The registration desk opens at 9.00hrs and will remain open until 17.00hrs for anyone arriving during the day
ROOM: Bush House Arcade
Free tea, coffee, water, and pastries served in the Bush House Arcade area.
EMPLACEMENT AND EMPLOTMENT: MEDIA PRODUCTION IN PANDEMIC TIMES
SPEAKER: Vicki Mayer (Tulane University)
ROOM: Bush House Auditorium
CHAIR: Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England)
A1 PANEL: STREAMERS AND RECONFIGURING PRODUCTION NETWORKS AND ECOSYSTEMS
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Petr Szczepanik (Univerzita Karlova)
Gary R. Edgerton (Butler University) Netflix, Spanish Television, and ‘La casa de papel’: Growing Global and Local TV Together in the Multiplatform Era
Ivana Kostovska (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Streamers as Ecosystem Disruptors: Power Shifts in Financing Audiovisual Content in Denmark and Flanders
A2 PANEL: THE BERLIN-POTSDAM MEDIA INDUSTRY HUB AS SEEN FROM DIFFERENT VANTAGE
POINTS
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Skadi Loist (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
Susanne Eichner (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) Berlin in Television Series
Skadi Loist and Martha E. Ehrich (both Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) Berlin’s Film Festival Kiez Culture
Anna Luise Kiss (Hochschule für Schauspielkunst ERNST BUSCH) The Cinematic Streetscape in Potsdam: Palimpsest – Cultural Arena – Performative Space
A3 PANEL: FILM FESTIVALS AS INCLUSIVE AND NETWORKING SPACES
ROOM: SE 1.01
CHAIR: Paul McDonald (King’s College London)
Sarah Sinwell (University of Utah) Unstoppable: Slamdance and the Future of Disability on (and Off) Screen
Roy Hanney (Solent University) Repositioning the Film Festival as Locus of Practice: Not a Community of Practice, But a
Network of Practice!
A4 PANEL: GLOBALIZED PRODUCTION, NATIONAL CONTEXTS
ROOM: SE 1.05
CHAIR: Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool John Moores University)
Marco Cucco (Università di Bologna) and Massimo Scaglioni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) Relocating Indian Audiovisual Production in Italy: Trends, Practices, and Policies
André Rui Graça (Universidade Lusófona) Media Industries in Small European Countries: Extending Networks and
Reinforcing Competitiveness
B1 PANEL: NEWS MEDIA AND LOCALITY
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Paul McDonald (King’s College London)
Brian Alexander Brown (University of Windsor) The Many Lives of the Detroit News Building: From ‘the World’s Greatest Newspaper Factory’ to the World’s ‘First Commercial Radio Station’ to State-of-the-Art Data Centre in Just Over a Century
Harald Rau and Per Ole Uphaus (both Ostfalia Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften) Innovations in Local Communication: Research on LBS and its Implications for News Media
B2 PANEL: URBAN AND REGIONAL NETWORKS FOR INDEPENDENT FILM PRODUCTION
ROOM: S 2.03
CHAIR: Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool)
Ruby Cheung (University of Southampton) Hong Kong’s 2010s Indie Filmmaking: Collective Survival
Nathan Townsend (University of York) iFeatures: The Rise and Fall of a Low-Budget Regional Filmmaking Lab
Jasmine Trice (University of California, Los Angeles) Remaking the City: Experimental Film Production in Jakarta
B3 PANEL: STREAMING ‘INDIA’: INFRASTRUCTURES, NATIONALISMS, AND EROTICS
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Ishita Tiwary (Concordia University)
Ishita Tiwary (Concordia University) Streaming Platforms and the Indian Context: Infrastructural and Industrial Specifics
Anubha Sarkar (City, University of London) The Paatal Lok of India’s OTT Platforms: Governance, Self-Censorship and
Nationalism
Sneha Kumar (Concordia University) Searching for the ‘ALT’ in ALTBalaji: An Analysis of the Platform’s Streaming Imaginaries and Conjugal Configurations
B4 PANEL: CITIES IN THE FORMATION OF MEDIA ECOSYSTEMS
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England)
Harmanpreet Kaur (Tata Institute of Social Sciences) To Mumbai and Back: An Ecosystem for Alternative Indian Cinemas?
Orson Nava (Ravesnsbourne University) Grime Ecologies: Hyper Local Creative Networks and Audio Visual ‘Counter
Mapping’ in East London
Jaana Serres (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) ‘Lagos to the World’: The Nigerian Music Industry’s Project of Africa-based
Modernity and Globalization
B5 PANEL: RURAL AND VIRTUAL SPACE IN MEDIA PRODUCTION
ROOM: S 1.05
CHAIR: Philip Drake (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Linda Ryan Bengtsson (Karlstads Universitet) Locality as Constructive Resistance to the Urban Norm: Struggles of the Rural
Popular Culture Scene
Lawrence Webb (University of Sussex) Locating the Volume: The Infrastructure and Geography of Virtual Production
Nina Willment and Jon Swords (both University of York) Examining the Value Chains of Virtual Production: Mapping the Relationship Between this New Media Industry and Locality
C1 ROUNDTABLE: NETWORKED TEXAS? A CASE STUDY OF THE MEDIA INDUSTRIES AT THE SUBNATIONAL LEVEL
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Courtney Brannon Donoghue (University of North Texas)
Courtney Brannon Donoghue (University of North Texas)
Kimberly Owczarski (Texas Christian University)
Jennifer Porst (University of North Texas)
C2 PANEL: DESIGNING MEDIA SPACES
ROOM: S 2.03
CHAIR: Charlotte Crofts (University of the West of England)
Myles McNutt (Old Dominion University) Avengers A-Stumble: The Transmedia Trials and Tribulations of Marvel Spaces in the Disney Parks
Riana Slyter (Colorado State University) The Halloween Authority: Haunted Attraction Industry and Culture
C3 PANEL: HUBS FOR MEDIA WORK AND FINANCE
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England)
Katherine Champion (University of Stirling) and David Lee (University of Leeds) Grand Designs? Investigating the Cultural
and Spatial Logics of Channel 4’s Media Hub Workspaces in Leeds, Bristol, and Glasgow
Yizhou Xu (University of Michigan) Placing Precarity: Spatial Organization of the Chinese High-Tech Workplace in Pandemic
Times
C4 PANEL: CREATIVE LABOUR AND LOCATION IN MEDIA PRODUCTION
ROOM: SE 1.01
CHAIR: Ruth Barton (Trinity College Dublin)
Christine Becker (University of Notre Dame) Beyond Our Control: A TV Show About Local TV’s Capabilities
Siao Yuong Fong (Lancaster University) Affective Precarity: Performing Transnational Media Work from the Margins of ‘Cultural China’
Sofia Sampaio (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa) The Location of Labour: Portuguese Cinema, VOD and Public Policies
ROOM: 8th Floor Roots Café and Roots Terrace
For anyone joining the conference on the second day, the registration desk will be temporarily open at the start of the day.
ROOM: Bush House Arcade
Free tea, coffee, water, and pastries served in the Bush House Arcade area
LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: LOCAL COLOUR, LOCATION STUDY AND LOCATION PLACEMENT
SPEAKER: Anne-Marit Waade (Aarhus Universitet)
ROOM: Bush House Auditorium
CHAIR: Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England)
D1 PANEL: WRITING THE LOCAL INTO GLOBAL VIDEO GAME HISTORIES
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Matthew Payne (University of Notre Dame)
Jennifer deWinter (Illinois Institute of Technology) Dreams in a Floating World: Locating this History of Nintendo in Kyoto’s Pleasure District Gojo Rakuen
Carly Kocurek (Illinois Institute of Technology) Coins, Cops, and Ballyhoo: Making Pinball in Chicago
James Newman (Bath Spa University) The Kong of King: Cornwall, Clones and the Reinterpretation of Arcade Games for the Dragon 32 Home Computer
Matthew Payne (University of Notre Dame) The Oregon Trail as a Public Good: Civic Investments, Computer Literacy, and
the Origins of Educational Entertainment in Minneapolis, Minnesota
D2 PANEL: UNDERSTANDING AND STRENGTHENING PLACE-BASED INNOVATION IN THE MEDIA
INDUSTRY: EVIDENCE FROM THE CARDIFF CAPITAL REGION
ROOM: S 2.03
CHAIR: Justin Lewis (Cardiff University)
Ruxandra Lupu (Cardiff University) Making (Sense of) Media Innovation: Understanding R&D Practices in the Innovation
Pipeline
Máté Fodor (Cardiff University) Innovation Agents Supporting the Media Sector in the City
Enrique Uribe Jongbloed (Cardiff University) Place-based Innovative Local Media Content: Opportunities for Interactive
Products
Marlen Komorowski and Justin Lewis (both Cardiff University) Understanding the Innovation Capabilities of Media
Organizations: Towards a New Framework for Managing Innovativeness
D3 PANEL: RECASTING SPACE AND PLACE: THE LOCAL LIVES OF INDIA’S GLOBAL MEDIA INDUSTRIES
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Tupur Chatterjee (University College Dublin)
TejaswiniGanti (New York University) Language, Place, and Political Economy: Multilingual Mumbai and the Making of its Media Industries
Tupur Chatterjee (University College Dublin) Streaming Platforms and Creative Media Work: A View from Bombay
Rahul Mukherjee (University of Pennsylvania) The Promise of Mist Computing for Local CDNs: Reaching Audiences Across Bandwidth Geographies and Regional Diversities
Darshana Shreedhar Mini (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Financial Speculation and OTT Infrastructures in India
D4 PANEL: MEDIA INDUSTRIES, INFRASTRUCTURES, AND GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS
ROOM: SE 1.01
CHAIR: Patrick Brodie (University College Dublin)
Patrick Brodie (University College Dublin) The Facilitation of Circulation: Logistical Approaches to Irish Media Industries
KayDickinson (University of Glasgow) Supply Chain Cinema Migrates to the Migrants: Logistics, Service and Precarity in the UAE’s Creative Economy Free Zones
Viviane Saglier (University of St. Andrews) Re-Routing Film: Gazan Cinema from Humanitarian Supply Chains to Tunnels
D5 PANEL: THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION OF FRENCH FILMS AND SERIES: THE ROLE OF SPACES AND PLACES IN STRUCTURING INDUSTRY NETWORKS
ROOM: SE 1.05
CHAIR: Simon Renoir (LabEx ICCA (Arts, Creative and Cultural Industries)
Sabine Bosler (Université de Haute-Alsace) The Circulation of French Audiovisual Creation in Germany: Places and Actors
Kira Kitsopanidou (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) Strategies of Parisian Exhibition Cinemas Confronted with the Platformization and Globalization of the Audiovisual Industry
Olivier Thévenin (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Simon Renoir (LabEx ICCA (Arts, Creative and Cultural Industries)) The Globalization of French Cinema and Audiovisual Industry as Measured by the Circulation of Cultural Products
E1 PANEL: CITIES AND SITES MEDIA PRODUCTION
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Christopher Meir (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Lothar Mikos (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF) Babylon Berlin and the Production Company X Filme Creative Pool: Berlin as Location and Production Site
Christopher Silver (Robert Gordon University) The Holy City in Ruins? Journalism, Place and Media Convergence in Postindustrial Glasgow
E2 PANEL: REGIONAL PRODUCTION AND MEDIA WORKERS
ROOM: S 2.03
CHAIR: Nathan Townsend (University of York)
Nelson Correia (Edinburgh Napier University) Streaming Scotland: Global Streaming Platforms and Freelance Employment Opportunities in the Scottish Screen Sector
Amy Genders (University of the West of England) A Tale of Two Cities: The Role of Place in Building and Sustaining Freelance Careers
Ellen Hughes (University of the West of England) Attachment to Place and Path Dependency in the Evolution of the Screen Industry in Yorkshire and the Humber
E3 PANEL: PLACING DIGITAL MEDIA INDUSTRIES
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England)
Joe F. Khalil (Northwestern University in Qatar) and Mohamed Zayani (Georgetown University in Qatar) Middle East Digital Media Industries and the Question of Territoriality
Paul McDonald (King’s College London) Spatial Disavowal and Avowal in TikTok’s Data Localizing Strategy
E4 PANEL: NEGOTIATING THE LOCAL: IMAGINING, CONSTRUCTING, AND CONTESTING LOCAL IDENTITIES AND PREFERENCES
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Laura Brown (University of Texas at Austin)
Laura Brown (University of Texas at Austin) Playing to the Home Crowd: Examining 1970s American Television Broadcasters’ Local Programming Strategies
Elizabeth (Betsy) Walters (Boston University) Netflix, the Festival de Cannes and the Biennale di Venezia
Laurel Rogers (University of Texas at Austin) ‘A Great Global Story’: Tensions Between the National and the Global in Netflix/CBC’s Anne with an E
Kathryn Hartzell (University of Texas at Austin) Producing the Local Audience: A Comparative Analysis of Indian Premier League Advertising in India and the UK
E5 PANEL: EVALUATING INITIATIVES FOR DEVELOPING URBAN AND REGIONAL MEDIA ECONOMIES
ROOM: S 1.05
CHAIR: Vicki Mayer (Tulane University)
David Morton (University of Central Florida) A Good Place to Visit, But Don’t Come to Stay’: Florida and the American Motion Picture Industry
Mark McKenna (Staffordshire University) Silicon Stoke: Levelling up the Screen Industries in North Staffordshire
James Hay (University of Illinois) The Green City, Media Museums, and the City Dump
F1 PANEL: CONNECTING TO PLACE IN THE FILM FESTIVAL NETWORK
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Skadi Loist (Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF)
Theresa Heath (Loughborough University London) Queer Film Festivals and Their Cities: A Balancing Act
Lu Zeng (Central Saint Martins, UAL) The Place and Placelessness of the London Film Festival
F2 PANEL: SPATIALISED HISTORIES OF MEDIA PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND MANAGEMENT
ROOM: S 2.03
CHAIR: Tejaswini Ganti (New York University)
Rutuja Deshmukh (Savitribai Phule Pune University) Kolhapur Film Enterprise: Locating Modernity of Princely State in
Colonial India
Pawel Sowinski (Polska Akademia Nauk) Cold War Warriors: Women of the Book Programme, 1956-1990
F3 PANEL: FORMATIONS OF MEDIA CITIES
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Paul McDonald (King’s College London)
Philip Drake (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England) Media Cities
and the Reconstruction of Space and Place
Yamini Krishna Chintamanni (FLAME University) Film City Urbanism in India
Julia Stolyar (SOAS, University of London) Digital Media City in Seoul: Building a Korean ‘Hollywood’
F4 PANEL: MEDIATIZING LOCATIONS IN SCREEN PRODUCTION
ROOM: SE 1.01
CHAIR: Anne-Marit Waade (Aarhus Universitet)
Liam Creighton (NYU London/University of Kent/Ravensbourne University) Mapping Spatial Inequality in Cinematic Representations of the United Kingdom
Jaap Verheul (University of Southampton) The Perennial Flâneur of Empire: Local Production Cultures and the Materiality of Urban Space in Spectre’s Mexico City
F5 PANEL: L LOCATIONAL LOGICS OF MEDIA STUDIOS
ROOM: SE 1.05
CHAIR: Courtney Brannon Donoghue (University of North Texas)
Richard Farmer (University of Bristol) Brighton’s Unbuilt Film Studios
Morgan Lefeuvre (Queen Mary, University of London) A Journey Through the Territories of Eastern Paris Studios in their Golden Age: The Case of Joinville and Saint-Maurice (1930-1960)
G1 PANEL: SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON AS BRANDED MEDIA CITY
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Melanie E. S. Kohnen (Lewis and Clark College)
Melanie E. S. Kohnen (Lewis and Clark College) Activating Fan Enthusiasm: Experiential Marketing at San Diego Comic-Con
Suzanne Scott (University of Texas at Austin) San Diego Comic-Con as Ephemeral Studio Backlot
G2 PANEL: INTERNATIONALISING GREEK SCREEN INDUSTRIES: GREECE, HOLLYWOOD AND THE STREAMERS
ROOM: S 2.03
CHAIR: Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool John Moores University)
Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool) ‘Establishing a Type of Hollywood in Greece’: Runaway Productions and the ‘Priming’ of Greece as a Hollywood Production Destination in the 1950s
Lydia Papadimitriou (Liverpool John Moores University) Filming (in) Greece: Locations, Financial Incentives, and the Search for Global Presence
Georgia Aitaki (Karlstads Universitet) On the Importance of Becoming a ‘Netflix Nation’: Extroversion, Exportability and (National) Pride Through a Case Study of Maestro in Blue (MEGA TV/Netflix, 2022- )
G3 PANEL: STREAMERS AND THE REORGANISATION OF CREATIVE SPACE AND AGENCY
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England)
Christopher Meir (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Netflix’s Poly-Centric Production Practices and the Re-Localisation of European Film Directors
Caitriona Noonan (Cardiff University) Between the Nation and Netflix: The Intermediating Role of Screen Agencies
Cristina Pujol Ozonas (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Locating the New Spaces of Media Creation in Spain: The Artist-inResidence Model of Script Development in Catalonia
G4 PANEL: LOCATIONAL EFFECTS OF MEDIA EVENTS
ROOM: SE 1.05
CHAIR: Paul McDonald (King’s College London)
Catherine Baker (University of Hull) ‘Ukraine’s Party, Just at our House’: Civic Authorities, Media Workers and the Formation of Location During Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool
Jessica Edlom and Jenny Karlsson (both Karlstads Universitet) Music Events as Social Spaces and Places
Brad Limov (University of Texas at Austin) ‘Weird Austin’: Local Event Imaginaries and Global Industry Networks in Austin, Texas, 2020-2023
For any delegates who need to bring a suitcase to the venue on the final day, it will be possible to drop your bag at the Registration Desk and have this placed in safe storage for collection later.
ROOM: Bush House Arcade
Free tea, coffee, water, and pastries served in the Bush House Arcade area.
H1 ROUNDTABLE: THE CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY OF CREATOR CULTURES
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: David Craig (USC Annenberg)
Catalina Goanta (Universiteit Utrecht)
Anirban Kapil Baishya (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Tuğçe Bidav (Maynooth University)
Soyun Ahn (USC Annenberg)
Nina Vindum Rasmussen (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Tinca Lukan (Univerza v Ljubljani)
José Miguel Tomasena (Universitat de Barcelona)
H2 PANEL: SPACES OF SPECIALISATION IN MEDIA WORK
ROOM: S 2.03
CHAIR: Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England)
Lauren Steimer (University of South Carolina) Training Spaces as Geographic Loci of Stuntcraft Knowledge
Kelly Wolf (University of South Carolina) Training ‘Animal Trainers’: Multispecies Collaboration and Locality in Media Industry Work
Ann Laudick (University of Texas at Austin) Closed Set: Shifting Constructions of Intimate Space in Media Production
H3 PANEL: ATLANTA, A MEDIA CAPITAL IN A BATTLEGROUND STATE
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Ethan Tussey (Georgia State University)
Kate Fortmueller (University of Georgia) Tentpoles and Mega Churches: How Georgia Soundstages Mediate Between the Global Media and Local Culture
Hemrani Vyas (Turner Classic Movies, Warner Bros. Discovery) Turf Wars at Techwood: How Corporate Mergers Re-shape Legacy Campuses and the Local Culture
Ethan Tussey (Georgia State University) Atlanta, the Media Capital Where ‘Representation Matters’
H4 PANEL: MEDIA CREATIONS OF LOCATIONAL IDENTITIES
ROOM: SE 1.01
CHAIR: Audun Engelstad (Høgskolen i Innlandet)
Ruth Barton (Trinity College Dublin) Bad Sisters and the Remaking of Dublin
Deborah Castro (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen/Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) and Ana C. Uribe Sandoval (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) ‘Postcarding Madrid’: Analyzing Local Residents’ Interpretations of the City in the Netflix’s Series Valeria
Andreu Fullana (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) and Concepción Cascajosa Virino (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) The Balearic Islands on the Screen: An Analysis of the Representation of Place in Fictional Productions
Free drink refreshments available in the Bush House Arcade area.
I1 PANEL: STREAMING SERVICES AND FORMATIONS OF SPACE
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Roderik Smits (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Nino Domazetovikj (imec-SMIT Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Global Streaming Services and Localisation: Investment Strategies for Maximising Value Capture
Audun Engelstad (Høgskolen i Innlandet) How Does Netflix Understand ‘Regional’ Production?
Michael Wayne (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Streaming ‘Local Authenticity’: Netflix Original Series and Discourses of Cultural Specificity
I2 PANEL: ATTRACTIONS OF MEDIA PLACES
ROOM: S 2.03
CHAIR: Paul McDonald (King’s College London)
Charlotte Crofts (University of the West of England) Locating Stardom: Cary Grant, Mobility and Place
Ying-Fen Chen (National Taipei University of Technology) Re-Branding Taipei through Film Policies, Tourist Maps of Movies,
and Cinematic Exhibitions
I3 ROUNDTABLE: MEDIA REGIONALIZATION IN EASTERN EUROPE
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Timothy Havens (University of Iowa)
Anikó Imre (University of Southern California)
Timothy Havens (University of Iowa)
Petar Mitric (Københavns Universitet)
Ivana Kostovska (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Petr Szczepanik (Univerzita Karlova)
Sylwia Szostak (SWPS Uniwersytet Humanistycznospołeczny)
I4 PANEL: L THE ENDURING PROBLEM OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PLACE AND LOCAL AND COMMUNITY MEDIA
ROOM: SE 1.01
CHAIR: Ellen Hughes (University of the West of England)
Lenka Waschková Císařova (Masarykova univerzita) Place as a Rusty Anchor, Digital Space as a Tattered Sail
Una Murphy (University of West of England) The Significance of Place to Community Media, and the Disruption of This Relationship by Digital Media
Josephine Coleman (Brunel University) The Place of Community Radio in a Nation’s Media Matrix (the UK’s Predicament)
Lunch Break
J1 PANEL: SPACES OF FILM DISTRIBUTION
ROOM: S 1.01
CHAIR: Paul McDonald (King’s College London)
Giorgio Avezzù (Università degli Studi di Bergamo) Not Quite a National Cinema: The Difference Between Regional Distribution and Consumption of Contemporary Italian Films
Dominic Holdaway (Università degli Studi di Urbino) Indian Cinema in the Italian Theatrical Market: Local Dynamics for a Global Industry
J2 PANEL: CINEMA EXHIBITION AND SPACES OF FILM CIRCULATION
ROOM: S 2.03
CHAIR: Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England
Valerio Coladonato (Sapienza Università di Roma) Locating and Exhibiting Co-Productions: Italian Auteur Cinema in Early 1960s Paris
Codruţa Morari (Wellesley College) Privatizing Public Culture: Streaming Services and the New French Film Industry Exhibition Policy
Roderik Smits (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Multiplexes and Cinema Exhibition: Releasing Films in Times of Disruption and Change
J3 PANEL: FILM FESTIVAL SPATIAL STRATEGIES
ROOM: S 4.04
CHAIR: Amy Genders (University of the West of England)
Anubha Sarkar (City, University of London) Indian and South Korean Films at Western Film Festivals: A Comparative Analysis of Indian and South Korean Government’s Film Promotional Strategies
Kirsten Stevens (University of Melbourne) and Diane Burgess (University of British Columbia) Rethinking the Localised Film Festival Experience: Hybrid Festivals in the Peri-COVID Era
J4 ROUNDTABLE: HOLLYWOOD ON THE MUDFLATS: FILM INDUSTRY IN THE NORTHERN NETHERLANDS
ROOM: SE 1.01
CHAIR: Lisette Derksen (Cinenord Foundation)
Lisette Derksen (Cinenord Foundation)
Joris Hoebe (Cinenord Foundation)
David Morton (University of Central Florida)
Petr Szczepanik (Univerzita Karlova)
Jaap Verheul (University of Southampton)
J5 ROUNDTABLE: GENERATING SCREEN CLUSTERS THROUGH EDUCATION-MEDIA INDUSTRY COLLABORATION-A CASE STUDY OF SHINFIELD STUDIO AND THE UNIVERSITY OF READING’S CINE VALLEY
ROOM: SE 1.05
CHAIR: Dominic Lees (University of Reading)
Dominic Lees s (University of Reading)
John Gibbs (University of Reading)
Lisa Purse (University of Reading)
Andrew Philip (University of Reading)
Shweta Ghosh (University of Reading)
Lilly Hudson (Resource Productions/Berkshire Film Office)
Short Break
THE VALUE OF SURPRISE: REFLECTIONS ON CONDUCTING ETHNOGRAPHY IN MEDIA
INDUSTRIES
SPEAKER: Tejaswini Ganti (New York University)
ROOM: Bush House Auditorium