[ecrea] Call for Papers -- Film Policy in a Transnational Context: the New Challenges

>Call for Papers
>Film Policy in a Transnational Context: the New Challenges
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>
>Symposium jointly organised by the University of 
>Nottingham Ningbo and the National University of 
>Mexico, to be held at the National University of 
>Mexico, Taxco campus on Saturday 28 August 2010
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>Keynote speaker:
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>Professor Toby Miller, University of California Riverside
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>
>The transnational context in which filmmaking is 
>now embedded is posing new challenges for 
>cultural policy, including film policy, given 
>the growing privatization, new technologies and, 
>in the case of Latin America, the Spanish or 
>Portuguese language cinema that is jointly 
>produced with Spain or Portugal within the 
>framework of Ibermedia. The symposium seeks to examine the following topics:
>
>    * The impact of local or regional cinema on 
> cultural identities, including national identity
>    * The role played by festivals
>    * Co-productions: their contexts and consequences
>    * The relationship between cultural policy and aesthetics
>    * Mechanisms to promote diversity and widen access
>    * Mechanisms to develop audiences for local or regional cinema
>    * Digital technology and cinema in Latin America
>
>Abstracts between 250 and 300 words should be 
>sent to the organisers, Armida de la Garza, 
><(Armida.delagarza /at/ nottingham.edu.htm)>(Armida.delagarza /at/ nottingham.edu.cn) 
><mailto:(Armida.delagarza /at/ nottingham.edu.cn)> and 
>Germán Gil Curiel, 
><(german.gil /at/ nottingham.edu.htm)>(german.gil /at/ nottingham.edu.cn) by 15 June 2010.
>

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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