Apologies for any cross-posting. Best, DO Proposed Panel/Workshop Subject: Inter/Transnational Film Exhibition Organizer Name(s): Ross Melnick Deron Overpeck Mailing Address: Deron Overpeck Department of Communication and Journalism 232 Tichenor Auburn University Auburn, AL 36849 Office Phone Number: 310.951.4842 E-Mail Address: [log in to unmask] Summary: This panel seeks papers that examine the industrial, cultural, and/or aesthetic practices of film exhibition (and distribution) within a global context. Our goal is to present a wide range of papers that focus on exhibition practices within a specific nation or region and, whenever possible, to discuss how these issues and transactions may have crossed geographical borders (especially as multinational exhibition circuits have expanded over the past three decades). Papers may take a variety of methodological approaches and historical time periods and are not bound by the list of possible topics below. Possible topics may include: - Exhibition practices of cinemas and/or circuits situated within a global framework - Racial, gender, class, religious, political, and other divisions in international cinemas - Global exhibition histories of specific films, genres, directors, or national cinemas - Dubbing, subtitling, and other related issues of translation and acculturation - The expansion of multinational cinema circuits (Cinemark, UCI, Europalaces, etc.) - The international distribution of film to cinemas, televisions, museums, and alternative spaces as well as mobile devices and other hardware - The exhibition of local or global sports, concerts, opera, etc. in cinemas - Non-theatrical, alternative, home, or mobile exhibition venues - Profiles of individual exhibitors and their local/global influence on exhibition practices Please send a 250-300 word abstract along with a brief bio to Dr. Ross Melnick ([log in to unmask]) and Dr. Deron Overpeck ([log in to unmask]) by Friday, August 6, 2010. Notifications will be sent by August 15, 2010. Send individual topics & summaries to organizer(s) by: E-Mail Deron Overpeck, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Radio, Television and Film Program Department of Communication and Journalism Auburn University Director, Jay Sanders Film Festival ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu