eDCINEMA Meeting: Small cinemas in European Digital Space

On the 22th of February, the Faculty of Communication (USC) hosts the first working session of the “eDCINEMA: eDCINEMA: Cara o Espazo Dixital Europeo. O papel das cinematografías pequenas en versión original”. This research, carried out by the Group of Audiovisual Studies under the direction of Margarita Ledo Andión, aims to detect barriers that prevent the consolidation cinema in original version as a mediating agent in diversity policies in order to identificate the key to improve the visibility and accessibility of these cinematographies inside the digital and community space.

The project presents a research team composed of members from different Spanish universities (Madrid, Malaga, Murcia, Salamanca, Sevilla, Basque Country and Vigo) and has the support of renowned international scholars as Jacques Guyot (University Paris 8), Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam) Hannu Vanhanen (University of Lapland) and Steve Blandford (University of Glamorgan).

In the first of the Days eDCINEMA, researchers will advance in the development of the state of the art. At this time, the meeting will be attended by Demetrio Brisset (University of Malaga), Begoña Gutiérrez (University of Salamanca), Francisco Sierra (University of Seville), Francisco Azpillaga (University of Basque Country) and Monica Valderrama (University of Vigo).