[Commlist] CFP Quaderns del CAC 47: Film, audiovisual fiction and linguistic diversity + special chapter Covid-19

Call for papers

Quaderns del CAC, Issue 47, October 2021
Film, audiovisual fiction and linguistic diversity + Special chapter 
Covid-19

**Deadline: 26 April 2021**

The next issue of Quaderns del CAC will devote its monographic section 
to linguistic diversity and audiovisual production. It also will have a 
specific chapter for research on communication and Covid-19. Below you 
will find more details about each section:

*Monographic Section*
The Covid-19 pandemic has made it clear that citizens consume a very 
high share of fiction, both in films and series. There have also been 
changes in the way we access these audiovisual products, in favour of 
OTT services, and to the detriment of movie theatres and traditional 
television. This reality has placed the spotlight on the presence (or 
absence) of linguistic diversity in the audiovisual works that shape our 
media diets.

This focus has amplified the voices of alarm about the future of the 
audiovisual market that produces in languages other than the most spoken 
in the world: English, Chinese, Hindi, or Spanish. To guarantee the 
survival of this industry and the diversity of its content, we must 
first solve several problems. The viability of the audiovisual sector 
that produces in the languages of smaller nations or stateless nations, 
or regional or minority languages, depends on ensuring a significant 
supply of films and series for speakers of these languages, and on 
achieving a prominent circulation that reflects the diversity of cultures.

There is a consensus among experts on the need to strengthen the 
production sector with significant public funding, allowing the 
industrial consolidation essential to gain competitiveness and to 
overcome the limits to its circulation. Likewise, it is necessary that 
online platforms incorporate local works into their catalogues, 
facilitate their findability and prominence, and invest a percentage of 
their profits in local production in other languages. Public support 
policies and the principles of EU audiovisual policies concerning 
European works must be in line with this strengthening. The 
transposition of the last Directive on audiovisual services to the 
legislations of the states and regions should include obligations for 
European works created in all the languages of each member state.

Cinema and audiovisual fiction are complex objects of study that bring 
together technological innovation and creativity, value for change, and 
value for use due to its socio-cultural dimension. We propose an 
approach to this subject from a broad perspective that goes from 
audiovisual communication policies in film and television studies. 
Indicatively, it may include articles on the following topics related to 
linguistic diversity in cinematography and audiovisual:
- Covid-19 effects.
- The meaning of cinema in minority languages.
- European policies.
- Circulation of films and other audiovisual fiction.
- Subtitling strategies.
- The dubbing.
- Diversity and accessibility.
- Production.
- Consumption.
- The "glocal" strategy.
- Prominence and findability.

 
*Covid-19 Chapter*
Exceptionally, the journal Quaderns del CAC opens a specific section for 
articles on how the Covid-19 health crisis has affected the field of 
audiovisual communication. We encourage you to disseminate your research 
on different communication topics related to the pandemic, such as those 
proposed below:

- Audiences and consumption. - Disinformation and fact-checking.  - 
Incidents in the audiovisual industry.
- Advertising.
- Dissemination and public service. - Economy of the sector.
- Consequences in the labor and professional field. - Synergies facing 
the crisis.

Finally, we also encourage submissions addressed to the miscellaneous 
‘Articles’ section, focused on the ongoing research on audiovisual 
communication and culture. The call for papers for this section remains 
permanently open.

All texts must be original and unpublished and not subject to the 
selection procedure of another journal. They will be submitted to the 
double-blind peer review process. Quaderns del CAC commits to inform the 
authors of the positive or negative outcome of the evaluation within a 
maximum of one and a half months after submission. Texts must be 
presented according the journal’s style guidelines 
(https://www.cac.cat/sites/default/files/QdCAC_Manuscript_guidelines.pdf). 
Originals in Catalan, Spanish and English are accepted.

Articles should be sent to (quadernsdelcac /at/ gencat.cat). There is no 
article processing charge.

Quaderns del CAC is an annual electronic journal published entirely in 
English, Spanish and Catalan. For further information, back issues are 
available here (https://www.cac.cat/acords-recerca/revista-quaderns-del-cac)

Here you can find the call for papers also in Catalan 
(https://bit.ly/34zvvJl) and Spanish (https://bit.ly/3riKu4g)

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