Dear MECCSA Colleagues:
We are pleased to announce that the Draft Conference Schedule is now available for 'FILM & MEDIA 2016: The Fifth Annual London Film & Media Conference'. The 2016 conference will be held on 7-9 July 2016 at the Friends House Conference Centre in Bloomsbury, London, UK (directly opposite Euston Station).
With nearly a month to go, and with 130 Speakers and Delegates from more than 30 countries already registered, the event is nearly full and just a few Delegate places now remain available. (Kindly note that the event is open exclusively to pre-registered Speaker and Delegates.)
The central focus for FILM & MEDIA 2016 is ‘Questions of Cultural Value’. Led by Keynote Speakers Prof. Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia, UK), and Prof. Graham Murdock (Loughborough University, UK), the event seeks to celebrate, analyse and critique the worlds of Film, TV, Digital Communications and Popular Media. This convivial research forum for emerging and established scholars worldwide features a wide range of Panels, covering such topics as
Altered States: Cinema and the Videogame / Bollywood Identities / Changing Images of Masculinity / Cinema and the Written Word /
The Cinematic Fairytale / Crime Fictions / Female Heroism and Villainy / Femininities Re-viewed / Figuring the Family /
Film Stardom in Britain and America / Global Cultures and Economies / Hollywood Visions / The Indiewood Generation /
Intercultural Cinema: The Mummy / The Highs and Lows of Postmodernity / Imagining the Human / Media Ontologies / Media and Social Action /
Mediating Mental and Physical Disability / Music and the Media / Narratives of Gender / Negotiating the Real / New Audience Identities /
Participatory Media / The Pleasures of the Image, and Its Discontents / The Politics of Cultural Identity / Questions of Authorship /
Race and Identity in America and Brazil / The Semiotics of the Visual Image / Signs and Meaning in American Cinema /
Transnational Film and Television / TV Ideologies in Britain, India, and Finland / three Panels considering African Film and Media
in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal.
For further information, online registration, and your copy of the Draft Conference Schedule, please visit our website at www.thelondonfilmandmediaconference.com, where you will also find our free ebook series (donation invited), 'The London Film & Media Reader', currently in its third bumper edition.
With all best wishes,
Sincerely,
The Conference Team,
FILM & MEDIA 2016: Questions of Cultural Value,
The Fifth Annual London Film & Media Conference.
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