Individual and Panel Proposals are invited for the April 2016 BAFTSS conference at the University of Reading. At a time when distinctions between national boundaries and between media platforms are increasingly fluid, we wish to interrogate the many ‘in-betweens’ that this fluidity gives rise to. We also want to embrace the very concept of how not only form but identity is in a state of flux and transports us from one position to another. Keynote speakers (*John Akomfrah, director of /The Stuart Hall Project,/ will be accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2016*) embrace and question these spaces and networks and, as more academic works from a new generation of screen analysts who identify with neither old nor new media come to the forefront, being trans- seems to encapsulate post-postmodernity. Examples of topics can be found below, but papers are invited examining all screen forms and subjects beyond the thematic list below.
·Transmedia
·Adaptation
·Transnational stars
·International television and the impact of the contemporary epic
·Questioning national identities
·European identities
·Policy, Regulation and Funding
·Transnational genres on all screen platforms
·Trans… identities
·Transnational versus international
·Historical transnationality (e.g. early cinema, émigré directors and performers, industry collaborations)
*To submit a proposal, email Anna Claydon ateac14@le.ac.uk
<mailto:eac14@le.ac.uk>for a proposal form*. The deadline for proposals in October 14th 2015. Proposals will be reviewed and decisions communicated during December.
We aim to keep the conference fee as low as we can and there will be a substantial discount for PGR, non-salaried and retired conference attendees but the conference fee (which will not include accommodation or the conference dinner) will not be announced until we have a rough idea of numbers based on paper submissions and can set the price accordingly.
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