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[Commlist] CFP: Animation Studios: People, Spaces, Labor

Fri Oct 06 20:47:26 GMT 2023




Iluminace 3/2024
Animation Studios: People, Spaces, Labor

Guest Editors: Ewa Ciszewska (University of Lodz, PL), Pavel Skopal (Masaryk University, CZ)

Deadline for abstracts: November 30, 2023
Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2024

In the 1980s, after a long hiatus, Film Studies began to pay attention to the division of labor in the film industry from a historical perspective. Much of this was due to the publication of The Classical Hollywood Cinema by David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, and Kristin Thompson. At the beginning of the 21st century, American media scholar John T. Caldwell spurred a major revival of so-called production studies and research on the media industry and film studios as places of work, careers, and shared values and norms. The methodological impetus for research on film studios has been provided by the work of media and visual culture historian Brian Jacobson, who has put forward the possibilities of studying film studios as virtual and material environments; as symbols that take on a wide range of meanings; or as points at which different forms of scientific and technical knowledge, different technologies, resources, and materials, and groups of professionals of different competencies intersect. This has been followed up by a recent project led by British film historian Sarah Street Film Studios: Infrastructure, Culture, Innovation in Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, 1930–60.

The project of comparative research on Czechoslovak and Polish animation studios, led by the editors of the forthcoming issue of Iluminace, Pavel Skopal and Ewa Ciszewska, seeks to provide new methodological inspiration. The project draws on the prosopographical approach as applied in relation to the field theories of the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu; the concept of art worlds of the American sociologist of art Howard S. Becker; the actor-network theory of Bruno Latour; and social network analysis, which allows to describe and explain the role of social contacts, distribution of knowledge and different types of capital, or the role of intermediaries in the professional environment. Investigating the history of two social worlds of animation film production operating in Central Europe allows for a new path of research on film history by internalizing the objectives of film production studies and combining them with the tools of art sociology and relational sociology.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:
* emigration and adaptation to working standards and artistic conventions in a new professional
milieu
* structuring the field of animated film, analysis of the relative autonomy of the filmmaking
field, and heteronomous influences
* analysis of the conventions of animation production in a selected studio
* analysis of the professional and social ties of the studio staff working in creative and technical
professions
* description of the actor-networks involved in the process of animation production * the process of professionalization of amateur filmmakers and adaptation to studio conditions
* spatial, architectural, and urban dimensions of animation film studios
* social or gender characteristics of animation production in the studio
* the history of education in the field of animation film, cooperation between educational
and production institutions, art schools, and film studios
* international cooperation and coordination between animation studios

For further inspiration, see the literature cited at: <https://www.iluminace.cz/index.php/en/submissions <https://www.iluminace.cz/index.php/en/submissions>>

Please send an abstract (250 words) and a short bio (150 words) to (lucie.cesalkova /at/ nfa.cz <http://nfa.cz>), (ewa.ciszewska /at/ uni.lodz.pl <http://uni.lodz.pl>), and (skopal /at/ phil.muni.cz <http://phil.muni.cz>) by November 30, 2023. The authors will be informed of the decision by January 31, 2024. The deadline for submitting the full article is April 30, 2024. No payments are required.

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