Educational Background

• Ph.D in Film studies, University of Toulouse le Mirail, 2000
• Unit Degree in English Literature & Film, University of California, Berkeley, 1999
• Post-graduate Degree (DEA) in French comparative Literature, University of Toulouse, 1997
  - Summa cum Laude
  - Exceptional Distinction in the Film History major
• B.A., M.A., University of Bordeaux, 1995, 1996

Previous positions

• Research fellow: French National Centre for Scientific Research (2000-2004)
• Lecturer : University of Avignon, Paris, Metz, Toulouse (2000-2003)

Honors and Fellowships

• University of California Fellowship, Berkeley (1999, residency) (approx. $10,000)
• National Film Critic's Prize, French Ministry of Youngness (1996) ($2,000)
• Master's Thesis nominated for the International Filipo Sacchi Prize (International Film Critic's Competition organized in Italia)
• Resistance Dissertation Award, National Foundation for the memory of Holocaust (1992)

French & International academic responsibilities

• European Commission ( Brussels) : Expert-evaluator of proposals submitted by teachers and researchers to the Sixth Framework Human Resources and Mobility Program in the area of the human and social sciences: Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships (Individual fellowships); Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Early Stage Training, Marie Curie Host Fellowships for the Transfer of Knowledge (2003-….)
• French National Scientific Research Committee : elected member and appointed for four-year terms for the evaluation of public labs & researchers in the human and social sciences fields (2004 -….)
• French Ministry of Culture : expert for the evaluation of projects submitted for public funding in the video & multimedia area (2004 -….)

 

Fields of research

My research topics are about the public policies of support for culture and to the socio-economy of the media. Two directions can be distinguished :

1. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CULTURAL INDUSTRIES						Cultural policies / evaluation of the public policies of support for cultural industries : definition of the themes privileged by the commissions of support, stakes of the official supervisions, qualitative indicators about films / artists granted. Economy of cinema and television: Advances on receipts, support of French hertzian televisions in film production funding, France-Hollywood relations. Evaluation of the impact of the Canal+ chain in the public policy of support for the French cinema in the Eighties and Nineties. Evaluation of the impact of the exchange of cultural files in “peer to peer”. Institutional history of the cinema : history of relations between state and cinema in France. History of film-exhibition in france.

2. SOCIO-ECONOMY OF CULTURE AND MEDIA						Political sociology of culture : comparative approach between cinema industry social movements in France / European countries and USA. Origins of cultural exceptionalism in France (French cinema). Relations between cinema and national identity. Sociology of the expertise in the support for the culture and the media : professional commissions, networks, trade unions, lobbying, processes of legitimation of the choices, social stakes of the media.

Recent publications

Gimello-Mesplomb F. (2004), “can we responsabilize the new forms of audiovisual consumption ? ”, in The audiovisual Liberation, technological, economic and lawful stakes (Thomas Paris and all.), Paris: Dalloz Press.
Gimello-Mesplomb, F.:“The price of quality : French State and the cinema (1960-1965) ”, in Politix, review of social sciences of the policy, special issue "Politicies of cinema" (Jean-Marc Leveratto, Fabrice Montebello and all.), Vol. 16 n° 61, 2003, pp. 97-115.
Gimello-Mesplomb, F. and Latil, L.: “A policy of the cinema: French selection for the festival of Cannes ,” Protée , re-examined Presses of the University of Quebec, (Canada), Vol.31, n° 2, p. 17-28.
complete list of the publications

Books

GIMELLO-MESPLOMB F. (1998), George Delerue, a life Hélette: Editions Jean Curutchet Preface of Oliver Stone. 420 p. Diffusion: PUF

Recent communications

August 22, 2005: “The economic advancement of the documentary scientist televised in France since 1990 ”, International conference on the documentary cinema , Concordia University, Montreal (Canada).
April 13, 2005: “ cultural diversity: an engine for the process of Internationalization of the public policies of support for the audio-visual one? ”, seminar of Comparative Research the Interdisciplinary Center in Social Sciences (CIR-Paris) “ Management of cultural diversity in Europe ”, Paris: April 13.
April 6, 2005: “ Economic Stakes and policies related to the defense of cultural diversity as regards cinema ”, conference “the cinema in the center of the glances: prospects - futurologies”, University of Avignon. to listen (Windows media player)
April 5, 2005: “Does one Have to regard the TV by ADSL and the remote loading of films as the new shape of consumption of the cinema? ”, conference “the cinema in the center of the glances: prospective prospects – ”, University of Avignon. to listen (Windows media player)
October 14 200:. Round table “Of working to the setting in scene of reality ” (starting from film of J-F Ternay), with Baudoin Jurdant (Dir. of the UFR Information sciences and Communication, Univ. Paris VII, Denis Sergeant (scientific journalist), Denis Ruellan (Dir. of the department information-communication, IUT University of Rennes 1), Frederic Gimello-Mesplomb (Dir. of the GDR GREPIC, Univ. from Metz).
April 8, 2004: Day of study on the identity effects of the institutions . Titrate communication: “ Identity effects of the institutions on the professional movements: the case of the mobilizations around the culture ”
January 14, 2004: interview on Radio Freedom Europe (Moscow) to listen (Windows media player)
December 4, 2003: international conference of research on the mobilizations altermondialists organized by the AFSP (French Association of Political Science) and the GERMM. Titrate communication: “The movements antimondialisation on the cinema in the process of legitimation of the French cultural exception ” (10 p.)
May 26, 2003: Studies in French International Cinema Conference 2003 (French Institute, London, the U.K.). Titrate communication: “ Economy off French popular cinema during the 50 ' S: betwen State intervention and goes down for hearing enjoyment ” (12 p.)
June 27, 2003: 2de French-speaking international Conference of the communication and information sciences (Bucharest, Romania). Titrate communication: “ Analysis of the public mechanisms of support for the audio-visual programs in France: a tool with the service of the information sciences and communication ” (25 p.)