[ecrea] Call - Symbiotic Cinema

You are warmly invited to I warmly to the forthcoming event:
  24th SERCIA international conference *

Symbiotic Cinema: Film and Other Media

****6-8 September 2018, Sweden* Hosted by Linnaeus University Centre for 
Intermedial and Multimodal Studies, campus Växjö

The present Film and Television conference, calls for rationale and 
analysis that bears on cinema/television as**technical media and its 
characteristics. Proponents are invited to establish connections with 
other media, within English-speaking countries. Both theoretical and 
practical analysis of film and other media are accepted. Possible topics 
include but are not limited to the following:

  * Definition of media, intermediality, intramediality.
  * Mediation, remediation, transmediation processes.
  * Narrative adaptation, cinematic /ekphrasis/.
  * Media characteristics and/or essence.
  * Pure and impure media/cinema.
  * Cinema as a limited or superior medium.
  * “Old”, new, and residual media.
  * Digital cinema.
  * Post-cinema.
  * Hybridity and media borders.
  * New perspectives on the history/archaeology of cinema and other media.
  * The aesthetics of cinema and other media technologies.
  * Cinema/television and art forms: new artistic languages.
  * Cinema/television and society: social uses of media.
  * Cinema/television and ideology: the politics of media.
  * Cinema/television as communication.
  * Immersive qualities and spectatorial adhesion.
  * The invisible and the virtual.
  * Different products, different spectators.

*Keynote speakers: *

François Jost – Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, France.

Lúcia Nagib – University of Reading, UK.

Miriam De Rosa – Coventry University, UK.

**

*Submission: *

The language of the conference is _English_. Individual presentations 
must not exceed 20 minutes. Please send your proposal containing an 
abstract (500 words max.), 5 key-words, and a short bio (120 max.) until 
15^th February 2018 to the two followingemail addresses: 
(chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com)>and (ims /at/ lnu.se) 
<mailto:(ims /at/ lnu.se)>Upon acceptance, speakers will be required to become 
SERCIA members for 2017.


*Conference fees: *600 SEK (65 €) for lecturers/professors/independent 
scholars; 300 SEK (35 €) for students/retired colleagues, which cover 
meals and other arrangements.

*Contact: *Fátima Chinita ((chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(chinita.estc /at/ gmail.com)>) and Eva Larsson ((ims /at/ lnu.se) 
<mailto:(ims /at/ lnu.se)>).


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