Dear friends of small cinemas conference,
The 11th SCC will be held in Cluj Napoca at the Babes Bolay University, a 60 000 student campus and the biggest in Romania.
Please share this CFP with your list of former participants and post the CFP below on all known sites, your university boards, personal websites/facebook, etc.
We hope to bring the SC community together at another great conference!
Many thanks and have a wonderful, successful year ahead!
CALL FOR PAPERS
11th
International Conference
Political
Imaginaries of Small Cinemas and Cultures
Babeș-Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
September
11-12, 2020
In a world of mainly undisputed capitalism, growing
populism, increased global mobility, migration catastrophes, and minority
activism, new forms of political experience and imaginaries are emerging. For
this reason, film and cultural studies need to reconsider the range and impact
of the political and social forces that drive, within global frameworks, the
construction and circulation of cultural products. Charles Taylor describes the
social imaginary as a way to convey both the subjective realm of social
existence and the collective strata of common practices and of perpetually
evolving political institutions. The notion of the imaginary has emerged across
diverse fields in the humanities and social sciences, as well as in other
disciplines. However, film studies have not convincingly addressed the way in
which small cinemas have attempted in the last decades to translate cultural, economic,
social complexities on screen. The question is how images of the social,
political, ideological were reshaped in the (post)neoliberal age and what effects
they have on the cultural production of small nations.
For this reason, the conference welcomes
papers which investigate political imaginaries in small cinemas and cultures,
including – but not limited to – the following areas:
● Perceptions and genealogies of democracy
● Representations of global capitalism and local
crises
● Re-enactments of nationalism
● Left and right populisms
● Identity reconfiguration across gender and
race
● The devaluation of labour and post-socialist economic
hierarchies
● Perspectives
on precarity, poverty, and social inequalities
● Eco-activism,
and challenging big capital-driven climate change
● Political subjectivities in globalized
capitalism
● Political ideologies of aesthetic forms
● Colonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, and self-colonial
imaginaries
● Neoliberal structures in film and cultural markets
● Small culture imaginaries and big markets
Please send your proposal – title, abstract (up to 300
words) and short bio – to smallcinemas.bbu@gmail.com by the deadline of May 15, 2020.
Confirmation of acceptance will be issued by June 10, 2020. For other
inquiries please contact Professor Claudiu Turcuș: claudiu.turcus@ubbcluj.ro
Conference fees, online payment – Faculty: 50 €; PhD or Independent Scholars: 30 €.
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