELEVISION CULTURES
Chair : Lori Maguire, Paris 8
11:20 “Socialist Indians, Capitalist Cowboys : the Ideologies of Westerns in East and West Germany."
Nancy Reagin, Pace University, USA
11:40 “Playing Socialist Games : The East German Show ‘Together It’s Fun’ and Alternatives to Consumption”
Laura Honsburger, New York University, USA
12:00 “Social Images of Poverty – Social Inequality and the Construction of Otherness in GDR Television (1960s to 1980s)”
Christoph Lorke, University of Muenster, Germany
12:20 Questions
12:50 Lunch
Afternoon Sessions : Amphi D004, University of Paris 8
SESSION #11 : SMALL SCREEN SPIES AND WARRIORS
Chair : Janice Liedl, Laurentian University
14:30 “Ninjas, Spies, and Cold Warriors : Rethinking Japanese Children’s Television as Cold War Culture”
Michael Baskett, University of Kansas, USA
14:50 "Politiser le mal : figure d’espion dans les (télé)films policiers soviétiques des années 1950-1970"
André Filler, Université de Paris 8, France
15:10 “Prime Time Cold Warriors : American Cold War Policies and Stances in TV War Dramas Combat ! And The Rat Patrol”
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine, USA
15:30 Questions
16:00 Break
SESSION #12 : TECHNOLOGY AND MYTHS OF PROGRESS
Chair : Nancy Reagin, Pace University
16:20 “Men into Space, the Space Race and the Cold War”
Margaret Weitekamp, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian, USA
16:50 "Propaganda and the Atomic Age : The Adventures of Superman and American Cold War Rhetoric."
Joseph Darowski, Brigham Young University Idaho, USA
17:10 Questions
17:30 Conference Conclusion
Gala Dinner Bistro Melrose, Place de Clichy, Paris
Contact address : lori.maguire@univ-paris8.fr