[Commlist] CFA: Fire on Screen: media, cinema and video-storytelling

Call for Abstracts: Fire on the screen: media, cinema and video-storytelling

The 1st International Congress on Fire in the Earth System: Humans and 
Nature, November 3-7, 2021 (Valencia, Spain), will focus one session to 
media and film coverage of wildfires. You are invited to submit your 
proposal (short abstracts for oral presentations or posters).

Please find, following, the description and read the information about 
submissions and registering.

Congress site:https://firecongress.eu <https://firecongress.eu>

Call for Abstracts:https://firecongress.eu/call-for-abstracts/ 
<https://firecongress.eu/call-for-abstracts/>(Deadline September 15^th , 
2021)

*Session 9, Fire on the screen: media, cinema and video-storytelling.*

Media and popular culture are paying increasing attention to wildfires. 
Television and cinema, in particular, are reporting and representing 
forest fires in a variety of genres and formats. In recent years, with 
the proliferation of superfires, these representations also involve the 
spectacularization of forest fires by exploiting dramatic perspectives 
and the mediatization of firefighting. As well as providing 
entertainment, television networks and media spend an enormous amount of 
time and effort on reporting the tragedies caused by forest fires, 
sometimes replicating the aesthetics of drama and fiction. How do all 
these productions interact with scientific efforts to prevent and 
extinguish wildfires? Are journalistic or entertainment productions in 
tune with risk communication premises?

This session is open to research work and reflections on how forest 
fires have been represented on screen. A call is made for studies on 
television coverage, reports and documentaries, as well as in-depth 
readings of cinematographic productions or more ethnographic approaches 
to working with video-storytelling. The session is also open to 
journalists, filmmakers, or producers who will talk about their 
experiences in covering forest fires. The call is open to:

- Analyses of audiovisual journalistic coverage of forest fires.

- Studies on the spectacularization or journalistic frames of wildfires.

- Close reading of documentaries and fictions focused on wildfires.

- Evidence on the impact and influence on audiences.

- Studies on audiovisual, TV or cinema productions, from documentaries 
to fictions.

Convener for the Session 9

Enric Castelló, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, 
Spain.((enric.castello /at/ urv.cat) <mailto:(enric.castello /at/ urv.cat)>)

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