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

Tue Nov 14 15:51:42 GMT 2017





*DEADLINE REMINDER: **December 10th, 2017 - Abstract submission deadline*

*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) <mailto:(esj /at/ aber.ac.uk)> & (dfs /at/ aber.ac.uk) <mailto:(dfs /at/ aber.ac.uk)>


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