Contemporary Screen Narratives: Storytelling's Digital and Industrial
Contexts
Conference to be held on 17 May 2012
Hosted by the Department of Culture, Film and Media, University of
Nottingham
Keynote speakers: Henry Jenkins and Jason Mittell
This one-day conference looks to trace connections between the
narratives of contemporary screen media and their contexts of
production, distribution and consumption. We refer here to narrative as
the presentation and organisation of story via the semiotic phenomena of
image, sound and written/spoken word. We anticipate that speakers will
explore ways in which stories and their on-screen telling are informed
by contemporary industrial and technological conditions. We invite
contributions from postgraduate and early-career researchers working
across screen-based narrative media, such as film, television, comics,
literature, video games and other areas of new media. We are interested
to receive all paper proposals pertinent to the conference topic, though
we particularly welcome those that engage with the following themes and
questions:
Industrial determinants. In what ways are stories and their telling
contingent on the production cultures, distribution methods, revenue
models and governmental policies that configure a given creative industry?
Digital Technologies. How has the construction and/or reception of
narratives been influenced by digital production equipment, distribution
tech, online platforms and consumer hardware devices?
Seriality and Transmedia: In what ways do serial narrative forms,
whether disseminated within a given medium or across multiple media,
reflect industrial and technological contexts?
Audio and Visual Styles: How are the sounds and visions of contemporary
screen narratives informed by conditions of production and reception
technologies?
Paratextual Surround: In what ways do promotional materials,
practitioner discourses, fan cultures and critical/journalistic
responses discursively frame screen narratives?
Send abstracts of 250 words to Anthony Smith ([log in to unmask])
and Aaron Calbreath-Frasieur ([log in to unmask]). Papers should
not exceed twenty minutes in length. The deadline for proposal
submission is Monday 13 February 2012.
For updates, see: http://contemporaryscreennarratives.tumblr.com/
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Lecturer in Screenwriting
School of Creative Studies and Media
Bangor University
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United Kingdom
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Prifysgol Bangor
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