[ecrea] Call for Essays - Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversities

>TAINTED LOVE: SCREENING SEXUAL PERVERSITIES
>edited by Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy
>
>Original proposals are sought for an edited 
>collection on the representation of sexual 
>perversities on screen. The screen has a long 
>history of providing a space in which taboo 
>sexual practices and perversions have been 
>played out in multiple and diverse ways. Matters 
>of taboo and perversity are too often located 
>within discourses of moral panic, degeneracy, 
>deviance and disease, which present those who 
>enact such sexualities as modern folk devils. 
>The contemporary screen has explicitly and 
>expressively interacted with such discourses and debates.
>
>The representation of paedophilia, incest, 
>necrophilia, zoophilia, intergenerational 
>relationships, sadism, masochism, bondage, 
>domination, kink and fetish, and themes of 
>obsession, addiction, and erotomania have been 
>foregrounded on screen. While the expectation 
>may be that such social, cultural and/or legal 
>transgressions would be the exclusive terrain of 
>art and alternative cinemas, a significant move 
>towards the mainstream is evident in examples 
>such as HBOâ¬"s Six Feet Under (2001-2005), 
>Andrew Jareckiâ¬"s documentary Capturing the 
>Friedmans (2003), Nicole Kassellâ¬"s independent 
>film The Woodsman (2004), and Lee Danielsâ¬" 
>recent Oscar winner Precious (2009).
>
>The screen is yet to be fully acknowledged and 
>explored for its engagement with such topics. 
>Just as the screen is offering more challenging 
>and thought-provoking approaches, critical 
>studies need to interrogate this area and 
>provide a coherent account of cinematic and 
>televisual representations. The aim of this 
>collection is to explore the â¬Sperverse⬝ 
>beyond the limited and negative semantic and 
>discursive fields that constrict both meaning 
>and understanding. In order to move past binary 
>distinctions of good and bad, normal and 
>abnormal, moral and immoral, TAINTED LOVE seeks 
>to critically interrogate perverse sexualities 
>and sexual perversities on screen that range 
>from condemnation and demonisation to 
>representations that offer alternatives to pathologising such sexualities.
>
>Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following topics:
>
>" socio-cultural/historical approaches
>" critical/theoretical debates
>" industry/institutional approaches: Hollywood, 
>independent, teleevision, world and European 
>cinemas, art, alternative and the mainstream
>" genre: horror, comedy, documentary, pornography
>" gender, sexuality and sexual deviance
>" the eroticisation and sexualisation of childhood
>" censorship and coding
>" adapting the perverse from literature to film
>" ethics and morality
>" audiences and spectatorship
>" authorship, stardom and performance
>" the representation of paedophilia, incest, 
>necrophilia, zoophillia, intergenerational relationships, BDSM
>" themes of sexual obsession, addiction and erotomania.
>Please send proposals of 250-300 words and a 
>short biography by 1st June 2010 to:
>Darren Kerr (Darren.Kerr /at/ solent.ac.uk) and Donna 
>Peberdy (Donna.Peberdy /at/ solent.ac.uk)
>
>Darren Kerr is a Senior Lecturer in film and 
>television at Southampton Solent University. He 
>has published articles on screen violence, 
>adaptation and sex on screen. He is the 
>co-editor of Hard to Swallow: Hard-core 
>Pornography on Screen (Wallflower Press, forthcoming).
>
>Donna Peberdy is a Senior Lecturer in film and 
>television at Southampton Solent University. Her 
>research and publications focus on masculinity, 
>sexuality and performance in American cinema.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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