[ecrea] CFP: Production Studies: Film, Television, and their Industrial Contexts

*Call for Papers*
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*Production Studies: Film, Television, and their Industrial Contexts*
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*Wednesday 15 June 2016*
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*Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort
University*

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr Bridget Conor, Senior Lecturer at King’s
College London and co-editor of Production Studies, The Sequel!:
Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries (2015)

The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort
University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its
fifth annual postgraduate conference.

In recent years, studies of production and the creative industries have
intervened in film, media and cultural studies to investigate the
operation of power within production communities and the impact of this
on the cultural texts produced. This growing body of research has
considered, amongst other themes: the lived experiences of production
workers, the working cultures in which they operated, the identity of
the production worker and its influence on their production decisions,
the creative agency of actors, the influence of wider economic and
political forces, the impact of new technologies, and the formal and
informal hierarchies which have shaped working practices in the film and
television industries.

This conference aims to contribute to the existing scholarship on
Production Studies and the creative industries by inviting proposals
which explore film and television production, both historically and
contemporarily, and within any national context. Relevant topics
include, but are not limited to:

• Lived experiences of production workers, both above and below the line
(e.g. producers, writers, directors, lighting technicians, continuity
supervisors, production assistants, laboratory technicians, camera
operators, etc.)
• Creative identity and agency of production workers and actors
• Working cultures in film and television production (e.g. informal and
formal hierarchies, collaborative working practices, etc.)
• Organisation of production and the impact of changing industrial
trends (e.g. influence of political and economic forces, new media,
digital technologies, etc.)
• Tensions between commercial and creative interests
• Inequality in the film and television industries – gender, race,
ethnicity, class, age, and disability
• Labour relations in the film and television industries – the role of
trade unions, guild organisations, etc.
• Impact of the industrial context on the text produced

*Proposals for twenty-minute presentations should include the title of
the presentation, a 250 word abstract, and a brief autobiographical
statement. Proposals should be submitted to (cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)> by Monday 4 April 2016. Participants
will receive a response by late April. Publication opportunities may be
available*.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker:
Dr Bridget Conor is the author of Screenwriting: Creative Labour and
Professional Practice (2014), and co-editor of Production Studies, The
Sequel!: Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries (2015) and Gender
and Creative Labour (2015).

Confirmed Industry Speakers:
Graham Duff is a scriptwriter and producer who has created a wealth of
distinctive shows for TV, radio and stage. His latest TV show is the Sky
Arts anthology horror series The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells,
starring Ray Winstone and Michael Gambon.

Chris Carey is a television drama producer. His recent credits include
River for BBC1, written by Abi Morgan and starting Stellan Skarsgård and
Nicola Walker; Remember Me, a supernatural thriller also for BBC1
starring Michael Palin, Mark Addy and Jodie Comer, and comedy drama
Ambassadors with David Mitchell and Robert Webb for BBC2.

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