[ecrea] CFP: Sydney Screen Studies Network 2017 Symposium

Call-for-Papers:
Sydney Screen Studies Network Symposium 2017

We are currently seeking proposals for our End-of-Year Symposium that 
will cap off our 2017 program: Intersections in Film and Media Studies.

In her Fall 2014 Film Quarterly editorial film theorist B. Ruby Rich writes,
“Cinema itself is in a state of immense transition, yet it’s hard not to 
notice that attention is lavished disproportionately on technology and 
auteurist style, with the question of theme, focus, and subject matter 
repeatedly sidelined. What, though, is “filmable” today? And what is 
“theorizable” in response?”
Rich highlights how academic and journalistic discussions of the ‘new 
media’ landscape in recent years have focused largely on technology and 
industry over content, theorisation, and disciplinary boundaries. 
Considerable academic work has examined how the conditions of the 
convergence era have been enabled by and impact upon technology, 
production, distribution, and consumption and the media industry more 
broadly (Turner & Tay 2009; Gripsrund 2010; Lotz 2014; Haven & Lotz 
2017). Building on this work, this symposium seeks to engage with the 
convergence of film and media at the level of content, authorship, 
genre, aesthetics, style and form.
While today ‘cinema’ is an increasingly fluid term that moves across 
platforms, genres, and textual boundaries, in this symposium we are 
interested in what it means to study cinema and/or other forms of 
screen-media in today’s increasingly fractured media landscape. This 
symposium will explore the transitional nature of contemporary screen 
studies and the movement of scholarship, theory, and ideas across its 
boundaries. We invite scholars working across film, television, video, 
and internet genres to present on topics such as:
Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to screen media
Applying a single discipline to study a screen text not in that discipline
In what ways are different screen-based media texts informing and 
shaping one another?
What are the textual, generic and/or aesthetic boundaries that define 
film/television/video today?
What is the place of screen audiences in the increasingly 
convergent/divergent media landscape?
What is the continuing value of single discipline approaches in a 
critical landscape dominated by interdisciplinary screen studies?
What is lost when single discipline approaches are incorporated into 
screen studies?
Proposed title, abstract (300 words), short biography and institutional 
affiliation should be sent to (sssnsymposium2017 /at/ gmail.com) by 10 November 
2017.

The Symposium will take place on Friday 8th December 2017 at UNSW 
Randwick. All papers will be considered for an edited special journal 
issue, pending editorial approval. We particularly encourage 
postgraduate and early career researchers to apply.
For any queries or further information on the Sydney Screen Studies 
Network, please direct your questions to the above email address or 
visit sydneyscreenstudies.wordpress.com

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