{"id":1016,"date":"2015-11-25T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:28:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:28:50","slug":"research-seminar-ruth-deller-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/research-seminar-ruth-deller-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 25 November 2015 – Lunchtime seminar with Dr Ruth Deller (Communication, SHU)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title: Soap opera anniversaries as media events
\nSpeaker: Dr Ruth Deller<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

2015 has seen three soap operas celebrate major anniversaries: EastEnders’ 30th, Neighbours’ 30th and Hollyoaks’ 20th. Recent years have also seen milestone anniversaries for Coronation Street and Emmerdale, whilst soap-like drama Casualty is currently gearing up for its 30th anniversary in 2016.<\/p>\n

In this presentation, I analyse the way soap operas turn anniversaries into \u2018media events\u2019. Drawing on Matt Hills\u2019 analysis of Doctor Who anniversaries (2013\/2015), Jonathan Gray\u2019s discussion of promotional paratexts (2010), Amy Holdsworth\u2019s analysis of media and nostalgia (2011) and Dayan and Katz\u2019s notion of media events (1994), I discuss the way these soaps – which are often overlooked in contemporary discussions and analyses of media, in favour of newer genres \u2013 have attempted to reposition themselves in public consciousness by making their anniversaries \u2018event television\u2019 through a combination of social media \u2018play\u2019 (Deller 2014), nostalgic remembering and creative use of cross-media and cross-soap promotions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By presenting these events as sites for celebration and engagement beyond just the regular viewership, soap producers and broadcasters attempt to create sites of \u2018maximum liveness\u2019 (Bourdon 2000). This is particularly in the case of live episodes, usually featuring key reveals, character deaths and plot twists. These were heavily promoted as being sites of engagement beyond the text through \u2018second screen\u2019 viewing and commentary on Twitter, Instagram and other social media \u2013 key reveals and fluffed lines all thus become part of the appeal of the live event and, particularly, performances of audiencehood, through recirculation of humorous comments and memes (Deller 2011; Harrington 2013; Bell and Deller 2016). In this way, the soap operas seek to not only to mark the passage of a key period of time, but to position them, once more, as the things that \u2018everybody\u2019s talking about\u2019.<\/p>\n

1.00PM \u2013 2.00PM
\nWEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2015
\nCANTOR 9223<\/strong><\/p>\n

See here<\/a> for details of other seminars in the series.<\/p>\n

All SHU staff and students are welcome to attend the C3RI Lunchtime Research Seminars. If you are from outside of the University and would like to attend a seminar, please email C3RI Administrator<\/a> to arrange entry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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