[Discussion] What is a DVD?

[Gonul Pultar]

Conference Title: "Some people are disappointed to only get the film":
What is a DVD?

Conference date: Saturday 23rd April 2005

Location: Humanities Research Centre,
The University of Warwick,
Coventry, UK

Deadline for submission: 31st October 2004

The recent development and mass marketing of DVD technology has had a major
impact on the film and television industries' production-text-audience 
relations.
This poses important questions for the academic study of contemporary media.
DVDs have not only been pivotal to the promotion of the 'home cinema'
experience, but have also fundamentally altered what the 'text' is. 
Recent labour
disputes highlight DVD's place at the centre of contemporary debates about
media ownership, whilst the marketing of 'DVD extras', the technology's
interactivity, as well as its developing DVD-ROM use is generating audience
expectations that now leave 'some people disappointed to only get the film'
(V.F. Perkins, 2003).

This conference will be the first international event to fully address the
implications of DVD for contemporary media and visual culture scholarship.
The conference will focus on the impact that DVDs have had on the production
and reception of film and television texts, alongside considerations of the
nature and formation of the DVD texts themselves.

Papers already con?rmed from Professor John Caldwell (UCLA), Assc. Professor
Barbara Klinger (Indiana University), Professor Ginette Vincendeau
(University of Warwick), Dr. Glyn Davis (Edinburgh College of Art) and Dr.
Catherine Grant (University of Kent).

A broad range of topics will be welcomed, but papers are particularly
encouraged on the following:

Industry and economics - for example, marketing and constituting film/TV
texts on DVD; Digital economic imperatives (e.g. cinema release and DVD
timeframes)

Academic Research - i.e. impact on availability/archiving of film and TV
texts; the perils/worth of DVD extras etc

New Media - what is new about the DVD?

The Text - What is the DVD text? Interactive implications for linear media
forms etc

Ethnographic studies - modes of audience address; the constitution of DVD
audiences


Proposals for papers should be no longer than 300 words and sent to
J.A.Bennett@warwick.ac.uk 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=J.A.Bennett@warwick.ac.uk> 
or Tom.Brown@warwick.ac.uk 
<https://charon.bcc.bilkent.edu.tr/basilix/basilix.php?RequestID=CMPSNEW&premail=-1&is_ssl=&cmps_to=Tom.Brown@warwick.ac.uk> 
by 31st October 2004


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