[ecrea] CFP: Transgressive Bodies and Anglo-American Cinema

Over recent years both mainstream Hollywood and independent film have 
increasingly politicized the transgressive body. Complex, humorous and 
often sympathetic representations of otherwise deviant sexualities have 
become a staple of film across a diverse range of genres. Film has 
engaged in ambivalent ways with issues such as paedophilia (The Woodsman 
[Kassell, 2004], Little Children [Field, 2006], Happiness [Solondz, 
1998], Sleepers [Levinson, 1996], Mysterious Skin [Araki, 2004], Notes 
on a Scandal [Eyre, 2006], Trust [Schwimmer, 2010]), cross-generational 
love and desire among adults (The Mother [Michell, 2003], Elegy [Coixet, 
2008]), agentic teen bodies (Thirteen [Hardwicke, 2003], Pretty 
Persuasion [Siega, 2005], Hard Candy [Slade, 2005], The Babysitters 
[Ross, 2007], sex addiction (Shame [McQueen, 2011], BDSM (Secretary 
[Shainberg, 2002]), vengeful bodies (Teeth [Lichtenstein, 2007]) and 
necrophilia (Child of God [Franco, 2013]. Following on from important 
critical work on ‘deviant’ sexualities and the transgressive body, this 
book will focus on Anglo-American film over the last 20 years and 
explore transgressive bodies in their socio-political and cultural 
context, paying particular attention to:

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The feminist/gendered implications of cross-generational desire
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Sympathetic/humorous constructions of paedophilia and resistance to 
moral panic discourses
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Excessive bodies in their cultural contexts
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Porn/sex addiction and sexualization discourses
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Intimacy, technology and digital sexual selves/disembodied sexualities
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Representations of prostitutes, strippers and sex workers
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Sex after death: necrophilia, eroticism and the supernatural
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Vengeful bodies (rape revenge narratives)
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Sex, disability, disfigurement and contagion
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Bodies, ethics and boundaries (students/teachers, doctors/patients)
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Teen bodies, agency and spectatorship
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Vanity and extreme body modification



Abstracts of 300 words (for chapters of 6,000 words) and author 
biography to be submitted to Joel Gwynne ((joel.gwynne /at/ nie.edu.sg)) by 
March 31st 2014.


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