[ecrea] CFP - Comparative Approaches to Movie-going, Exhibition and Reception

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

Extended Submission Deadline: 15th January, 2014

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



HoMER@NECS 2014 will also be preceded by a one day HoMER workshop 
(practical information on the workshop will follow).



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)



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 
15th 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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