[ecrea] Call for Chapters: Screen Policies: Geographies, Economics, Technologies

Call for Chapters: Screen Policies: Geographies, Economics, Technologies
Editors: Nolwenn Mingant (Université de Nantes, France), David Newman 
(Simon Fraser University, Canada), Cecilia Tirtaine (Université Sorbonne 
nouvelle-Paris 3, France)
https://www.academia.edu/10275010/Screen_Policies_Geographies_Economics_Technologies

In 1996, Albert Moran published a seminal overview of film policy in 
different parts of the world. Since then, the screen media environment 
has significantly changed. Globalization has made the screen media 
environment less constrained geographically by impacting the production 
and distribution of screen media contents. Technologies have also 
revolutionized the media environment. Distribution platforms have 
evolved: film is now frequently digital; television content is streamed 
over the Internet to a variety of different screens; digital games have 
become a much larger and more ubiquitous medium played on a variety of 
devices, including cellphones. Growing synergies have appeared between 
different media, leading to the idea of ‘transmedia content’ and ‘media 
convergence.’

Government and industry policies have adapted to this changed 
environment. Film policies have been the first to adapt. Incentive wars 
have intensified between different regions across the world seeking to 
attract internationally mobile productions. Most States have continued 
to worry over suitability of some content for their local audiences, as 
reflected through censorship and
ratings schemes. The layering of policies over the intranational, 
national and supranational policy regimes has led to more complex 
situations. Measures to protect culture and to nurture local screen 
industries have been increasingly challenged under international trade 
regimes. Whereas previously film was at the centre of cultural policies 
globally, those policies are now starting to
incorporate other forms of screen media, notably video games.

Following the success of the CinEcoSA research cycle on Screen Policies 
(see www.cinecosa.com), we are now calling for chapter proposals for a 
peer-reviewed edited volume to be entitled Screen Policies: Geographies, 
Economics and Technologies. This volume will explore and interrogate the 
shifts and changes in both government and industry-based screen policies 
over the past 30 years.

The volume will cover different types of screens: movie theatres, 
television (notably video and videogames), computers (Internet), 
smartphones. It will include chapters that cover a diverse range of 
screen industries from different parts of the world, along with the 
interrelationship between different localities, policy regimes and 
technologies/media.

Particular areas we are seeking chapters on include:
Nature of Screen Policies
• Theoretical chapters and /or review of literature on screen policies 
around the world
• Case studies of screen industry policy in specific regions, 
particularly those outside of Europe and North America (though 
contributions from those regions are welcome as well)
• Emerging policies in developing markets
• Motivations of public powers for creating/updating/abandoning screen 
policies
• Criteria for aid and impact on screen media policies on media content
• State policies vs. industry-led policy (such as voluntary rating 
systems), partnerships between public and private spheres
• Protective policies: censorship, quotas, licensing, copyright

International Relations
• Interrelationships of policy and regulation between local, national 
and supra-national institutions
• Influences and impact of international trade regimes on screen policies
• Competition between regions via incentive schemes
• Co-production treaties
• Support for exports
• Role of screen policies in diplomatic relations

New technologies
• Adaptation of screen policies to the new technological context: 
adaptation of older models or creation of innovative models?
• Regulation of access to new technologies such as streaming TV, mobile 
content, video games
• Support for trans-media initiatives

Please send you proposal (title, 400-word abstract, 4 bibliographical 
references, brief biography) to David Newman ((dbnewman /at/ sfu.ca)) and 
Nolwenn Mingant
((nolwenn.mingant /at/ univ-nantes.fr)) by March 1st, 2015.

Notification of acceptance: April 30th, 2015.

Completed chapters due August 25th, 2015. Chapter length: 6,000 words 
maximum (footnotes and bibliographical references included)


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