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REMINDER Call for Papers - *Film Studies* no. 14: special issue on “Institutions and Agency” Under the auspices of the new film history, media industry studies, the new political economy of communication and others, film and media scholars have increasingly attended to institutions. This trend agitates against the long disciplinary tradition by which media have been appreciated as the expressions of subjective visions and artistic designs. To be sure, the new institutional approaches are not without their critics, who have maligned them as inflexible, reductive and ignorant of extra-economic motivations, cultural inflections and individual decisions. How can film and media scholarship effectively seek both macro *and* micro explanations and attend to both larger networks *and* human agency? This special issue of *Film Studies* (Manchester University Press), due for publication in 2016, seeks to answer this question by collecting a diverse series of case studies that illustrate such comprehensive approaches. These 6000-8000-word articles *may pertain to any area of film and media studies*, but should grapple with their objects of inquiry by taking account of both institutions and individual agency. Possible topics might include (but are not limited to) case studies that reveal: --the place of (a) film (or a genre or production trend) in relation to government bodies (e.g., the EU; the State Department; local municipalities) --how individual directors, cinematographers, screenwriters or other film workers negotiated with companies, unions, regulation bodies, government authorities or other large organisations --how media control, convergence or conglomeration has been inflected by individuals’ decision-making --the role of individuals in censorship and classification decisions --how arts journalists or film critics fit into larger media organisations and associations --how individual cinemas, film festivals, distribution companies or other film-cultural groups deal with larger networks; how these larger networks codetermine the individuals’ everyday practices --audience or fan studies that attend to both institutional pressures (or incentives) and individual desires and tastes Abstracts (of less than 200 words) and a short biographical note should be sent by 1 November 2014 to Mattias Frey at [log in to unmask] Complete manuscripts should be ready for peer review by the summer of 2015. Publication is due for summer 2016. Dr Mattias Frey Senior Lecturer in Film Studies Co-Editor, *Film Studies* Co-Director, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Film and the Moving Image University of Kent Jarman School of Arts, 2-26 Canterbury CT2 7UG UK http://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/staff-profiles/profiles/film/frey.html Postwall German Cinema: History, Film History, and Cinephilia http://www.amazon.com/Postwall-German-Cinema-History-Cinephilia/dp/0857459473 Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice, and Spectatorship http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cine-Ethics-Dimensions-Practice-Spectatorship-Routledge/dp/0415821258 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------