[ecrea] CFP ECREA Film Studies conference: Multivoicedness and European Cinema: Representation, Industry, Politics

CALL FOR PAPERS

Multivoicedness and European Cinema: Representation, Industry, Politics

Conference date: Friday 10th and Saturday 11th November 2017

Venue: University College Cork, Ireland

Organised by: ECREA Film Studies Section

Deadline for abstracts: 2 May 2017

Conference website: https://ecreafilmstudies2017.wordpress.com


European cinema has evolved from a homogenous and selective object of 
study, mostly shaped by frameworks of national industry, identity and 
culture, to a much more diversified field, reflecting the shift to a 
post-colonial, post-communist, post-national, globalised Europe. In the 
context of an increasingly diverse but also split society, in which 
social polarisation is on the increase due to the crisis of the Eurozone 
and the decline of the welfare states, and in which populism and 
nationalisms are on the rise, resulting in the strengthening of the 
Fortress Europe project, this conference aims to turn the spotlight on 
the less-represented and less-audible voices in European cinema in all 
its forms: fiction, documentary, mainstream, art house, independent, 
exploitation, art film. With an inclusive focus encompassing issues of 
production, distribution and reception, of representation and of form, 
of dissent and of control, the conference invites contributions that 
engage from a wide range of theoretical perspectives and methodological 
approaches with the politics of difference and with the representation 
and/or expression of alternative viewpoints in European films / in films 
made in Europe.

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire)

Professor Chris Wahl (Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf)

Abstractsare invited on topics related to Multivoicedness in European 
Cinema, including but not limited to:

  * Multivoicedness in national and transnational European cinemas
  * Peripheries, borders, and grey areas: falling between the cracks,
    speaking from the margins
  * Ethics and/or aesthetics of alternative voices
  * Audiodescription, subtitling and dubbing of multivoiced films
  * Cultural and market negotiations: translating cultures, crossing 
borders
  * Participation, dissent, resistance: audiences, politics, and public
    discourse
  * Alternative European cinemas and the global market
  * Other voices: niche markets, new forms of consumption
  * Deterritorialising identities, becoming migrant/minoritarian
  * Polyglot cinema: speaking from multiple subject positions
  * Genders and genres: decentering and in-betweenness
  * Alternative film festivals and other cinemas
  * Speaking in tongues: the audiences of multivoiced films
  * Queering European cinema
  * Nonfiction and commitment: documenting the silenced subject
  * Speaking for oneself: multiple forms of first-person filmmaking
  * Transnational, cosmopolitan, global: what European cinema?
  * A continent in motion: multiple commitments, divided belongings
  * The “New Europeans” in films / making films
  * Margins of industrial practices, alternative forms of production,
    distribution and reception
  * Speaking parts: person, character, actor, star

The conference will also be the host to special panel sections prepared 
by the HoMER network (History of Moviegoing, Exhibition and Reception) 
and FFRN (Film Festival Research network).

Abstract submission: Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) along 
with key references, institutional affiliation and a short bio (max 150 
words) or a panel proposal, including a panel presentation (max 300 
words) along with minimum 3, maximum 4 individual abstracts.

Submission deadline: May 2^nd 2017.

Proposal acceptance notification:June 23^rd 2017.

Please send your abstract/panel proposals to the conference email 
address:(filmstudiesecrea /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(filmstudiesecrea /at/ gmail.com)>

Submissions for the HoMER sectionshould be sent to Daniela Treveri 
Gennari: (dtreveri-gennari /at/ brookes.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(dtreveri-gennari /at/ brookes.ac.uk)>and submissions for the FFRN 
section should be sent to Skadi Loist: (skadi.loist /at/ uni-rostock.de) 
<mailto:(skadi.loist /at/ uni-rostock.de)>.

ECREA membership is not required to participate in the conference. 
Delegates will be required to contribute towards administrative and 
catering costs.

Conference details: The Conference is hosted and supported by the 
Department of Film and Screen Media, University College of Cork, 
Ireland: http://www.ucc.ie/en/filmstudies/

Conference organisers:Laura Rascaroli (University College Cork), Sergio 
Villanueva Baselga (Universitat de Barcelona), Helle Kannik Haastrup 
(University of Copenhagen), Anders Marklund (University of Lund), 
Gertjan Willems (Ghent University).

Conference email address: (filmstudiesecrea /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(filmstudiesecrea /at/ gmail.com)>

Conference website:https://ecreafilmstudies2017.wordpress.com


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