CFP: Jackpot! Reception and Viewer Agency in the Digital Age (6/1/14; 10/29-11/1/14)

From: Cynthia Miller <[email protected]>

CALL FOR PAPERS
CFP: Jackpot! Reception and Viewer Agency in the Digital Age
An area of multiple panels for the 2014 Film & History Conference:
Golden Ages: Styles and Personalities, Genres and Histories
October 29-November 2, 2014
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor=92s Club
Madison, WI (USA)
DEADLINE for abstracts:  June 1, 2014

AREA: Jackpot! Reception and Viewer Agency in the Digital Age

The middle 20th century saw a vast rise in academic institutions =
offering more and more cinema courses, majors, and concentrations, =
leading to a more critical viewership of the medium.  In our 21st =
century, widely known as the internet and participatory age, viewers =
have various outlets and tools, such as websites, blogs, and video =
casts, to voice their critical accolades and contestations of films, the =
historical genre included.  Such platforms offer viewers a space for =
participation and agency while also, inadvertently, offering the scholar =
new tools and arenas for reception studies. How have the roles and =
responsibilities of viewers and scholars evolved in response?  How do we =
begin to map and analyze the terrain of reception in the new millennium?=20=


This call for papers addresses questions that investigate the =
intersection between online participatory culture and the scholarly =
resource these arenas provide. =20

=95	Have we reached a new Golden Age of viewer participation and, =
more importantly, viewer agency? =20
=95	To what extent do viewers have the ability to affect a film=92s =
production, marketing, or bottom line?  =20
=95	Have scholars hit the jackpot with the multitude of data these =
digital critiques provide?=20
=95	To what extent do Amazon.com reviews, Rotten Tomato rants, and =
YouTube parodies aid scholarly investigation of the reception of =
specific films?=20

While papers covering all types of viewer participation in this Golden =
Age are encouraged, papers focusing on historical films are particularly =
welcomed.    =20

Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also =
welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, =
including an e-mail address, for each presenter. For updates and =
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & =
History website (www.filmandhistory.org).

Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by 1 June 2014, to the area chair:
Vincent Bisson
Bunker Hill Community College
[email protected]

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