[ecrea] cfp - Film & Television Conference

AUDIOVISUALTOPIA: A Conference on the Contemporary Screen Scene
Friday & Saturday, 23 & 24 October 2015
Saint Louis University-Madrid Campus
Madrid, Spain
CALL for PAPERS: One hundred twenty years after the Lumiere Brothers'
/Arrival of a Train/ /at Ciotat Station/ / /L'arrivée d'un train en gare
de La Ciotat /and about 60 years after the insinuation of television
into living rooms across the industrialized world, contemporary
societies are saturated with audiovisual culture. More recently, the
rise of widely affordable techno-substrates for production (digital
photography) and exhibition (youtube, proliferating film festivals) are
clearly enabling toward the "democratization" of audiovisual
sophistication, such that the committed college sophomore can readily
produce polished short films. In other words, there is much to celebrate!

In this milieu, one may also ask whether /"plus ça change, plus c'est la
même chose"/ — or whether we are imbibing from the proverbial "old wine
in new bottles". That is, even as more audiovisual material is now
produced in more places with more participants, film and TV (as
industries, as texts) continue to be contested on the terrain of whether
they largely challenge or affirm the prevailing status quo. The
conference seeks to assess where we are now in a world awash with
moving/narrativized images in which everyone ("everyone") participates
as producer and audience. Beyond the celebratory impulses, where are the
continuities and discontinuities with the past as concern production and
reception of audiovisual materials? What transformative politics are
enabled, suppressed, or ambiguated in the current environment /vis-à-vis
/film, TV and new media? The conference (re)considers where the pillars
of screen studies (production, promotion, genre, stardom, auteurs,
identity) are now situated for the ostensible disruptions of the
contemporary milieu.

Specific areas of interest to the conference:
-Identity and Film/TV
-New Technological Substrates (for Production/Distribution/Reception)
-Festival & Award Culture
-World/Nation/Region on Screen
-Documenting Reality
-Short Films
-Co-production
-Screen Pedagogy
-Political Economy of Film & TV
-Genre Benders
-Auteurism
-Stardom
-Promotion of Audiovisual Material
-Fans

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Núria Triana Toribio, University of Kent, United Kingdom

ABSTRACT SPECIFICATIONS: 150-250 words. Include (A) Name(s) &
Affiliations of Authors(s) and (B) 5 Keywords

CONFERENCE EMAIL ADDRESS: (screen_studies /at/ yahoo.com)
<mailto:(screen_studies /at/ yahoo.com)>

CONFERENCE WEB PAGE: https://audiovisualtopia2015.wordpress.com
<https://audiovisualtopia2015.wordpress.com/>

*DUE DATE for ABSTRACTS: *Saturday 27 June 2015



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