27th - 28th March 2014
Filmhouse Cinema, Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Film Audience Conference (EIFAC) returns in 2014 with a new conference team but still upholding its predecessors’ focus on exciting audience research taking place within academic film studies and within the film industry. The two-day conference will shine the spotlight on film cultures and film audiences by showcasing an expanding pool of scholarship, which moves away from classical textual modes of research to include empirical fieldwork. The event will debate how different methodologies and perspectives can help further our understanding of the most important people in the world of film – the audience. There is a lot to be learned from other subject areas, therefore, this year sees the call for papers reach out to non-film disciplines by encouraging scholars in television and game studies to share their empirical research.
All papers should be concerned with empirical research on screen audiences. We are particularly interested in papers that explore the following issues/themes, however, we also welcome papers on other interesting topics no later than 5pm on Friday 29th November 2013:
- The challenges facing the empirical researcher
- Film festival audiences and communities
- Statistical literacy in empirical research
- Researching child and youth audiences
- Rethinking cinephilia, developing audience taxonomies
- Contemporary cinema audiences
- Film, fandom and merchandise
- Cult film and cult audiences
- Digital and online film cultures
- Transnational film audiences
- Film exhibition and the construction of audience
- Film policy and audiences
- Exhibition and/or consumption of short film
- Empirical research methods in television studies
- Empirical research methods in game studies
More information: http://www.filmaudiencesconference.co.uk/index.php/eifac-2014/call-for-papers
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