CFP: Anthropology and Media Studies 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference Chicago, IL March 8-11, 2007 Session Proposal Abstract: This session pursues the theme of transdisciplinary collaborations by focusing on the places where media anthropology and media studies critically intersect. The important role of global media in the formulation of individual and group identity has forced both media studies scholars and anthropologists of media to converge on locations of production. In the 'golden age' of cinema and 'classical' anthropology there existed but an anecdotal similarity between the film director working 'on-location' and the ethnographer being 'in the field.' Today, the site of television and anthropological production has in some instances become identical. In addition to cultures of production, anthropologists of media and media scholars are also interested in cultures of consumption. Presenters include anthropologists working on the locations of film and television production, cinema scholars studying cultures of production, and interdisciplinary researchers exploring media reception and indigenous media. In order to remain focused on how visual culture co-constitutes collective identities in an accelerating process of media production and reception, cinema, television, and anthropological scholars might do well to attend to the field sites from where media originate. This session is positioned to mutually engage two critical cultural scholarships, media studies and cultural anthropology, on the crisis of location. Examples might include: -ethnographies/geographies of television production -ethnographies/geographies of independent film producers -fieldwork-based research into cultures of media consumption -appropriation of anthropological theories into cinema/TV studies -social geography and the production of taste -media consumption and class, gender, ethnicity -indigenous media -media and transprovincialism -mediascapes and global migration -local vs. global television/film Please send your abstracts to Adam Fish [log in to unmask] by August 25, 2006. For more on SCMS 2007, see http://www.cmstudies.org. ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org