[ecrea] Call for Papers for the 5th Edinburgh International Film Audience Conference

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** Call for Papers for the 5th Edinburgh International Film Audience 
Conference (EIFAC), 27th - 28th March 2014, Edinburgh **

Edinburgh International Film Audience Conference (EIFAC) returns in 2014 
with a new conference team but still upholding its predecessors’ focus 
on exciting audience research taking place within academic film studies 
and within the film industry. The two-day conference will shine the 
spotlight on film cultures and film audiences by showcasing an expanding 
pool of scholarship, which moves away from classical textual modes of 
research to include empirical fieldwork. The event will debate how 
different methodologies and perspectives can help further our 
understanding of the most important people in the world of film – the 
audience. There is a lot to be learned from other subject areas, 
therefore, this year sees the call for papers reach out to non-film 
disciplines by encouraging scholars in television and game studies to 
share their empirical research.The conference has been praised for 
creating an arena where new and experienced researchers in academia can 
come together to sha
re their enthusiasm for audience research in a friendly and supportive 
environment. Whilst the conference may well appeal primarily to 
academics, it invites contribution from those working in the film 
industries (production, distribution, exhibition, policy-making).

** Papers **
All papers should be concerned with empirical research on screen 
audiences. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the 
following issues/themes, however, we also welcome papers on other 
interesting topics:

- The challenges facing the empirical researcher
- Film festival audiences and communities
- Statistical literacy in empirical research
- Researching child and youth audiences
- Rethinking cinephilia, developing audience taxonomies
- Contemporary cinema audiences
- Film, fandom and merchandise
- Cult film and cult audiences
- Digital and online film cultures
- Transnational film audiences
- Film exhibition and the construction of audience
- Film policy and audiences
- Exhibition and/or consumption of short film
- Empirical research methods in television studies
- Empirical research methods in game studies
- Work in Progress

We continue to offer a showcase for work in progress. This is a great 
opportunity for Masters and PhD students to share research they are 
working on and receive helpful feedback from their peers. This work will 
be displayed in our social area throughout the conference in either 
printed poster or electronic poster format (a short PowerPoint slide 
show or similar multimedia format).

THE CFP DEADLINE IS: 5pm on Friday 29th November 2013

** Submitting Abstracts **
Paper proposals should include title, abstract, 3-5 key bibliographical 
references, and the name/s of the presenter/s and institutional 
affiliation/s, which collectively should be no more than 300 words. We 
also ask potential presenters to include a short biography (maximum 100 
words). Work in progress proposals should include title, short abstract, 
2 key bibliographical references, and the name of the presenter and 
institutional affiliation, which should collectively be no more than 200 
words. We also ask work in progress presenters to include a short 
biography (maximum 50 words).

Abstracts should be submitted as virus-free Word or rtf attachments to 
Ana Moraes ((abstracts /at/ filmaudiencesconference.co.uk)) no later than 5pm 
on Friday 29th November 2013. Please note the category you are 
submitting for in the email subject line (‘Paper Proposal’ or ‘Work in 
Progress Proposal’). External referees will review abstracts and all 
contributors will be notified of the outcome by early January 2014. 
Abstracts that are longer than prescribed will not be considered.

We differ from many other conferences by providing delegates with copies 
of all papers. Therefore, we require papers all papers in advance of the 
conference by 5pm on Friday 14th March 2014. If you are unable to commit 
to this date, we ask that you do not submit an abstract. Further details 
of the final paper submission process will be sent to successful 
presenters.

For more information visit: http://www.filmaudiencesconference.co.uk
A printable version of the CfP is available here: 
http://www.filmaudiencesconference.co.uk/images/eifac2014_cfp.pdf
Abstracts to be submitted to: (abstracts /at/ filmaudiencesconference.co.uk)


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