[ecrea] Call for papers: 'New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies'

Call for papers: 'New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies'

Culture Lab, Newcastle University, 16 November 2012

A one day conference in collaboration between Newcastle University's 
Research Centre in Film & Digital Media and the University of 
Sunderland's Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, with 
keynote speaker Professor Bridget Fowler of the University of Glasgow.

Despite the profound influence of Pierre Bourdieu's work in the fields 
of sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies, it has been less 
extensively employed in research in the fields of film and media. 
Certainly for film, this is partially explained by a lack of direct 
comment by Bourdieu on the subject (the short essay "Culture is in 
danger" (2000) represents the most striking exception in this regard). 
Although Bourdieu has written more extensively on media, this has 
certainly not produced what one might call a Bourdieu school of media 
studies. The aim of the conference, therefore, is to explore new uses of 
Bourdieu in film and media research.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
*      symbolic violence: making the invisible visible
*      film space and social space
*      the engaged intellectual in film and media
*      film and artistic autonomy
*      film/media as serving/resisting cultural, social and political 
reproduction
*      film/media's potential to reinforce or to resist masculine domination
*      taste, distinction and canon formation
*      reflexivity in film and media

Proposals of 200 words along with a short biography should be sent by 
September 30 2012 to Guy Austin: (guy.austin /at/ ncl.ac.uk) and John Storey: 
(john.storey /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)