[ecrea] Call for Contributions: “Documentary Film Cultures: Wales” (Edited Collection)

*Call for Contributions*

“Documentary Film Cultures: Wales” (Edited Collection)
_Editors:_
Professor Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones & Dr Dafydd Sills-Jones, Aberystwyth 
University
The purpose of this edited collection is to gather together the latest 
research and opinion on the documentary film culture of Wales, for a 
book in the new /Documentary Film Cultures/ series from Peter Lang 
(https://www.peterlang.com/view/serial/DFC).

Documentary in contemporary Wales has evolved as part of a wider 
national emergence from a British context, marked by the appointment of 
Cardiff as Wales’ capital as late as 1955, the launch of a Welsh 
language broadcaster Sianel 4 Cymru (S4C) in 1982, and the founding of Y 
Senedd (National Assembly for Wales) following the referendum of 1997. 
It is closely linked to the British tradition, and especially to the BBC 
documentary film values of authority, facticity and dominant political 
discourse. Most of Wales’ documentary output has been produced by 
televisual broadcasters such as BBC Cymru/Wales, HTV Wales and Sianel 4 
Cymru (S4C). This has had a specific and complex effect on the way 
documentary has presented reality, and projected notions of Welshness.
In recent years, there has been a shift towards a more independent mode 
of production, with Welsh filmmakers taking their place in an 
international community of production, co-production and distribution.  
These shifts include the founding of a national festival of documentary 
(WIDF), a national guild of documentary makers (DOGFEN Cymru), and new 
documentary strands developed by S4C, activist documentary production 
and emergent filmmakers within academia. This book seeks to place this 
new, emerging, transnational, multi-lingual and aspirational ecosystem 
next to the older system that gave it life, in an attempt to trace the 
development of a film culture in a specific instance of small nation 
cinema dynamics.
This exciting new book from Peter Lang series provides a space for 
exploring the development of documentary film cultures in the 
contemporary context. The series takes an ecological approach to the 
study of documentary funding, production, distribution and consumption 
by emphasizing the interconnections between these practices and those of 
other media systems. It thus encourages new ways of understanding 
documentary films or practices as part of other, wider systems of 
cultural production.
Therefore, we are looking for contributions on the contemporary 
documentary culture/ecology of Wales, from any perspective, including:
-          Contemporary Production Structures and Cultures
-          Historical Background to the Contemporary Scene
-          Welsh Language Documentary
-          Bilingualism and Documentary in Wales
-          Legislative Frameworks and Documentary Output
-          Alternative Documentary Aesthetics and Practices
-          Activist & Community: Not-For-Profit Documentary
-          Welsh Documentary Auteurs
-          A ‘Welsh’ Documentary Aesthetic
-          Wales And the British documentary tradition
-          Transnational Welsh Documentary
-          Documentary in the Academy
-          Welsh Documentary Audiences
-          Welsh Identity and Documentary / Identity and Welsh Documentary
We are open to formats that could include but are not limited to: 
traditional book chapters (6-7k), short opinion/provocation pieces 
(2-3K), dialogues and interviews.
_Timeline_:
December 10th, 2017 - Abstract submission deadline
January 8th – Notification of acceptance
May 2018 – contributions due
May – September 2018 - Peer review / revisions
Publication – late 2018/early 2019
Please email 300 word abstract and 150 word biography to (esj /at/ aber.ac.uk) 
& (dfs /at/ aber.ac.uk)



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