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Comparative Approaches to Movie-going, Exhibition and Reception

HoMER@NECS 2014, 19-21 June 2014, Milan, Italy.

Call for HoMER papers and panels at the NECS 2014 International ConferenceSubmission Deadline: 10

thJanuary, 2014

Please email all inquiries to Pierluigi Ercole, Email:percole@brookes.ac.uk

Following last year successful HoMER@NECS conference in Prague, The History of Movie-going

Exhibition and Reception (HoMER)group is organizing a series of panels within the NECS 2014

International Conference in Milan, Italy. HoMER gathers international scholars who research

the complex phenomenon of the social and cultural experience cinema-going, film exhibition

and reception from a multidisciplinary perspective.

After a productive review of the current state of research within this expanding field the time isright for developing comparative approaches to the numerous micro-historical national studies.

The analysis of patterns and networks in film culture also calls for special attention to

methodology. We aim to bring European perspectives on cinema-going and film exhibition into

dialogue with US, Australian, African, South American and Asian research.

We support the submission of individual papers or pre-constituted panel proposals from

HoMER members and interested non-members, as weseek to bring together scholars dealing

with these subjects from all over the globe.

Possible topics:

The attention given to top down forces of industry, commerce and ideology as against

bottom up forces of experience, consumption and escapism.

Contesting concepts of public and private space in media experience.

Questions relating to cinemas integration into to the metropolitan experience of

modernity, compared to its role in the construction of community in less urbanized and

rural areas.

Film exhibition, cinema-going and film experience in relation to theories of imperialism,

post-colonialism, etc.

Long term tendencies such as the rise of cinemas in rural and urban environments, the

boom of cinema-going, the decay and subsequent closure of many (provincial andneighborhood) cinemas and the rise of multiplexes.

Tensions between commercial and/or ideological film exhibition, between urban and

rural areas, and between provinces and regions.

Institutional developments, geographical location and programming trends.

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Audience and film experiences in urban and rural contexts.

A comparative international perspective on cinema-going and exhibition.

Diasporic cinema-going practices.

Representations in films of cinema-going, film exhibition, film culture(s).

Reflections on methods: How to reconcile/combine large scale analysis with in depth

case study? How to link up national or regional databases on exhibition and cinema-going?

We explicitly invite non-HoMER scholars who are working on the mentioned topics and want to

share their research with international colleagues. A selection of papers presented at the

conference will be published in an edited volume in 2015 (publisher to be confirmed)

HoMER@NECS 2014 will also be preceded by a one day HoMER workshop (practical

information on the workshop will follow).

Practical information

You can submit an individual paper proposal or a pre-constituted panel proposal. Panels may

consist of 3 to 4 speakers with a maximum of 20 minutes speaking time each. All presenters are

obliged to provide a title, an abstract of maximum 150 words, 3 to 5 key bibliographical

references, name of the presenter and institutional affiliation, plus a short panel rational (150

words max.) in case o pre-constituted panels.

Please submit all individual HoMER paper or HoMER panel proposals before 10th

January

2014 to Pierluigi Ercole (percole@brookes.ac.uk). You will be notified of acceptance shortly

thereafter. Please note that HoMER papers and panels should not be submitted via the NECS

online submission system, but via e-mail to Pierluigi Ercole, as they will be reviewed

separately by the HoMER 2014 programming team.

The HoMER programming team:Daniel Biltereyst

Pierluigi ErcoleMariagrazia Fanchi

Phillippe Meers

Clara Pafoort-Overduin

John SedgwickJudith Thissen

Daniela Treveri-Gennari

Lies Van de Vijver