[ecrea] CFP - Screen Policies in the 21st Century - 17-18 November 2014, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris

Screen Policies in the 21st Century

5th CinEcoSA Conference

17-18 November 2014

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, France


Historically, film has been at the centre of cultural policies around 
the world. These public policies have striven to support a local film 
production, for both cultural and economic reasons. After dedicating the 
previous conference in 2013 to Film and TV policies in the 
English-speaking world, CinEcoSA (www.cinecosa.com) now wishes to 
enlarge the discussion to 1) other media, 2) other regions around the 
world. Over the last three decades, the media environment has changed, 
with digitalisation and the development of new forms of screen media 
(video games, the Internet, mobile media), so much so that screen media 
is no longer geographically constrained in its production and 
distribution. New technologies have also potentially reduced the costs 
of producing and distributing films around the world. These changes have 
consequently challenged government policies aimed at the cultural 
protection and nurturing of local screen industries.

Since the late 20th century, the traditional boundaries on which 
cultural policies were based have been put into question. The idea of 
local and national film industries have to be dealt with in a context 
where many films are shot and post-produced outside the territory where 
they were developed. Hollywood is renowned for its runaway productions, 
but filmmakers from other countries, such as France or India, have 
roamed around the globe to take advantage of the incentives offered by 
numerous film production centres. States have thus had to balance the 
economic effort required to attract foreign productions with the 
cultural objective of developing a national screen production industry.

Another boundary which seems to be imploding is that between media. Film 
remains a standard bearer, but it is now part of a larger media 
ecosystem where television series, web series, interactive websites and 
video games hold their own. The recent British decision to extend 
production incentives to video games is a sign that traditional 
legislation is evolving to incorporate new forms of media. Digital 
technologies and the Internet have notably had a momentous impact on the 
media ecosystem. By easing film circulation, new technologies have also 
facilitated piracy of content, which has become increasingly rampant, 
reaching levels that 1980s VHS and 1990s DVD pirates could not have 
imagined. The piracy issue pitting State regulation vs. individual 
liberty has been at the centre of heated debates, from the SOPA 
legislation in the USA to the setting up of HADOPI in France. Not all 
countries have the same film and television policy history and not all 
react in the same way. One can contrast the situation in France, which 
has had a long history of film support, which must now be adapted to the 
digital environment, with that of the United Arab Emirates which have 
been developing a State-supported media industry only in the past decade 
and have thus immediately embraced the new media paradigm.

This conference aims at exploring the changes that have taken place in 
the institutional ecology of the screen media industries around the 
world since the late 20th century, including the changing role and 
priorities of governments in the support, development and protection of 
the industries, the role of market-based regulation, and the impact of 
technological innovation. The conference welcomes papers from different 
disciplinary perspectives to explore the way screen policies adapt to 
the transnational and transmedia logics of the digital era. Papers can 
present theoretical frameworks or focus on case studies. National 
analyses are welcome – however, comparative presentations are to be 
favoured when possible.


Topics may include, but are not restricted to:

- Evolution of State support for media production and distribution, 
media training programmes, festivals; support for new media (including 
video games) vs. old media

- State regulation of content (censorship) and circulation

- Debate around digital piracy, peer-to-peer networks

- Incentive schemes to attract foreign productions or film crews and 
competition between different geographic localities

- Interrelationship between regional, national and supra-national 
institutions and policy bodies, competition and/or collaboration between 
jurisdictions

- Co-production treaties

- Impact of digitalisation


Please send your proposals (title, 400-word abstract, 4 bibliographical 
references, brief biography) to (cecilia.tirtaine /at/ univ-paris3.fr) and 
(Nathalie.Dupont /at/ univ-littoral.fr) by 10 September 2014.

Working language of the conference: English. There may be provision for 
a limited number of delegates to present and participate from outside 
Europe via video conferencing.

Final papers will be considered for publication in English following a 
peer-review process.


For more information about CinEcoSA (Cinéma, Economie & Sociétés 
Anglophones), visit our website: http://www.cinecosa.com.



Organizing Committee

Joël Augros (Université Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint Denis)

Nathalie Dupont (Université de la Côte d’Opale)

Nolwenn Mingant (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)

Cecilia Tirtaine (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)


Scientific Committee

Joël Augros (Université Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint Denis)

Laurent Creton (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)

Philip Drake (Edge Hill University, Liverpool)

Nathalie Dupont (Université de la Côte d’Opale)

Frédéric Gimello (Université d’Avignon)

David Newman (Simon Fraser University)

Nolwenn Mingant (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)

Roger Shannon (Edge Hill University, Liverpool)

Cecilia Tirtaine (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)



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Cecilia Tirtaine
Senior Lecturer in British Studies
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
http://www.cinecosa.com/
http://inmedia.revues.org/

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