Call for papers at the 15th EASA Congress, August 14-17, 2018, Stockholm.
Deadline for abstract's submission: 9 April, 2018.
*https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6575
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NEGOTIATING IMAGINARIES: EXPLORATIONS OF VERNACULAR AUDIOVISUAL PRODUCTION
Convenors
Alex Vailati (Federal University of Pernambuco)
Carmen Rial (Federal University of Santa Catarina)
Short abstract
This panel will discuss ethnographic possibilities for approaching the
relevant fields of "vernacular" audiovisual practices and archives.
Focusing on field-based research we will explore how these videos are
produced from an economic, political and aesthetic perspective.
Long abstract
The aim of this panel is to discuss the ethnographic possibilities for
approaching the relevant fields of "vernacular" audiovisual practices and
archives. Beginning with family cinema, the panel will explore different
fields such as videos commissioned by ethnic organizations, institutions or
political networks and other amateur videos.
Production companies today specialize in recording specific moments of
social life. The example of the so-called family cinema phenomenon is
probably one of the most relevant, in which videos turn family events into
memories. These films often use highly sophisticated cinema languages and
continuous aesthetic experimentation coupled with ingenious distribution
strategies, often through social networks. These videos result from
interesting processes of negotiation and interaction between clients and
video makers. If, in many cases, these audiovisuals incorporated
ethnographic approaches, contemporary ethnography reveals how those sources
can be gateways to fields that had been difficult to enter.
We will address the influence of field-based research on how "on-demand
videos" are produced from an economic, political and aesthetic perspective.
In addition to the professional recording of social life, amateur videos
have proliferated in social networks, revealing intimate spaces, which has
allowed visual access that in the past required long negotiations between
ethnographers and informants.
The analyses of these videos and their topos can be a key strategy for
understanding how imaginaries are "locally produced" and how they relate to
both local realities and global narratives. This analysis can also indicate
how ethnography can utilize these new data sources.
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