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Henry Mayer Lecture 2006
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Dr Jane Roscoe, SBS
Dr Roscoe is Programme Executive at SBS Television in Australia.
Thursday 18 May 2006
5:30pm - 6:30pm
The Mayne Centre, University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus [see map] |
Making Great Television: When Theory Met Practice
Can theory and practice work together to enliven and promote television culture in Australia? This presentation will discuss the relationship between theory and practice, and how such an engagement can support innovation, experimentation, and hopefully, provide an enriched viewing experience for audiences.
Abstract
Drawing on my own experience at SBS TV, I will discuss the constantly changing face of public broadcasting and the challenges that lie ahead. In particular, I will focus on the ways in which my own work as a television scholar has shaped and supported my role in creatively shaping the SBS schedule. In doing so it will be apparent that when theory meets practice there can be innovation and excitement, as well as clashes and disappointments. Can theory and practice work together to enliven and promote television culture in Australia?
 Biography
Dr Jane Roscoe is now Programme Executive at SBS Television in Australia. She was formally the Head of the Centre for Screen Studies and Research at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, Sydney, Australia. She has taught screen studies in the UK, New Zealand and Australia. She has published extensively in the areas of documentary, mock-documentary, audiences and new television hybrids. She is the author of Documentary in New Zealand: An Immigrant Nation, and she is co-author (with Craig Hight) of Faking It: Mock-Documentary and the Subversion of Factuality (Manchester University Press, 2001).This lecture will be chaired by Professor Tom O'Regan, the publisher of MIA.
This lecture is the latest in a series of annual lectures, commemorating Professor Henry Mayer, who in 1976 founded Media International Australia.
Members of the public are invited to attend this free lecture, after which light refreshments will be served.
Enquiries to Ms Rebecca Ralph, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies.
Phone (07) 3346 9764, fax (07) 3365 7184, email admin.cccs@uq.edu.au
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