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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); line-height: 17px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); "><span style="line-height: 18px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; border-collapse: collapse; "><strong style="line-height: 14px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><h1 style="line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(76, 77, 79); font-size: 2em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.1em; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">MMCCS Public Lecture: "Psychoanalysis in/of Quality Drama: HBO’s The Sopranos and In Treatment"</h1></strong></span><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "></strong><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; "></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></span></strong></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "><span style="line-height: 18px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; border-collapse: collapse; "></span></span></strong></p><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><h4 style="line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(86, 42, 137); padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.3em; padding-left: 0px; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-transform: none; ">This is a special public lecture co-presented by the Department of Media, Music Communication and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University and the University of Wollongong, featuring visiting speaker Professor Jane Feuer from the University of Pittsburgh and is on the topic: "Psychoanalysis in/of Quality Drama: HBO's <em style="line-height: 24px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; ">The Sopranos</em> and <em style="line-height: 24px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; ">In Treatment</em>".</h4></strong></span><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "></strong><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; "></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><b style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></b></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; ">Date:</span></strong><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; "> Thursday 28 July <br style="line-height: 17px; "></span></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; ">Time:</span></strong><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; "> 6:00pm-8:00pm</span></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; ">Venue:</span></strong><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; "> <span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 13px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-style: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: 10pt; "></span></span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; display: inline !important; ">Elizabeth Bay Room</p></span><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; "></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: normal; "></span></span></strong></p><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: normal; ">Citigate Central Sydney</span></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: normal; ">169-179 Thomas Street [Opposite Central Station]</span></p>Speaker:</strong><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; "> Professor Jane Feuer (University of Pittsburgh)<br style="line-height: 17px; "> <br style="line-height: 17px; "></span><strong style="line-height: 17px; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; ">Topic:</span></strong><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; "> Psychoanalysis in/of Quality Drama: HBO's </span><em style="line-height: 17px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; ">The Sopranos</span></em><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; "> and </span><em style="line-height: 17px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; "><span style="line-height: 17px; font-size: small; ">In Treatment</span></em><br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; margin-left: 0px; "></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><u style="line-height: 17px; ">About the Topic</u><img src="http://www.arts.mq.edu.au/images/tony_and_melfi.jpeg" alt="Tony and Melfi" align="right" style="line-height: 17px; border-top-style: solid; border-right-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 1px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 1px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); max-width: 733px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Although psycho-analysis as a methodology has long been important to film theory, the television medium has long been thought to be an unsuitable object for psycho-analytic theory. On the production side of things, a similar discrepancy has existed in that films about therapy abound but fewer television shows have portrayed extended therapy sessions and these were mostly sitcoms or cases where a character in a television drama undergoes short-term psychotherapy.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">In short, psycho-analysis and psycho-dynamic therapy have rarely been associated with television either at the level of theory or that of practice. With <em style="line-height: 17px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; ">The Sopranos</em> in 1999, all of this changed. At least one form of television, which has been called "quality tv drama" started to portray actual therapy sessions in major storylines.</p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Moreover, at least two of these shows: <em style="line-height: 17px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; ">The Sopranos</em> and <em style="line-height: 17px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; ">In Treatment</em> have been described by psychoanalysts as the most realistic portrayal of their work in any medium. I hope to show that the return of psychoanalysis to television can be matched by a return of psychoanalytic theory - this time applied to the study of television. <br style="line-height: 17px; "><br style="line-height: 17px; "></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><u style="line-height: 17px; ">About the Speaker</u><br style="line-height: 17px; "></p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Jane Feuer is Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She has written books and articles on film musicals and a variety of television studies topics. </p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">This paper will be a chapter in her book on Quality TV Drama. Jane Feuer had a research appointment at Curtin University in Western Australia in 1996. In 2009-10 she was the Fulbright German Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Tuebingen. Earlier versions of this work were given on her Fulbright European lectures in Paris and Vienna.<br style="line-height: 17px; "> </p><p style="line-height: 17px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><em style="line-height: 17px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; ">For more information please contact Holly Randell-Moon</em> (<a href="mailto:holly.randell-moon@m%E2%80%8Bq.edu.au" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(86, 42, 137); line-height: 17px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 201, 200); ">holly.randell-<wbr>moon@mq.edu.au</a>)</p></span><br><span class="ecxecxecxecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><div><span class="ecxecxecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><pre style="text-indent:0in !important;white-space:normal"><span class="ecxecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><br></span></pre><pre style="text-indent:0in !important;white-space:normal"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Dr. Holly Randell-Moon</span><br>Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies<br>Faculty of Arts<br>Macquarie University, NSW 2109<br>Australia</pre><pre style="text-indent:0in !important;white-space:normal"><span class="ecxecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:monospace, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"></span></pre></span></div></span><div><span class="ecxApple-style-span"></span></div><div><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxEC_EC_Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><pre style="white-space:normal"><font class="ecxecxecxecxecxEC_Apple-style-span" face="Verdana, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span class="ecxecxecxecxecxEC_Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><pre style="white-space:normal">Editor<br><i>Critical Race and Whiteness Studies</i><br><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="color:rgb(12, 12, 12)"><a href="http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournal/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.acrawsa.org.au/ejournal</a></span></pre><pre style="white-space:normal"><i>Mediating Faiths: Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century</i><br><a href="http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&edition_id=12018&title_id=9001&calctitle=1" target="_blank">http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&edition_id=12018&title_id=9001&calctitle=1</a></pre><pre style="white-space:normal"><font class="ecxecxApple-style-span" face="Verdana">------</font></pre><pre style="white-space:normal"><p class="ecxecxMsoNormal"><font class="ecxApple-style-span" color="#2A2A2A" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height:18px;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px">"It annoys me that the biggest political icon from the last 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher, </span></font><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px">someone who tried to destroy the working class ... it freaks me out you know." - Noel Gallagher </span></p></pre></span></font></pre></span></div> </div></body>
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