This workgroup is intended to bring together scholars interested in cinema/film dealing with social issues:

• social realism and other conventions of social cinema;
• strategies of presenting and expressing social issues on the screen(s);
• tension between the societies/communities and its cinematic images;
• social identity of cinema;
• ideological potential of narrative strategies;
• social determinants in cinema production culture;
• transnational aspect of social cinema;
• local and global impact of cinematic representations of social issues
• migrant, postmigrant and transmigrant cinema(s);
• transcultural/transnational structures in contemporary cinema: narratives, aesthetics, plots, production conditions, distribution, reception
• film as migrating art

Through this work group we intend to create a forum for the exchange of ideas and information concerning our research, and also to organise sessions and seminars.

You will need to be approved by workgroup lead.