[ecrea] CFP How Filmmakers Think TV / Comparative Cinema 7

*How Filmmakers Think TV *

The seventh issue of /Comparative Cinema/ 
<http://www.ocec.eu/cinemacomparative/>, to be published in December 
2015, will focus on the comparative analysis of television-related ideas 
and projects by different filmmakers, starting from Rossellini’s seminal 
work for television as a critical and pedagogical tool. In the following 
years, a number of key modern filmmakers –Renoir, Godard, Bergman, 
Fassbinder– developed films or series for TV, exploring the new 
possibilities of the medium, its uses and relations with audiences, 
while expanding the use of dramatic structures through duration and 
seriality. In the United States, since the 50’s, television became a 
research lab for directors like Hitchcock, as well as a critical space 
for maturing and testing ideas. The issue also asks for contributions on 
long-term projects as the oeuvre of Kluge, or lesser-known specific 
cases such as the TV works of Zulueta or Warhol, in addition to papers 
focusing on contemporary series, from the already canonical works of 
Lynch, Kieslowski or Von Trier, to more recent endeavors by Raoul Ruiz 
or Steven Soderbergh. The overall purpose of this issue is to study the 
conceptual and practical contributions of different filmmakers to TV as 
a medium, with its similarities and possible differences in relation to 
cinema, always focusing on specific cases.

Send brief 500-word proposals to (comparativecinema /at/ upf.edu) 
<mailto:(comparativecinema /at/ upf.edu)> along with a list of five related 
bibliographical sources and a short 100-word bio. Deadline: April 27^th 
2015.