Screen moderator: Please fwd this version. Incorrect date on previous message. Dear Colleagues, > > > On 16 September, SCMS' Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest > Group will be hosting a virtual forum (details below; pdf attached). We're > especially keen to have attendees from outside our subfield. Please share > widely. > > > For further information, contact Tanya Goldman ([log in to unmask]) > and Madison Brown ([log in to unmask]). > > > > > *What's In A Name?* > > *A Forum on the Past, Present, and Potential Futures of Nontheatrical > Media Studies* > > *Friday, September 16 — 9:00am PDT / 12:00pm EDT / 16:00 UDT* > > > > *https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-in-a-name-tickets-387747421977 > <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-in-a-name-tickets-387747421977>* > > > > The English-language term ‘nontheatrical’ has long been used to connote > modes of ‘difference’ — in form, function, and exhibition contexts —from > dominant commercial media cultures. Recent scholarship has drawn attention > to a capacious body of historically neglected works in many understudied > genres (such as educational film, industrials, and science films etc.) and > developed a variety of interdisciplinary interpretative frameworks to make > sense of their meaning. As this burgeoning subfield continues to grow, the > ‘nontheatrical’ label has become inadequate to represent the global > community of scholars and archivists working in the field. > > > > With an eye towards renaming the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ > “Nontheatrical Film and Media” Scholarly Interest Group, this forum invites > participants across disciplines to assess the explanatory value and — just > as importantly — the limitations of the SIG’s current name. What more > nuanced and inclusive terms might better represent the complexity of > objects, approaches, and politics that animate the study of nontheatrical > media? How would renaming the SIG allow us to move beyond the fields’ > linguistic bias towards English-language scholarship? Might renaming the > SIG invite scholars of digital media to consider the value of nontheatrical > and useful media as explanatory frameworks? > > > Contact event hosts Madison Brown ([log in to unmask]) > & Tanya Goldman ([log in to unmask]) for further information. > ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]