[ecrea] VIEW Journal CFP: Archive Based Productions

VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
Call for Papers: Archive Based Productions
Vol. 4, Issue 8, Fall 2015

In 1927, when Esfir Schub released her commissioned film The fall of the 
Romanov Dynasty to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the October 
Revolution, she hardly knew that her extensive use of film footage and 
newsreels of the event would mark the invention of a new ‘genre’: the 
archive based production or compilation genre. Television has adopted 
this genre, but audiovisual archives have fuelled a wide array of 
programmes and genres beyond compilation productions.

Government, business, broadcast and film archives as well as amateur 
collections and home videos are commonly used to spark memories and 
re-enact events from the past in various contexts. They are made widely 
accessible and re-used in traditional broadcast productions or given a 
second life in digital environments through online circulation.

This issue of VIEW invites scholars, archivists, producers and other 
practitioners to consider, highlight and elaborate on the use and re-use 
of moving image archives in media productions (for cinema, television, 
web, etc.). Contributions are welcome in the form of (short) articles or 
video essays.

Proposals are invited to explore (but not limited to) the following 
topics and questions:

- Has the digital environment created a paradigm shift in the use of 
audiovisual archival materials?
- The authenticity of audiovisual archives in the digital environment;
- In what ways can audiovisual archives transform our relationship to 
the past? What is the role of archives in helping us reconnect with or 
understand the past? How do national/organisational archive policies 
impact or limit the histories that are informed by these archives?
- The audio-visual archive as proof, testimony or document of reality, 
as shared heritage or collective memory;
- Case studies using moving images as historical sources;
- The use of archives in creative productions;
- Ahistoricism in the use of audiovisual archival materials;
- Found footage in moving image productions;
- Compilation programmes studied through issues of representation, 
distribution, production, reception, etc;
- Various formats and subgenres of compilation programmes: biographies, 
historical productions, art forms, etc;
- Comparative studies of the compilation genre;
- The search for identity in audiovisual archive collections;
- The use of national audiovisual collections in a European or 
international context.

Practical

- Contributions are encouraged from authors with different kinds of 
expertise and interests in television and media history.
- Paper proposals (max. 500 words) are due on January 31st, 2015.
- Submissions should be sent to the managing editor of the journal, Dana 
Mustata ((journal /at/ euscreen.eu) <mailto:(journal /at/ euscreen.eu)>). A notice of 
acceptance will be sent to authors in the 3rd week of February
- Articles (2 – 4,000 words) will be due on May 15th 2015.
- The VIEW Archive Based Productions Vol. 4, Issue 8, is planned for 
Fall 2015
- For further information or questions about the issue, please contact 
the co-editors: Mette Charis Buchman ((mch /at/ dr.dk) <mailto:(mch /at/ dr.dk)>) and 
Claude Mussou ((cmussou /at/ ina.fr) <mailto:(cmussou /at/ ina.fr)>)

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