[ecrea] Homer@NECS 2014 CfP

Comparative Approaches to Movie-going, Exhibition and Reception



HoMER@NECS 2014, 19-21 June 2014, Milan, Italy.



Call for HoMER papers and panels at the NECS 2014 International Conference

Submission Deadline: 10th January, 2014

Please email all inquiries to Pierluigi Ercole, Email: (percole /at/ brookes.ac.uk)



Following last year successful HoMER@NECS conference in Prague, The 
History of Movie-going Exhibition and Reception (HoMER) group is 
organizing a series of panels within the NECS 2014 International 
Conference in Milan, Italy. HoMER gathers international scholars who 
research the complex phenomenon of the social and cultural experience 
cinema-going, film exhibition and reception from a multidisciplinary 
perspective.



After a productive review of the current state of research within this 
expanding field the time is right for developing comparative approaches 
to the numerous micro-historical national studies. The analysis of 
patterns and networks in film culture also calls for special attention 
to methodology. We aim to bring European perspectives on cinema-going 
and film exhibition into dialogue with US, Australian, African, South 
American and Asian research.



We support the submission of individual papers or pre-constituted panel 
proposals from HoMER members and interested non-members, as we seek to 
bring together scholars dealing with these subjects from all over the globe.



Possible topics:



•  The attention given to “top down” forces of industry, commerce and 
ideology as against “bottom up” forces of experience, consumption and 
escapism.

•  Contesting concepts of public and private space in media experience.

• Questions relating to cinema’s integration into to the metropolitan 
experience of modernity, compared to its role in the construction of 
community in less urbanized and rural areas.

• Film exhibition, cinema-going and film experience in relation to 
theories of imperialism, post-colonialism, etc.

•  Long term tendencies such as the rise of cinemas in rural and urban 
environments, the boom of cinema-going, the decay and subsequent closure 
of many (provincial and neighborhood) cinemas and the rise of multiplexes.

•   Tensions between commercial and/or ideological film exhibition, 
between urban and rural areas, and between provinces and regions.

•    Institutional developments, geographical location and programming 
trends.

•    Audience and film experiences in urban and rural contexts.

•    A comparative international perspective on cinema-going and exhibition.

•    Diasporic cinema-going practices.

•    Representations in films of cinema-going, film exhibition, film 
culture(s).

•   Reflections on methods: How to reconcile/combine large scale 
analysis with in depth case study How to link up national or regional 
databases on exhibition and cinema-going?



We explicitly invite non-HoMER scholars who are working on the mentioned 
topics and want to share their research with international colleagues. A 
selection of papers presented at the conference will be published in an 
edited volume in 2015 (publisher to be confirmed) HoMER@NECS 2014 will 
also be preceded by a one day HoMER workshop (practical information on 
the workshop will follow).



Practical information



You can submit an individual paper proposal or a pre-constituted panel 
proposal.  Panels may consist of 3 to 4 speakers with a maximum of 20 
minutes speaking time each. All presenters are obliged to provide a 
title, an abstract of maximum 150 words, 3 to 5 key bibliographical 
references, name of the presenter and institutional affiliation, plus a 
short panel rational (150 words max.) in case o pre-constituted panels.



Please submit all individual HoMER paper or HoMER panel proposals before 
10th January 2014 to Pierluigi Ercole ((percole /at/ brookes.ac.uk)). You will 
be notified of acceptance shortly thereafter.  Please note that HoMER 
papers and panels should not be submitted via the NECS online submission 
system, but via e-mail to Pierluigi Ercole, as they will be reviewed 
separately by the HoMER 2014 programming team.



The HoMER programming team:

Daniel Biltereyst

Pierluigi Ercole

Mariagrazia Fanchi

Phillippe Meers

Clara Pafoort-Overduin

John Sedgwick

Judith Thissen

Daniela Treveri-Gennari

Lies Van de Vijver



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