ECREA Film Studies Conference

The ECREA Film Studies Section organizes the international conference "The Glow in Their Eyes. Global perspectives on film cultures, film exhibition and cinemagoing" in Brussels, 15-16 December 2007. Confirmed keynote speakers are Annette Kuhn (University of London) and Richard Maltby (Flinders University).

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The aim of the conference is to review the current state of research in the history of moviegoing and film exhibition and distribution. We seek to bring together scholars dealing with these subjects from all over the globe. The growing number of case studies in local film history increases the need for comparative studies of cities, regions, and nations, while the relationship between micro and macro history(ies) is becoming a major issue for the field. The analysis of patterns and networks in film culture also calls for special attention to methodology.

The conference aims to bring European perspectives on cinemagoing and film exhibition into dialogue with British, American and Australian research, and with research elsewhere in the world, in Africa, South America and Asia.

Please submit abstracts (500 words) with short bio to Gert Willems and Liesbeth van de Vijver before 6 July 2007. Speakers will be notified of acceptance by 31 July 2007.

Read more at the ECREA Conference site; "The Glow in Their Eyes"

Photo: Men waiting in front of a film theatre in Hyderabad, India, 1985. Copyright: Carl de Keyzer.