[Commlist] Call for Papers: Reframing Film Festivals

*Call for Papers *

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*/Reframing Film Festivals: Histories, Economies, Cultures/*

*International Film Studies Conference*

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Venice, 11-12 February, 2020

Bari, 25-26 March, 2020

*Abstract Proposal Deadline: *15 October 2019

*Confirmed Keynote Speakers:*

Gian Piero Brunetta, Università degli Studi di Padova

Gianni Canova, IULM Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione

Marijke de Valck, Utrecht University

Jean-Michel Frodon, Sciences-Po

Dina Iordanova, University of St Andrews

Roy Menarini, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

Dorota Ostrowska, Birkbeck, University of London


Throughout the 2000s the number of film festivals has increased all over 
the world at a tremendous pace. In 2019 FilmFreeway lists about eight 
thousand festivals as currently active, about twice the amount of less 
than a decade ago. Various factors prompted such a terrific growth, such 
as: festivals orchestrating the (trans)national production and 
distribution of cinema; festivals pivotally stimulating the touristic 
and economic development of their hosting community; festivals acting as 
cultural arbiters of taste and quality; etc. The scale of festivals 
today has not passed unnoticed, contributing to the emergence of a 
specific area of scholarly interest. In the last decade, the field of 
film festival studies has gained strength and status, focusing entirely 
on understanding the functions, the history and the role of film festivals.

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/Reframing Film Festivals: Histories, Economies and Cultures /– the 
conference organised by the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the 
Aldo Moro University of Bari, in collaboration with the the Apulia Film 
Commission, the Consulta Universitaria Cinema, and the Associazione 
Italiana per le Ricerche di Storia del Cinema – seeks to contribute to 
this field of research through a series of roundtables and debates 
involving film critics, practitioners and scholars. In particular, the 
conference is aimed at (re)framing the understanding of these 
institutions and their nature by proposing three approaches, different 
but interweaved:

-A historiographical approach, one set to explore the ways film 
festivals contribute to shape the writing of film (and media)//history, 
moulding the canon formation and informing aesthetic hierarchies.

-A culturalist approach, one set to investigate how film festivals, by 
championing certain discourses /of /and /on /cinema and media, 
contribute to articulate and re-position specific national, cultural, 
gender identities.

-An economic approach, one set to analyse the process by which film 
festivals add value within the film industry as much as to local 
touristic economies.

In this vein, /Reframing Film Festivals: Histories, Economies, Cultures 
/seeks to foster an interdisciplinary and intersectional reading of film 
festivals, here conceived as a historiographic “dispositive”, as 
cultural formations and as financial institutions. Within a single and 
cohesive research framework, the Ca’ Foscari strandwill be devoted to 
the critical-historic and historiographic dimension of film festivals, 
while at the University of Bari the focus will be placed on their 
cultural and economic dimension.


Therefore submissions, with both an empirical and/or a theoretical 
approach, are welcomed across a range of topics including, but not 
limited to:

-The festival-form: histories and theories

-Film festivals and historiographic paradigms

-Film festivals, aesthetic regimes and taste cultures

-Micro-histories of film festivals

-Politics of selection and programming in film festivals

-Festival films/films for festivals

-Artistic directors, jury members, selection boards

-Editorial outputs of film festivals

-The audiences of film festivals

-Film festivals, cinephilia and criticism

-Film festivals and national identities

-Film festivals and geopolitics

-Film festivals, ethnocentrism, exoticism

-Film festivals and cultural consumption

-Film festivals and gender

-Film festivals and race

-Thematic and retrospective film festivals

-Archival film festivaland contemporary historiography

-TV and web festivals

-Virtual reality festivals

-“Small” film festivals: roles and functions

-Film festivals and LGBTQI+ cultures

-Erotic and pornographic film festivals

-The films festivals’ circuit and the global film market

-Film festivals: transnational distribution and production

-Film festivals and film funds

-Film festivals and digital platforms

-Business models of film festivals

-Film festivals and economic satellite activities

-Film festivals and (cine)tourism

-Film festivals and the fashion industry

-Film festivals and celebrity culture

-Fundraising for film festivals

-Film festivals and sponsorship

We welcome proposals from scholars, film critics and film festival 
practitioners for traditional 20-minute individual presentations and 
panel proposals. The deadline for the submissions is *15 October 2019 
*and interested contributors should send a 300-500 word abstract and a 
short biographical note at the following email address: 
(reframingfilmfestival /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(reframingfilmfestival /at/ gmail.com)>. The accepted proposals will be 
notified by *31 October 2019. The languages of the conference are 
Italian and English.*

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*Organized by: *Marco Dalla Gassa (University Ca’ Foscari, Venezia), 
Federico Zecca, Angela Bianca Saponari (University of Bari “Aldo Moro”), 
Andrea Gelardi (University of St Andrews).

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