Money for writing: Screenplay development and screenwriters earnings in French cinema

The funds allocated to developing screenplays currently constitute on average 2 to 3% of the overall budget of a film in France. Producers are more than ever dependent on presenting attractive draft screenplays to find their financial partners. As a result, screenwriters undoubtedly are active economic partners of production planning, but they do not seem to receive much professional recognition for this vital role. Moreover, their earnings often fail to reflect the amount of work produced and do not reward adequately the risks taken, including the possibility that production could stop after the screenplay is written. This article investigates the place of screenplay development within the economics of French cinema. Using recently published official reports and interviews, the author identifies different types of screenwriters – freestanding screenwriters, writing teams and screenwriters co-writing with the director – and addresses their working conditions. She surveys some of the contract modalities for the remuneration of professional screenwriters. Finally, she reviews the proposals made by different professional bodies to improve the remuneration of screenwriters and reform the financing of screenwriting

À vos marques, prêts, partez ! Les défis et les opportunités du marché de l’emploi universitaire contemporain

À la suite de la tenue de l’atelier intitulé « Qu’arrive-t-il après le doctorat ? Défis, pratiques et stratégies pour affronter l’“après-thèse” » qui a été organisé par la professeure Sule Tomkinson dans le cadre du 55e Congrès de la Société québécoise de science politique et 7e Congrès international des associations francophones de science politique, cet article s’intéresse aux défis et aux possibilités qui se présentent pour un grand nombre de doctorants désireux de décrocher un poste de professeur menant à la permanence et entreprendre une carrière dans le monde universitaire. De manière plus spécifique, cet article propose une série de stratégies permettant aux candidats à un poste de professeur menant à la permanence de mieux se positionner dans le cadre de leurs études doctorales et de leur recherche d’emploi.Following the French-language workshop titled “Qu’arrive-t-il après le doctorat? Défis, pratiques et stratégies pour affronter l’‘après-thèse’” organized during the 55e Congrès de la Société québécoise de science politique and the 7e Congrès international des associations francophones de science politique by Professor Sule Tomkinson, this paper unpacks the challenges and opportunities for doctoral students wanting to secure a tenure-track professor job and begin a career in higher education. Specifically, it offers a series of tactics enabling students to position themselves strategically as they complete their doctoral studies and prepare to enter the academic job market

Broadcast political marketing communication

In an era of permanent campaigning, political organisations and politicians rely heavily on broadcast marketing communications to achieve wide-ranging objectives in a cost-effective way in and out of elections. This chapter provides a deep dive into broadcast communication. It explores how political marketing communication can be used to communicate information about political leaders, in a campaign, to increase support in particular segments of the public, and to sell policy and political change, as well as to manage crises in a context of non-stop campaigning, in and out of elections. From a broader perspective, several authors’ work, including Alex Marland, has taken interest in the effects of broadcast political marketing on different facets of the democratic process. Work remains in order to better identify, characterise, and understand the different ethical considerations in broadcast political marketing communication in and out of elections, especially in an era of increased broadcast political marketing activity in the digital mediascape.</p

Tweet, Click, Vote: Twitter and the 2010 Ottawa Municipal Election

In Canada, Twitter still played a mostly peripheral role in political communication, mobilization, and organizing in 2010. This study provides a snapshot in time of how Twitter was redefining local political campaigns before social media become ubiquitous in electioneering. Focusing on the 2010 municipal elections in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (the nation’s capital), this study considers how and to what extent social networking platforms help shape the dynamics of local electioneering; it maps the ways in which Twitter was used by the Ottawa-Carleton district school board, the Ottawa catholic school board, the Eastern Ontario French-language public school board, and ward and mayoral candidates for voter outreach; it also identifies what were then novel ways in which voters creatively used Twitter to participate independently in the electoral process and to attempt to influence its outcome. Finally, it discusses how traditional news organizations experimented with social media in covering elections and engaging with audiences and voters

Les groupes minoritaires et/ou marginalisés à l’ère numérique. Introduction

Les dynamiques de communication et d’engagement politique à l’échelle internationale témoignent d’une série de transformations notamment liées au développement des technologies numériques au cours de la dernière décennie. La montée en puissance du populisme comme forme d’expression politique (Boulin et Levy, 2018 ; De Vreese et al., 2018 ; Salgado et Sravakakis, 2019) ainsi que la personnalisation, la diversification et la fragmentation des modes et des grammaires d’engagement politique (Brük..