[ecrea] Conference CFP: Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath

Contemporary Spanish Screen Media and Responses to Crisis and Aftermath

University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Friday 31 March — Saturday 1 April

(linking with VIVA Spanish and Latin American Festival, HOME Arts 
Centre, Manchester)


CALL for PAPERS


This conference will explore the diverse ways in which Spanish screen 
media has responded to the recent economic crisis.  Since 2008, the 
economic context of precariousness and its aftermath has brought about 
shifts in Spanish film production and distribution. These material 
conditions have resulted in a renewal in the aesthetics of Spanish 
screen media and in increasingly innovative and experimental forms. 
Moreover, a new social turn in Spanish cinema, television and new media 
has re-engaged with questions of social exclusion and belonging, thereby 
providing a crucial intervention into contemporary political discourses.


Papers of twenty minutes are invited on the following topics:


  *

    New media, image sharing, piracy, creative commons, transmedia 
practices

  *

    Political filmmaking

  *

    Crowdfunding and cooperative work

  *

    Activism and advocacy

  *

    Surveillance and subveillance

  *

    Changing audiences

  *

    The role of film festivals

  *

    Questions of affect and ethics

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    Contemporary representations of gender, race, class, disability

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    Emerging modes of production and distribution for cinema

  *

    Interrogating genre

  *

    New critical approaches to Spanish film


Please send proposals of 200 words by 22 December 2016to both Abigail 
Loxham (abigail.loxham /at/ manchester.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(abigail.loxham /at/ manchester.ac.uk)> andTom Whittaker 
(t.whittaker /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(t.whittaker /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)>


Organised by the Regional Research Network in Spanish, Portuguese and 
Latin American Cinemas coordinated by Carmen Herrero, Abigail Loxham, 
Chris Perriam,  Duncan Wheeler and Tom Whittaker. Supported by the 
British Academy. Conference fees will be waived for speakers and for a 
limited number of postgraduate researchers wishing to attend without 
giving a paper.


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