[ecrea] Call for Chapters: Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Innovation, Policy and Practice

Call for Chapters: Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Innovation, Policy 
and Practice

Editors:
Sarita Malik (Sociology/Communications, Brunel University London)
Caroline Chapain (Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham)
Roberta Comunian (Creative Industries, Kings College London)

The community arts movement of the 1960s and 1970s was based on the 
assumption that community-led activity was representative of the people, 
and thus merited public investment. Since then, community filmmaking has 
been a good example of community-led arts activity, often with a civic 
agenda, that lacks public investment. Research around the role of cinema 
and society has tended to focus on the mainstream film value chain, with 
the role of community filmmaking contexts still under-developed. 
Community Filmmaking: Diversity, Innovation, Policy and Practice seeks 
to address these gaps by relating issues of cultural diversity and 
community filmmaking to innovation through critical conceptual and 
empirical analysis. It will focus on the community mode of filmmaking, 
especially on current production and practices and the extent to which 
it constitutes an alternative to ‘mainstream’ filmmaking or one step on 
a pathway towards it. The book also aims to shed light on the role and
 impact of policy and place.

Submissions will contribute to the debate by exploring community 
filmmaking and its connection with representations and identities, as 
well as practices and innovation in various places. They will develop 
situated and reflexive examinations of the complex relationships between 
community filmmaking and 
diversity/representation/innovation/policy/practice.

Contributions that feature UK, European and/or international examples 
are welcome as are interdisciplinary perspectives from within Media and 
Communication Studies, Creative Industries, Cultural Studies, Film 
Studies, Cultural Geography, Business and Innovation Studies and Sociology.

Chapters may explore, but are not limited to, the following areas of 
focus/themes:

Representation

Amateur filmmaking and ideas of domestic creativity

Cultural Identity

Skills and training

Practices and Innovation

Arts and commerce

Networks and intermediaries

Skills and Networks

Policy, Place and Community Filmmaking


Please send chapter proposals to (sarita.malik /at/ brunel.ac.uk): mail to: 
(sarita.malik /at/ brunel.ac.uk) by 01 April, 2015.

The proposal should be no more than 1000 words and should include:

·        Information on the nature of the contribution (theoretical, 
empirical/case study etc.)

·        If empirical it would be useful to know the methodology and 
data used in the contribution

·        A brief biographical note about the author(s).

Authors should know by the beginning of May if their proposals have been 
accepted.

On acceptance, chapter submissions of approximately 6,500 words in 
length will be submitted by 01 November, 2015. The editors will review 
submitted chapters.

We welcome inquiries from authors. ?

Best wishes,

Sarita, Caroline and Roberta


Sarita Malik (Dr)
Senior Lecturer in Media & Communications
Director of Research

T +44 (0)  1895 266874 | Email: (Sarita.Malik /at/ brunel.ac.uk) |

Brunel University London
Department of Social Sciences, Media & Communications
College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences

Marie Jahoda 152, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United 
Kingdom
www.brunel.ac.uk







Sarita Malik (Dr)
Senior Lecturer in Media & Communications
Director of Research

Email: (Sarita.Malik /at/ brunel.ac.uk) |

Brunel University London
Department of Social Sciences, Media & Communications
College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences

Marie Jahoda 152, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, United 
Kingdom
www.brunel.ac.uk



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