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[ecrea] CFP: Un/Social Cinema

Sat Dec 17 08:38:58 GMT 2016






Call for Papers: /Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies/
Abstracts due 30 January 2017

Pre-eminent English-language journal in audience and reception studies /Participations/ announces a call for papers for a special themed section on ‘Un/Social Cinema: Audience Decorum Revisited’ co-edited by Dr Tessa Dwyer (Monash University) and Dr Stephen Gaunson (RMIT University).

Despite filmgoing having always been a social activity, recent shifts to fan behaviour, technology, film exhibition, and the films, have seriously brought into question issues around social behaviour and general decorum at the cinema. What exactly is unsociable behaviour? By considering historical and contemporary cinemagoing, this special themed section will examine the ways that audience behaviour and interaction is considered social and unsocial.

We are interested in audience participation screenings from cult ‘call backs’ during midnight movies like the /Rocky Horror Picture Show/ to mums-and-bubs sessions, sing-a-longs and sensory-friendly screenings for families with special needs. We are also fascinated by movies that incorporate ‘second screening’ into their design (such as /Angry Birds/ and /APP/) as well as exhibition beyond the auditorium including ‘secret cinema’, drive-ins and outdoor screenings.

Further to this, the editors are interested in how ‘good’ audience behaviour changes across different countries (i.e. India, Iran, Japan, China, Australia, America) and eras (nickelodeon period, silent cinema, mobile phone era). The editors hope to expand previous topics covered in Participations, by adding a number of perspectives to this controversial and contentious issue of filmgoing decorum (if such a thing could ever exist).

Topics may include but are not limited to following:

•    Hecklevision and ‘barrage cinema’
•    Sensory-friendly screenings
•    Sing-a-long screenings
•    Mums-and-bubs sessions
•    Cult movie practices and ‘call backs’
•    3D/4D cinema audiences
•    Texting and tweeting during screenings
•    Drive-in, outdoor and unusual cinemas
•    ‘Secret cinema’ and similar phenomenon
•    Performance and cosplay at the movies
•    Apps and ‘second screening’ at the movies
•    Live translation in the cinema
•    Early film ‘talker’ troupes like Humanovo
•    Benshi and Byonsa traditions

Submissions will be reviewed according to the journal’s practice of open refereeing. Please include a short biographical note with your submission (for each author), giving job title and institution, a sentence or two on ongoing research interests, and a contact email.

Abstract submission deadline: 30 January 2017
Article submission deadline: 3 July 2017
Publication date: November 2017

Please send abstracts and questions to the Section Editors: Tessa Dwyer ((tessa.dwyer /at/ monash.edu) <mailto:(tessa.dwyer /at/ monash.edu)>) and Stephen Gaunson ((stephen.gaunson /at/ rmit.edu.au))

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