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Editorial NECSUS

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

Today the tower’s flock, the usual birds, flew in a kind of scatter pattern, their paths intricately chaotic, the bunch parting and interweaving like boiling pasta under a pot’s lifted lid. It appeared someone had given the birds new instructions, had whispered that there was something to avoid, or someone to fool. I once heard […]

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For a global approach to audiovisual heritage: A plea for North/South exchange in research and practice 

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Giovanna Fossati In the digital space, an alarming misrepresentation of our global audiovisual heritage is occurring. Whereas audiovisual archives and research institutions in the Global North (in particular Europe and North America) are eagerly digitising their own national heritage, their counterparts in the Global South (low- and middle-income countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America) […]

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History is, media studies is

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by John Sundholm The extensive and sprawling discussion on the archive – regardless of your position or your take on the matter – has irrevocably deconstructed any naïve position vis-a-vis our presumed object of study, making us aware of the contingency of the contexts and the obscurity of the objects. The archive is a regulated, […]

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Beyond the crisis of film studies

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Petr Szczepanik If compared to my dear memories of the early years of NECS, film studies (I chose to address the state of film studies instead of media studies, because the former is the core discipline of NECS) as an academic field certainly lost some of its integrity, as did film as a medium […]

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Still thinking it over: The history of cinema, global industries, and local film cultures, as viewed from Spain

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Valeria Camporesi Following the invitation from NECSUS for its tenth anniversary issue, now seems the right time to look back at the ever-growing field of film studies and take the risk of putting forward a personal appraisal. But before considering the broader implications of my research career, I wish to acknowledge that neither my […]

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The elusive form of film

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Lúcia Nagib Film scholars in the new millennium have to live with an existential dilemma. Their very raison d’être, i.e. ‘film’, has become a chaotic constellation of audiovisual artefacts, mostly in digital form, bearing little or no relation to the endearing perforated film strip that continues to illustrate so many of our activities. Whether […]

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Who let the docs out?: Trials, tribulations, and thrills in media studies

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Melis Behlil In trying to envision any future for media studies, the pessimist and the optimist in me seem to engage in a game of tug of war. On the one hand, pressures on academics – be it financial, political, and/or practical – have been mounting across the disciplines and across the world. On […]

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Ethical imperatives: Reflections on the past and future of media studies

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Mette Hjort Reflecting on the texts and events that I see as having been generative for media studies, on the challenges that lie ahead for the field, and on the possible futures that we must dare to hope for, my mind repeatedly returns to a cluster of issues that all sit neatly beneath the […]

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Ten years of NECSUS: A birthday card

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Miriam De Rosa Happy birthday, NECSUS! You are a big kid now. You saw so many things happening and you offered your e-pages to many extraordinary authors to report, think through, analyse those things! Ten years is a long time. Even longer when they entail both a hyper-acceleration in the use of media infrastructure, […]

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‘Work’ and ‘labour’ in film and media studies: Lifepath, introspection, survival

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Andrea Virginás We have a tutorial for every problem we face, every work that needs tending to. Academic life is no exception, with the 2021 autumn televisual series The Chair actually a twofold tutorial. Amanda Peet and Julia Wyman’s creation is a funny and explicit introduction to departmental and faculty housework – be it […]

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Murky Waters: Submerging in an aesthetics of non-transparency

December 13, 2021/in Audiovisual Essays, Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Jaap Kooijman and Patricia Pisters ‘Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations, silt that is fertile but, in actual fact, indistinct and unexplored even […]

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There is no such thing as Balkan cinema, and yes, Balkan cinema exists: Ruminations on the past and possible futures of Balkan cinema (and media) studies?

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Ana Grgić Twenty years ago, discussing cinema of the Southeastern corner of Europe, Dina Iordanova argued that the Balkans should capitalise on their togetherness and turn the problematic position of ‘being Balkan’ from a burden to a strength.[1] At the time, Iordanova was defining the concept of ‘Balkan cinema’, based on the ‘inclusive understanding […]

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Postmigrant media futures

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Ömer Alkin I Introduction The following essay proposes an intersection of the concept of postmigration and media studies. I will present arguments on how this concept of postmigration might be contoured: first of all, the postmigrant situation implies that theoretical heritage committed to movement and the creation of in-between spaces as a productive force. […]

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Operative Imaginaries

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by Laliv Melamed Considering how our field shifted in the past decade, I find it to be a telling irony that NECSUS, which launched a decade ago with an issue on ‘Crisis’, marks its anniversary with an issue on ‘Futures’.[1] In this essay I deliberate how the paradigm of the operative image shapes the way […]

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Endings, beginnings, and transformations

December 13, 2021/in Autumn 2021_#Futures

by María Paz Peirano Certainly, this is not the world we expected it to be, at least not for my generation. As I grew up in Chile in the 1990s, it seemed that the world’s future was bright, that certain fights were already won, and that we could only aspire to more. In a way, we […]

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Martine Beugnet
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Greg de Cuir Jr
University of Arts Belgrade

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University of Helsinki

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Universiteit Utrecht

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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University of Amsterdam

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