[ecrea] CALL FOR PAPERS: Radical Readings/Radical Texts: Politics, Spectatorship, and the Moving Image

Please note that we have extended the deadline for abstracts to be 
submitted for the Radical Readings/Radical Texts symposium taking place 
at Canterbury Christ Church University on March 15th 2014. The new 
deadline for submissions is Monday 13th January 2014.

Please find full details for the symposium below:
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Radical Readings/Radical Texts: Politics, 
Spectatorship, and the Moving Image*
*CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY*
*Canterbury, Kent, UK*
*Saturday 15 **^th **March 2014*

This one-day symposium for researchers interested in the study of the 
moving image aims to explore the interdisciplinary notions of radical 
politics and spectatorship.

As new media forms create new distinctions and types of audiences, and 
as traditional and digital forms merge, there is a need for a new era of 
study of the political implications of the spectatorship of the moving 
image. This symposium will examine how texts or forms engage with 
politics, either in direct ways within the texts, or in the gaps between 
each medium and its audience. How does a text reveal itself politically? 
Does it draw attention to its political stance, or is this deliberately 
obscured?

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations from academics and early 
career researchers across arts and humanities, welcoming papers that 
investigate politics and spectatorship that can be studied through a 
variety of methods. Possible subjects include, but are not limited to:

   * The relationship between political texts and audiences
   * Casting and/or characterisation – who is cast in specific roles
     and what the implications might be
   * Types of audiences: national, transnational, community etc., and
     how they are addressed or involved within the text
   * Issues of representation
   * The merging of the ‘home movie’ and professional film,
     ‘pro-sumer’, amateur filmmaking – the democratising effects
   * Textual analysis of specific scenes, films, programmes, moving
     image texts, including video games
   * Audience engagement and interpretation of media

Please send abstracts (200 words) and a short biographical note to 
(james.newton /at/ canterbury.ac.uk) <mailto:(james.newton /at/ canterbury.ac.uk)>

With any queries, please feel free to contact us at the same e-mail address.