[Commlist] Scottish Film and Television: Where Now? Colloquium CFP

Scottish Film and Television: Where Now?
A Colloquium

*When:* Tue 11 June 2024, 10am-4pm
*Where:* Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (in person)

Since the publication of /Scottish Cinema: Texts and Contexts/ (Meir 
2014), /The New Scottish Cinema/ (Murray 2015) and Directory of World 
Cinema: Scotland (Nowlan and Finc 2015) there has been a notable absence 
of critical writing on Scottish Film and Television. Interest in 
Scottish screen cultures grew exponentially in the early part of the 
20^th century, with Duncan Petrie’s /Screening Scotland/ (2000) kick 
starting a period of sustained enquiry into questions of representation, 
identity, genre, working cultures and screen policy across film and 
television.

This followed on from the scene setting work of McArthur et al in 
Scottish film criticism’s originating text, /Scotch Reels/ (1982). 
Important work by a host of scholars such as Simon Brown, John Caughie, 
John Cook, David Martin-Jones, Sarah Neely, Jane Sillars, the 
aforementioned Murray and Petrie, among many others, brought about a 
flourishing of critical enquiry into Scottish film and television 
cultures in the early years of the 21^st century. Though even within 
this relative fecundity, a focus on cinema significantly outweighed that 
of television.

Yet, with the landscape of film and television in flux, amid changing 
habits of consumption, the growth in screen production in Scotland 
<https://www.screen.scot/news/2023/august/the-economic-value-of-the-screen-sector-in-scotland-in-2021>, 
and the 2022 closure of Edinburgh Filmhouse and the Edinburgh 
International Film Festival, critical enquiry into the health (or 
otherwise) of Scottish film and television feels more urgent than ever.

This colloquium intends to bring together scholars interested in 
Scottish Film and Television in the broadest sense and active at all 
different career stages. We anticipate a day of collective fermentation, 
in which ideas might be shared, networks created, and collaborations 
formed. We intend it to be informal and discursive, and early career 
researchers and PhD students are particularly welcomed. We hope that the 
colloquium might spark a renewed scholarly interest in Scottish Film and 
Television in the broadest, most pluralistic sense. We also aim to 
establish a network for Scottish Film and Television Studies.

To that end we are seeking expressions of interest for 10-minute 
individual or collective presentations in the following areas or on 
other topics that contributors identify as important or potentially 
important aspects of Scottish film and television research:

  * Neglected histories of Scottish Film and Television:
      o particular films, TV programmes, cast and crew who have been
        marginalised historically; unexplored written / film archives;
        unmade film/TV projects   * Issues of representation in 
Scottish Film and Television:
      o race, gender, class, disability etc   * Industries and 
Infrastructures:
      o Questions of cultural policy, screen agency strategies, capacity
        and infrastructure (e.g., studios)
      o Questions of cultural labour, precarity and workforce diversity
      o Comparative studies of other small nations or UK regional
        filmmaking entities
      o Approaches to Film and Screen Education (cultivating audiences,
        training filmmakers, schools, film schools, universities, etc.)
      o Screen tourism and purported economic benefits of inward
        investment in screen production   * Cultural and Intermedial 
relationships to literature and other media:
      o adaptation, genre, modes   * Direction of critical study:
      o Revising questions of national / transnational Scottish cinema(s)
Please send a 200-word proposal for a 15 minute paper, along with a 
50-word bio to Robert Munro ((RMunro /at/ qmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(RMunro /at/ qmu.ac.uk)>) 
*by Fri 8 March 2024*.



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