[ecrea] CFP: #CinemaIsDead Conference

***CFP: #CinemaIsDead Conference (New deadline - 9 December)***

CFP 2017: #CinemaIsDead NEW WAYS OF SHOWING, WATCHING AND TELLING

The 3rd International Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media 
Conference University College Cork, Cork, Ireland 18 –19 May 2017

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Dr. Rod Stoneman (Huston School of Film and Screen 
Media, NUI Galway) and Dr. Virginia Crisp (Kings College London)

  “Thirty-five years of silent cinema is gone, no one looks at it 
anymore. This will happen to the rest of Cinema. Cinema is dead.” 
(Greenway, 2007)

Is cinema dying, is it dead, or is it just different? We have been 
listening to a century-long death knell and declarations about the end 
of cinema for decades. A more astute question might be, “what even is 
cinema anymore?” Critics are filling up the internet-scape and academic 
journals, lambasting (or defending) the constant modification of a form 
of visual media that arguably looks entirely unrecognisable today in 
comparison to its original debut in the 1890s. The tools are changing, 
the speed is changing, the media is changing, everyone can do it, anyone 
can watch it, and even the message is changing with a changing society. 
Bearing this in mind, is cinema truly dead or, perhaps, “more alive than 
ever, more multi-faceted, more abundant, more omnipresent than it has 
ever been” (Dubois, 2010).

  We are excited to host the 3rd Alphaville Conference in May 2017, 
exploring these essential questions about the fundamental nature and 
current state of this billion-dollar industry. In addition to papers, 
and in keeping with the conference theme of new forms, we also invite 
different forms of presentation including, for example, video essays.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• The role of film and screen media in the 21st century
• New departures in production / funding / distribution / exhibition
• Cinephilia in the digital age • Accessible cinema and the role of the 
filmmaker
• Democracy of filmmaking: YouTube, Periscope, Facebook live etc.
• Remakes and Discrepancies • Movements in contemporary national cinemas
• Convergence and Intermedia: new methods of storytelling via 
transmedia, multimedia and interactive media
• Rebranding TV and Cinema: Netflix & Co.
• Online festivals, community festivals
• Ecologies of film
• Sustainability and the cinema of small nations
• Film versus digital media — changing the process of filmmaking and 
audiovisual aesthetics?
• Empowered minorities: Social cinema, citizen journalism and video as a 
tool of protest
• Video on-demand and piracy: the decline of movie going?
• Haptic cinema: From 2D to 8D and beyond • Social implications of 
on-demand culture
• Hashtags, New Media, Vlogs, Live / Life Streaming
• Developments in contemporary animation
• Cinema in the Anthropocene
• New perspectives: Use of drone and GoPro cameras / footage

Pre-formed panels (of 3 or 4 people) will also be considered. Potential 
contributors are invited to submit a 250–300 word abstract, 3–5 keywords 
and a short biographical note by 9 December 2016 to 
(alphavilleconference2017 /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(alphavilleconference2017 /at/ gmail.com)>

http://cinemaisdead.alphavillejournal.com


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