[Commlist] cfp: Filmic and Media Narratives of the Crisis : Contemporary Representations

Conference: */Filmic and Media Narratives of the Crisis : Contemporary 
Representations/*

*//*

  November 7 – 8, 2019, Athens

Call for papers:

The crisis narrated by the cinema and the media-stories (fictional and « 
informative ») is an ideal topic reflecting thoughts, doubts, and fears 
of our societies. Beginning with the cinema (its allegories and 
transcriptions of the social and political actions) and continuing with 
any imaginal narration of the contemporary social issues (the crisis 
being a major one) this conference invites analysis research of the 
contemporary narrations of the media in order to finally « capture » the 
dominant myths sustaining our everyday life.

The “success stories” usually describe issues concerning the struggle 
for power and control (including cases of the formed zones of security 
and insecurity, of the role and mobilization of technological issues, of 
the elites chosen to affront the crisis etc.). In filmic stories 
individual heroes become the protagonists of “world salvation” 
(reductionist pedagogy as far as it concerns the crisis, giving 
nevertheless a dominant perception concerning the nowadays division of 
the world into security and insecurity zones where regions like 
Mediterranean Sea become “frontier lands”). We need to mention here the 
different /war representations /(including the economic war) given that 
the absolute crisis in history is « war » (including periods of Law 
exceptions, of social radicalizations, where societies play for their 
survival, the dissolution and the *re-arrangement *of a certain relation 
to the world and of new definitions of the “social link”).

Some main axes of investigation proposed for this conference are (not 
exclusively) the following:

Representations;

Heroes and Victims;

Propagandas (triumph of a dominant model of thought) using dreams, myths 
and ideals;

Dialogue between dominant myths and peripheral reflections;

Cultural Industries and local productions;

Film, Media Receptions & Cultural Studies (the decoding of spectators 
and the understanding of different narratives);

Abstracts (around 500 words) must be sent before *April 30th* to the 
address: (recitsfilmiquesdelacrise /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(recitsfilmiquesdelacrise /at/ gmail.com)>


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