"The Politics of Casting in Media"
20-21 November 2021
We invite proposals from academia and industry for 20-minute papers and 80-minute panels to be presented at the international and interdisciplinary two-day online conference The Politics of Casting in Media, hosted by the Faculty of Creative Industries at the University of South Wales.
We particularly welcome proposals from postgraduate students, PhD candidates, early career researchers, industry experts, trade bodies, guilds, NGOs, and charities. Submissions from a variety of perspectives, theoretical underpinnings, and methodological approaches that cover all media – such as film, television, theatre, radio, animation, video games, advertising – are welcome, with possible topics including (but
not limited to):
- Character representation and identity (such as race, gender,
- sexuality, age, class, and ‘non-normative’ bodies)
- The role of casting director within media productions
- Auditioning processes
- Support for marginalised groups gaining employment
- Marketing, paratextual, and transmedial engagement with casts
- Celebrity, stardom, and performance
- The re-casting of characters
- Media texts centring on casting, such as /Black Hollywood: ‘They
- Gotta Have Us’ /(BBC Two, 2020) and /Disclosure /(Netflix, 2020)
- Colourblind casting
- Casting in bi-lingual/back-to-back productions
- Audience responses to cast choices
- Fan and anti-fan practices
- Toxic audience behaviour
- Casting and Covid-19
- The political economy of casting
- International media collaborations
- Casting and pedagogy
- Casting outside of Hollywood and mainstream media
- Voice acting in radio, video games, animated media, and CGI
- Background actors, non-speaking roles, and extras
- Industry commitments to inclusion and diversity
- Tokenism and the burden of representation
- Histories of castin
bios (maximum 150 words) to James Rendell james.rendell@southwales.ac.uk
Submissions should include your name, the title of your paper, and your institutional or professional affiliation (if appropriate; we strongly welcome independent scholars and freelance professionals). We also seek proposals for 80-minute panels. Panel submissions (maximum 1050 words) should include abstracts, institutional/professional affiliations, and contact information for all speakers. As an inclusive international online conference, speakers will have the option to present live or submit pre-recorded videos.
Submission Deadline: 31 July 2021
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