From films like Ida, The Kings Speech, Taken, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Intouchables and The Great Beauty, to television dramas like The Killing, The Returned, Generation War, Salamander and Downton Abbey, there seems to be a new vitality to the European audiovisual industries. In the new digital world, it is now easier than ever to encounter other Europeans on screen. At the same time, US movies and television dramas still dominate European screens, while only a minority of European productions successfully travel to other European territories, raising questions about the strength of Europe’s audiovisual sector and its role in promoting European diversity.
The European Screens 2016 conference will reflect on these trends.
Organised by ‘Mediating Cultural Encounters through European Screens’
(MeCETES), this three-day event brings together academics, policymakers and industry professionals, and will provide a forum for researchers to discuss their latest research on contemporary European film and television drama, as well as attend industry debates and keynote lectures. The MeCETES team – led by Andrew Higson (York), Ib Bondebjerg (Copenhagen) and Caroline Pauwels (Brussels) – will also be sharing the
findings of their landmark pan-European research project.
Proposals for individual papers or panels:
We welcome proposals for individual papers (up to 20 mins in length) and panels (of 3 papers) on any aspect of contemporary European film and television, particularly the following:
• European identities and cross-cultural encounters
• Aesthetics, genres and representation
• Audiences and reception
• Digitisation, media convergence and technological change
• Distribution, sales and marketing
• Festivals, exhibition spaces and online platforms
• Languages, subtitling and dubbing
• Media policy and regulation
• Minorities, migrant and diasporic media
• National and transnational cinemas
• Production, co-production and business strategies
• Public service broadcasting
• Remakes, reboots and adaptations
• Research data and methodologies
The deadline for proposals is December 11, 2015. Please visit the conference website for more information:
www.mecetes.co.uk/european-screens/
<http://www.mecetes.co.uk/european-screens/>
Perspectives on European film, television and the audiovisual industries
University of York, UK
September 5-7, 2016