APRIL 9-11, 2022 @ TULANE UNIVERSITY
The global COVID pandemic created havoc on public health systems, economic value chains and infrastructures, and the social fabrics of employment, family, and public life. In the film sector, industrial shifts towards streaming media, platformization, licensing digital properties, and big-tech driven contents became normalized as ‘home’ became a principal site for film production, distribution, and consumption. Meanwhile locational production, co-productions, and cinematic exhibition were disrupted, perhaps permanently. Film remains a unique sector to study as perhaps the only cultural or creative sector of national economies that was defined as ‘essential’ during lockdowns.
April 9
@ XYZ Lounge, Aloft Hotel
APRIL 10
@ KORACH CONFERENCE ROOM 208 IN THE LAVIN-BERNICK CENTER
9:00–10:30 am
Anne Soronen, Tampere University, Finland, "Experiences of injustice among Finnish creative workers during the pandemic" & Vicki Mayer and Chelsey Sprengler, Tulane University, USA, "Creative capitals in the New Orleans COVID lockdown"
11:00–12:30 pm
Michał Pabiś-Orzeszyna, University of Lodz, Poland, "Polish Filmmakers! It’s a Netflix Emergency!" & Judith Keilbach, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, "Taking a Cue from the COVID Lobby: Towards a Greener Film Politics"
LUNCH
NATIONAL CINEMAS AND PRODUCTION
2:00–3:30 pm
Darshana Sreedhar Mini, University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA, "Pandemic Media and the Entertainment Sector in India" & Tejaswini Ganti, New York University, USA, "Pitfalls and Possibilities: The Impact of Covid-19 on Media Production and Production Imaginaries in Mumbai"
4:00–5:30 pm
Noa Lavie, Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yafo, Israel, "Yes we are essential" & Bridget Conor, University of Auckland, New Zealand, “Is Kirsten’s Dunst’s nanny an essential worker? Studio NZ in the Covid times”
APRIL 11
@ THE TULANE RIVER & COASTAL CENTER
9:00–10:30 am
Zeynep Sertbulut, New York University, USA "Tensions, Commitments, and Tactics Within the Dizi Industry During the Covid-19 Pandemic" & Ergin Bulut, Koc University, Turkey "Drama contracts as documents of exception and meanings of risk in Turkey’s drama production during the pandemic"
11:00–12:30 pm
Skadi Loist, Film University Babelsberg, Germany, "Essential Intermediaries: How Film Festivals Have Re/Negotiated (Their Position Within) Film Culture during Covid-19" & Charlotte Orzel, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA "Fraught Gatherings: CinemaCon, ShowCanada, and Fractures of Promotional Discourse in the Exhibition Industry"
LUNCH
2:00–3:30 pm
Bill Grantham, Rufus- Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP, "Ireland: extending production facilities in a post-Covid world” & Miranda Banks, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA "On Valuing and Devaluing Labor: The Uses and Abuses of Defining How Hollywood Works"
4:00–5:30 pm
Toby Miller, Tulane University, USA "1922/2022" & Kate Fortmueller, University of Georgia, USA, "Policy and Reality in Hollywood’s Return to Work"
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