[MGSA-L] CFP: Greek Screen Industries

[Papadimitriou, Lydia]

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR JOURNAL OF GREEK MEDIA AND CULTURE (6.2, Fall 2020)

Greek screen industries : Perspectives, Methodologies and Practices

Digital technologies are rapidly transforming the modes of production, distribution and consumption of screen media worldwide. This special issue will focus on the impact of such developments on Greek screen industries, especially cinema, television and video-on-demand.  We are seeking abstracts for articles that will examine any aspect of these screen industries, from a national, transnational and/or diasporic perspective. We welcome innovative methodologies, and explorations of distinctive industrial practices that situate local practices in a global context.

Particular areas of interest may include but not limited to the following:


-       modes of production and distribution of media companies

-       funding environment and the screen industries/inwards and outwards investment in the screen industries sector (eg. cash rebates)

-       collaboration in the screen industries/collaborative screen industries/co-productions

-       digital strategies

-       media convergence in Greek screen industries

-       transmedia storytelling

-       franchised entertainment

-       screen industries ownership/concentration and stakeholders

-       promotional screen industries

-       Video on Demand/streaming platforms

-       Netflix in Greece

-       terrestrial television licencing/audiovisual policies

-       diasporic screen industries and links with Greece

-       content imports and exports


Please send a title, 300 word abstract and a short bio to Dr Lydia Papadimitriou (editorJGMC at gmail.com<mailto:editorJGMC at gmail.com>), Dr Yannis Tzioumakis (y.tzioumakis at liverpool.ac.uk<mailto:y.tzioumakis at liverpool.ac.uk>) and Georgia Aitaki (g.aitaki at gmail.com<mailto:g.aitaki at gmail.com>) by 30 June 2019. The final articles should be 6,000-8,000  words, and submitted to the editors by 31 December 2019.






Dr Lydia Papadimitriou
Reader (Associate Professor) in Film Studies
Liverpool John Moores University
Redmonds Building
Brownlow Hill
Liverpool
L3 5UG
Tel. 0151 2314857

Principal Editor: Journal of Greek Media and Culture
New website: http://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-greek-media-culture <http://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-greek-media-culture>


Recent publications:
'Film Distribution in Greece: Formal and Informal Networks of Circulation since the Financial Crisis<https://academic.oup.com/screen/article/59/4/484/5253341>' in Screen 59:4, Dec. 2018


'European Co-Productions and Greek Cinema since the Crisis: Extroversion as Survival' in European Film and Television Co-Production: Policy and Practice<https://www.palgrave.com/br/book/9783319971568>, ed. J. Hammett-Jamart, P. Mitric and E. Novrup-Redvall (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)


Academia Profile<http://ljmu.academia.edu/LydiaPapadimitriou>

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