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[ecrea] Homer@NECS 2014 CfP

Thu Dec 05 15:55:25 GMT 2013




Comparative Approaches to Movie-going, Exhibition and Reception



HoMER@NECS 2014, 19-21 June 2014, Milan, Italy.



Call for HoMER papers and panels at the NECS 2014 International Conference

Submission Deadline: 10th January, 2014

Please email all inquiries to Pierluigi Ercole, Email: (percole /at/ brookes.ac.uk)



Following last year successful HoMER@NECS conference in Prague, The History of Movie-going Exhibition and Reception (HoMER) group is organizing a series of panels within the NECS 2014 International Conference in Milan, Italy. HoMER gathers international scholars who research the complex phenomenon of the social and cultural experience cinema-going, film exhibition and reception from a multidisciplinary perspective.



After a productive review of the current state of research within this expanding field the time is right for developing comparative approaches to the numerous micro-historical national studies. The analysis of patterns and networks in film culture also calls for special attention to methodology. We aim to bring European perspectives on cinema-going and film exhibition into dialogue with US, Australian, African, South American and Asian research.



We support the submission of individual papers or pre-constituted panel proposals from HoMER members and interested non-members, as we seek to bring together scholars dealing with these subjects from all over the globe.



Possible topics:



• The attention given to “top down” forces of industry, commerce and ideology as against “bottom up” forces of experience, consumption and escapism.

•  Contesting concepts of public and private space in media experience.

• Questions relating to cinema’s integration into to the metropolitan experience of modernity, compared to its role in the construction of community in less urbanized and rural areas.

• Film exhibition, cinema-going and film experience in relation to theories of imperialism, post-colonialism, etc.

• Long term tendencies such as the rise of cinemas in rural and urban environments, the boom of cinema-going, the decay and subsequent closure of many (provincial and neighborhood) cinemas and the rise of multiplexes.

• Tensions between commercial and/or ideological film exhibition, between urban and rural areas, and between provinces and regions.

• Institutional developments, geographical location and programming trends.

•    Audience and film experiences in urban and rural contexts.

•    A comparative international perspective on cinema-going and exhibition.

•    Diasporic cinema-going practices.

• Representations in films of cinema-going, film exhibition, film culture(s).

• Reflections on methods: How to reconcile/combine large scale analysis with in depth case study How to link up national or regional databases on exhibition and cinema-going?



We explicitly invite non-HoMER scholars who are working on the mentioned topics and want to share their research with international colleagues. A selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in an edited volume in 2015 (publisher to be confirmed) HoMER@NECS 2014 will also be preceded by a one day HoMER workshop (practical information on the workshop will follow).



Practical information



You can submit an individual paper proposal or a pre-constituted panel proposal. Panels may consist of 3 to 4 speakers with a maximum of 20 minutes speaking time each. All presenters are obliged to provide a title, an abstract of maximum 150 words, 3 to 5 key bibliographical references, name of the presenter and institutional affiliation, plus a short panel rational (150 words max.) in case o pre-constituted panels.



Please submit all individual HoMER paper or HoMER panel proposals before 10th January 2014 to Pierluigi Ercole ((percole /at/ brookes.ac.uk)). You will be notified of acceptance shortly thereafter. Please note that HoMER papers and panels should not be submitted via the NECS online submission system, but via e-mail to Pierluigi Ercole, as they will be reviewed separately by the HoMER 2014 programming team.



The HoMER programming team:

Daniel Biltereyst

Pierluigi Ercole

Mariagrazia Fanchi

Phillippe Meers

Clara Pafoort-Overduin

John Sedgwick

Judith Thissen

Daniela Treveri-Gennari

Lies Van de Vijver



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