Lights! Tystnad! Azione! Practices, Sites and
Careers in European Film Production
International Conference
Department for Cinema Studies
Stockholm University
April 7th-8th, 2011
Conference Venue: Filmhuset, Borgvägen 1-5, S-1155 Stockholm
Keynote speaker: John Caldwell, Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA
Over the last years, Production Studies has
developed into a new field of inquiry
going beyond traditional examinations of
authorship, industry structure, or active
audiences. Production Studies explore media as production cultures. Studying
production as a culture involves gathering empirical data about careers and
contracts, collaboration and conflicts, routines
and rituals. Production Studies
likewise involves the analytical work with texts
and practices readily available: trade
stories and practitioner interviews, the films
themselves, biographies, or even
promotional material disclosing the "behind the scenes" of filmmaking. Until
recently, explorations in this new field of
research have almost exclusively been
brought forward by US American scholars. The Stockholm conference is a first
European intervention into this burgeoining
field of study. So far, contributions to
this field within European research contexts
either have been confined to individual
projects emanating from disciplines not
specializing in film and media, such as
organizational sociology, management studies,
cultural economics, and cultural
anthropology, or they have been narrowing down
the focus on particular fields such
as screenwriting or animation. The wealth of current European and American
research on production thus remains unconnected. The Stockholm conference
consequently sets out for an interdisciplinary
dialogue which may help to appropriate
sociological and economical knowledge on
production within film and media studies
research.
Conference Organizer: Patrick Vonderau
(<mailto:(patrick.vonderau /at/ mail.film.su.se)>(patrick.vonderau /at/ mail.film.su.se)) in
collaboration with Petr Szczepanik and Dorota Ostrowska.
Conference Management/Registration:
Gabriel de Bourg, Aksel Dalili. Conference
attendance is free, but registration is required
(<mailto:(gabriel /at/ debourg.se)>(gabriel /at/ debourg.se))
7th of April, 2011
9.00 Registration
9.45-10.00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
10.00-11.30 Panel 1: From Hollywood to Europe: Modes of Production
Moderator: Dorota Ostrowska
Daniel Steinhart (UCLA)
Towards A More Flexible Mode of Production:
The Internationalization of Hollywood Production in Postwar Europe
Petr Szczepanik (Masaryk University, Brno)
Dramaturgy: A Practical Theory of Filmmaking
Alex Zons (University of Konstanz)
The Social Structure of Competition: What Is It That Agents Do?
11.45-12.45 Panel 2: Authorship and Leadership
Moderator: Isak Thorsen
Marja-Soila Wadman (Linnéus University, Växjö)
Managing the Creative Process in a Film Project?
Eva Novrup Redvall (University of Copenhagen)
Production Practice as an Interplay Between
Individuals, the Domain and the Field:
A Research Framework for Studying Feature Filmmaking
12.45-13.45 Lunch Break
13.45-14.45 Keynote
John Caldwell (UCLA)
Distributing and Managing Production Knowledge: A Transportable Model?
Moderator: Petr Szczepanik
15.00-16.30 Panel 3: Creativity and Careers
Moderator: Melis Behlil
Bridget Conor (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Production Studies and Creative Labour:
Investigating the Work-Worlds of British Screenwriters
Philip Drake (University of Stirling, Scotland)
'Reputational Capital' and the 'Talent Economy':
Useful Concepts in Understanding the UK Film Industry?
Christopher-John Mathieu (Copenhagen Business School)
The ?Cultural" of Production in Contemporary Danish Film
16.30-17.00 Coffee Break
17.00-18.30 Panel 4: Materialities of the Craft
Moderator: Olof Hedling
Sara Malou Strandvad (Roskilde University)
Analyzing Production from A Socio-Material Perspective
Patrick Vonderau (Stockholm University)
Prop Art. The Material World of Production
Dorota Ostrowska (Birkbeck College, London)
Filming Emotions
8th of April 2011
9.30-11.00 Panel 5: Aesthetics and Agency in Television Production
Moderator: Patrick Vonderau
Malin Wahlberg (Stockholm University)
"World at Your Door": Transnational Collaborations and Cultural
Imagination in Early Public Television
Anna Zoellner (University of Leeds)
Creativity and Commerce in Independent Television Production
Dimitrinka Stoyanova (University of St. Andrews, Scotland)
Learning and Skills Development in a Fragmented Community: The Case of the UK
11.15-12.45 Panel 6: Geographies of Filmmaking
Moderator: Malin Wahlberg
Kristian Feigelson (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle ? Paris3)
Delocalisation and Production Flows in the European Film Industry
Isak Thorsen (University of Copenhagen)
Denmark and Runaway Productions
Alessandro Jedlowski (Universitá di Napoli "L'Orientale")
On the Periphery of Nollywood. The Nigerian Video Filmmaking in Italy and the
Emerging of Transnational Aesthetics
12.45-13.00 Closing Remarks
Melis Behlil (Kadir Has University, Istanbul)
Speakers
Professor John Thornton Caldwell, Cinema and Media Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles
Dr Melis Behlil, Radio, Television and Cinema, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Dr Bridget Conor, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Dr Philip Drake, Lecturer & Deputy Head of
Graduate School, Department of Film,
Media & Journalism, University of Stirling, Scotland
Dr Kristian Feigelson, Lecturer, Sociologie du
cinéma et de l'audiovisuel, Université
Sorbonne Nouvelle ? Paris 3
Dr Olof Hedling, Associate Professor, Lund
University & Steering Group Member,
Lund Film Academy
Alessandro Jedlowski, PhD Candidate, Universitá di Napoli "L'Orientale"
Dr Christopher-John Mathieu, Associate Professor, Department of Organization,
Copenhagen Business School
Dr Dorota Ostrowska, Lecturer in Film and Modern
Media, Department of History of
Art and Screen Media, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, London
Dr Eva Novrup Redvall, Assistant Professor,
Department of Film and Media Studies,
University of Copenhagen
Dr Petr Szczepanik, Associate Professor,
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual
Culture, Masaryk University, Brno
Daniel Steinhart, PhD Candidate, UCLA, Los Angeles
Dr Dimitrinka Stoyanova, Lecturer, School of Management, University of St.
Andrews, Scotland
Dr Sara Malou Strandvad, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication,
Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University
Dr Isak Thorsen, Department of Film and Media
Studies, University of Copenhagen
Dr Patrick Vonderau, Associate Professor, Department for Cinema Studies,
Stockholm University
Dr Marja-Soila Wadman, Senior Lecturer, School of Business and Economics,
Linneus University, Växjö
Dr Malin Wahlberg, Associate Professor,
Department for Cinema Studies, Stockholm
University
Dr Anna Zoellner, Lecturer in Media Industries,
Institute of Communication Studies,
University of Leeds
Dr Alex Zons, Lecturer, Department of Media Studies, University of Constance
