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*Call for Papers*
*Production Studies: Film, Television, and their Industrial Contexts**Wednesday
15 June 2016*

*Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort
University*

*Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bridget Conor
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/cmci/people/academic/conor/index.aspx>,
Senior
Lecturer at King’s College London and co-editor of Production Studies, The
Sequel!: Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries (2015)*

The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort
University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its fifth
annual postgraduate conference.

In recent years, studies of production and the creative industries have
intervened in film, media and cultural studies to investigate the operation
of power within production communities and the impact of this on the
cultural texts produced. This growing body of research has considered,
amongst other themes: the lived experiences of production workers, the
working cultures in which they operated, the identity of the production
worker and its influence on their production decisions, the creative agency
of actors, the influence of wider economic and political forces, the impact
of new technologies, and the formal and informal hierarchies which have
shaped working practices in the film and television industries.

This conference aims to contribute to the existing scholarship on
Production Studies and the creative industries by inviting proposals which
explore film and television production, both historically and
contemporarily, and within any national context. Relevant topics include,
but are not limited to:

   - Lived experiences of production workers, both above and below the line
   (e.g. producers, writers, directors, lighting technicians, continuity
   supervisors, production assistants, laboratory technicians, camera
   operators, etc.)
   - Creative identity and agency of production workers and actors
   - Working cultures in film and television production (e.g. informal and
   formal hierarchies, collaborative working practices, etc.)
   - Organisation of production and the impact of changing industrial
   trends (e.g. influence of political and economic forces, new media, digital
   technologies, etc.)
   - Tensions between commercial and creative interests
   - Inequality in the film and television industries – gender, race,
   ethnicity, class, age, and disability
   - Labour relations in the film and television industries – the role of
   trade unions, guild organisations, etc.
   - Impact of the industrial context on the text produced

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations should include the title of the
presentation, a 250 word abstract, and a brief autobiographical statement.
Proposals should be submitted to [log in to unmask] by *Monday 4 April
2016*. Participants will receive a response by *late April*.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker:

*Dr Bridget Conor* is the author of *Screenwriting: Creative Labour and
Professional Practice* (2014), and co-editor of *Production Studies, The
Sequel!: Cultural Studies of Global Media Industries* (2015) and *Gender
and Creative Labour *(2015).

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*Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre Postgraduates*

Room 3.06J
School of Media and Communication
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH

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