[ecrea] CFP: New Perspectives on Cinematic Spectatorship, Digital Culture & Space - Special Issue of Networking Knowledge

CALL FOR PAPERS:

New Perspectives on Cinematic Spectatorship, Digital Culture & Space: 
Re-evaluating Exhibition, Participation and Interaction

A special-themed issue of Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN

Deadline for abstracts: 1st April 2014

Throughout the history of the moving image, interrogations of film as 
text have arguably taken precedence over analysis of cinema as space. 
The film industry and film academia both assume, and thus assert, a 
dominant understanding of the environmental architecture of cinema based 
on a set dynamic between projector, screen and viewer. Ingrained over 
time from these spatial parameters is an almost taken-for-granted 
idealisation of the unique experience of film viewing: the ‘cinematic 
dispositif’. Despite the cultural hegemony of the traditional ‘cinematic 
dispositif’, in a 2008 article André Parente and Victa de Carvalho 
suggest that film history is littered with (often overlooked) variations 
and experimentations in cinema’s spatial parameters. Writing from the 
context of the binary between cinema and art they suggest that 
contemporary transformations “call for a reproblematisation of the 
dispositif and its conceptual, historical and conceptual aspects” (2008: 
39). This issue of Networking Knowledge seeks to publish a range of 
articles that interrogate and problematise the ‘cinematic dispositif’ in 
light of the transformative effects of digital culture.

A raft of digital, technological advances is affecting viewing 
practices, which in turn, are challenging the ‘sacrosanct’ space of the 
cinema auditorium in myriad ways. In the early nineties Thomas Elsaesser 
postulated a revolutionary time for cinema referencing reactions to the 
influence of television and VCR and only touching on the future virtual 
spaces to come. Since then, a host of institutional, technological and 
cultural transformations has engendered a redefinition of the 
production, distribution and exhibition landscape. Further than this the 
spectrum of outcomes and possibilities of cinema metamorphosing as a 
spatial, experiential, interactive, phenomenological construct have only 
just begun to be realised. This issue seeks to contextualise and 
theorise the relationship between bodies, spaces, technologies and 
screens in the digital age, providing a philosophical interrogation of 
contemporary cinematic experience. We invite articles in subject areas, 
which may include but are not limited to:

· New theorisations of cinematic spectatorship

· New philosophies of bodies/spaces/screens

· The effect of new modes of distribution in cinematic viewing

· Influence of communications technologies and social media

· Forms of interactivity and cinematic immersion

· New filmmaking practices and tools

· Trans-media effects

· Issues for film criticism, journalism and writing

· Debates around the future of Film Studies as a discipline

· Analysis of practices designed to preserve a ‘traditional’ 
understanding of cinema.



We invite articles by postgraduate and early career researchers, which 
are 5,000 to 6,000 words long. Please send abstracts of up to 300 words 
along with a 50-word biography by April 1st 2014 to Dario Llinares 
((dario.llinares /at/ falmouth.ac.uk)) and Sam Ward ((aaxsjw /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)). 
Articles will be due on 1st August 2014. Please contact the editors or 
visit the Networking Knowledge web pages for any further information.



Dr Dario Llinares and Dr Sarah Arnold, Falmouth University

Guest Editors



Sam Ward

Journal Editor




Sam Ward

Journal Editor
Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network

PhD Candidate
Department of Culture, Film and Media
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
University of Nottingham

www.mediaacrossborders.com
www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk



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