CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR JOURNAL OF GREEK MEDIA AND CULTURE

Greek screen industries: Perspectives, Methodologies, and Practices

Digital technologies are rapidly transforming the modes of production, distribution, and consumption of screen media worldwide. This special issue will focus on the impact of such developments on Greek screen industries, especially cinema, television, and video-on-demand.  We are seeking abstracts for articles that will examine any aspect of these screen industries, from a national, transnational and/or diasporic perspective. We welcome innovative methodologies and explorations of distinctive industrial practices that situate local practices in a global context.

Particular areas of interest may include but not limited to the following:

• Modes of production and distribution of media companies
• Funding environment and the screen industries/inwards and outwards investment in the screen industries sector (eg. cash rebates)
• Collaboration in the screen industries/collaborative screen industries/co-productions
• Digital strategies
• Media convergence in Greek screen industries
• Transmedia storytelling
• Franchised entertainment
• Screen industries ownership/concentration and stakeholders
• Promotional screen industries
• Video on Demand/streaming platforms
• Netflix in Greece
• Terrestrial television licensing/audiovisual policies
• Diasporic screen industries and links with Greece
• Content imports and exports

Please send a title, 300 word abstract and a short bio to

Dr. Lydia Papadimitriou (editorJGMC@gmail.com<mailto:editorJGMC@gmail.com>),

Dr. Yannis Tzioumakis (y.tzioumakis@liverpool.ac.uk<mailto:y.tzioumakis@liverpool.ac.uk>) and

Georgia Aitaki (g.aitaki@gmail.com<mailto:g.aitaki@gmail.com>)

by 30 June 2019. The final articles should be 6,000-8,000  words and submitted to the editors by 31 December 2019.