[ecrea] CFP: Contemporary Screen Narratives Conference

This is the FINAL REMINDER for the CONTEMPORARY SCREEN NARRATIVES 
conference CFP.


DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: Sunday 4 March 2012.


CONFIRMED keynote speakers: HENRY JENKINS and JASON MITTELL


Further details:


Title: Contemporary Screen Narratives: Storytelling’s Digital and 
Industrial Contexts


Conference to be held on 17 May 2012


Hosted by the Department of Culture, Film and Media, University of 
Nottingham


This one-day conference looks to trace connections between the 
narratives of contemporary screen media and their contexts of 
production, distribution and consumption. We refer here to narrative as 
the presentation and organisation of story via the semiotic phenomena of 
image, sound and written/spoken word. We anticipate that speakers will 
explore ways in which stories and their on-screen telling are informed 
by contemporary industrial and technological conditions. We invite 
contributions from postgraduate and early-career researchers working 
across screen-based narrative media, such as film, television, comics, 
literature, video games and other areas of new media. We are interested 
to receive all paper proposals pertinent to the conference topic, though 
we particularly welcome those that engage with the following themes and 
questions:


Industrial determinants: In what ways are stories and their telling 
contingent on the production cultures, distribution methods, revenue 
models and governmental policies that configure a given creative industry?

Digital Technologies: How has the construction and/or reception of 
narratives been influenced by digital production equipment, distribution 
tech, online platforms and consumer hardware devices?


Seriality and Transmedia: In what ways do serial narrative forms, 
whether disseminated within a given medium or across multiple media, 
reflect industrial and technological contexts?


Audio and Visual Styles: How are the sounds and visions of contemporary 
screen narratives informed by conditions of production and reception 
technologies?


Paratextual Surround: In what ways do promotional materials, 
practitioner discourses, fan cultures and critical/journalistic 
responses discursively frame screen narratives?


Adaptation processes: How do the specificities of a given screen media 
industry and/or technology inform the telling of a pre-existent story?


Send abstracts of 250 words to Anthony Smith ((aaxas4 /at/ nottingham.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(aaxas4 /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)>) and Aaron Calbreath-Frasieur 
((aaxac2 /at/ nottingham.ac.uk) <mailto:(aaxac2 /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)>). Papers 
should not exceed twenty minutes in length. The deadline for proposal 
submission is Sunday 4 March 2012.


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