[Commlist] Film Studios conference

*Call for Papers*

*Film Studios: Histories, Evolution, Innovation, Futures*

*5-7 June 2023*

*University of Bristol*

The ERC-funded STUDIOTEC project welcomes proposals for individual 
twenty-minute papers and pre-formed three-paper panels for *Film 
Studios: Histories, Evolution, Innovation, Futures*,**an in-person, 
three-day conference organised by the University of Bristol, UK, and 
held at the Watershed, Bristol, 5-7 June 2023.

Academic interest in the spaces and places of film production has grown 
in recent years, and this conference will take stock of recent and 
current research into film studios around the world. While ideas of the 
Hollywood studio system have tended to dominate the collective 
imaginary, recent research has made clear that different film studios 
have evolved in distinct ways in response to varying local contexts. It 
is this diversity that the conference wishes to emphasise, exploring 
commonalities between film production infrastructure in different parts 
of the world while noting the specific factors that have shaped the 
development of film studios in different geographical temporal, 
political and economic circumstances.

Intended to demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of studio studies, 
*Film Studios: Histories, Evolution, Innovation, Futures*will explore 
film studios as a global phenomenon, considering their material as well 
as economic and socio-cultural dimensions and the links they have 
established with the various environments within which they operate. The 
conference aims to highlight the diverse range of practices and labour 
types that contribute to the successful operation of a film studio, the 
key role that studios have played in film production and technical 
innovation, and how studios have shaped the professional and social 
lives of film industry employees.

We are interested in all areas of studio studies, and in film studios in 
all periods and all parts of the world, but would be especially 
interested to receive proposals for papers or panels looking at:

  * The influence of geographical, political and economic contexts on
    the location, development and operation of film studios
  * Film studios outside Western Europe and North America
  * The studio as a working environment (training and careers,
    professional practices, labour conditions, health and safety)
  * How film studios adapt to technological innovation (sound, colour,
    digital, etc.)
  * Women in film studios
  * The studio as a social space (exchange and circulation of cultural
    and professional practices, cooperation between studios, leisure
    activities)
  * The architecture and design of film studios
  * The representation of film studios in popular culture
  * Film studios’ intermediality (intersection with different media,
    e.g., broadcasting studios)
  * Networks of film production (studios’ ancillary services)
  * Archives and resources relevant to the academic study of film studios
  * Transnationality and film studios (co-production, movement of
    labour, etc.)
  * What does the future hold for film studios?

**

*Proposals for individual papers* must include an abstract (max 250 
words) and a short speaker biography (max 100 words).

*Panel proposals*must include a 150-word rationale for the panel, a 
250-word abstract for each of the three papers, and a biography for each 
speaker of no more than 100 words.

*The deadline for submitting proposals is 10 February 2023, and 
proposals should be submitted to **(c.mereukeating /at/ bristol.ac.uk)* 
<mailto:(c.mereukeating /at/ bristol.ac.uk)>*or **(richard.farmer /at/ bristol.ac.uk)* 
<mailto:(richrad.farmer /at/ bristol.ac.uk)>**

*Notification of acceptance will be sent out in March 2023.*

*For more information about the STUDIOTEC project, please visit 
**https://studiotec.info/* <https://studiotec.info/>**

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