[ecrea] Call for papers: New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies

Call for papers: 'New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies'

Culture Lab, Newcastle University, 16 November 2012

A one day conference in collaboration between Newcastle University's
Research Centre in Film&  Digital Media and the University of
Sunderland's Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, with
keynote speaker Professor Bridget Fowler of the University of Glasgow.

Despite the profound influence of Pierre Bourdieu's work in the fields
of sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies, it has been less
extensively employed in research in the fields of film and media.
Certainly for film, this is partially explained by a lack of direct
comment by Bourdieu on the subject (the short essay "Culture is in
danger" (2000) represents the most striking exception in this regard).
Although Bourdieu has written more extensively on media, this has
certainly not produced what one might call a Bourdieu school of media
studies. The aim of the conference, therefore, is to explore new uses of Bourdieu in film and media research.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

*      symbolic violence: making the invisible visible
*      film space and social space
*      the engaged intellectual in film and media
*      film and artistic autonomy
*      film/media as serving/resisting cultural, social and political reproduction
*      film/media's potential to reinforce or to resist masculine domination
*      taste, distinction and canon formation
*      reflexivity in film and media


Proposals of 200 words along with a short biography should be sent by
September 30 (toguy.austin /at/ ncl.ac.uk)  (andjohn.storey /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)



Guy Austin
Professor of French Studies
Director of Research Centre in Film and Digital Media
School of Modern Languages
Old Library Building
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU

(guy.austin /at/ ncl.ac.uk)
Tel: (0191) 222 7447


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