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[ecrea] Call for papers - Pornography: Margins and Extremes - Gorizia Spring School 2018 / Porn Studies Strand

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Call for papers - Pornography: Margins and Extremes

FilmForum 2018
XVI Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School / Porn Studies Strand
March 3rd-7th 2018

Deadline for submissions: October, 25th 2017
Address questions and proposals to: (goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com)>, (federico.zecca /at/ uniba.it) <mailto:(federico.zecca /at/ uniba.it)>, (g.maina /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(g.maina /at/ gmail.com)>, (eb16882 /at/ bristol.ac.uk) <mailto:(eb16882 /at/ bristol.ac.uk)>

In the 2018 edition of the Gorizia Spring School, the main objective of the Porn Studies section is to explore the margins and extremes of pornography in contemporary mediasphere, as well as in its historical developments.

The notions of margin and marginality may refer to “the place of repressed or subordinated textual meanings” (Brooker 2003: 152), but also to the specific position of non-mainstream intellectuals, subjects and social groups. In this sense, margin(ality) can either be a place of alienation, social exclusion, and normative oppression or a “space of radical openness” and a “position and place of resistance” (hooks 2015 [1989]: 228, 231; see also: Walker 1999), from which it is possible to re-articulate dominant discourses and produce new meanings and interpretative perspectives. At the same time, extremities and extremes can be understood in Foucauldian terms as places in which power becomes “capillary” (Foucault 1980: 39) and productive – that is where power is materialized in actual practices and produces real effects (Colucci 2004: 128) on bodies and subjectivities.

In our view, pornography can be understood as both a margin and an extreme of mainstream culture. In this perspective, it represents one of the places in which normative discourses and power dynamics are at their most visible and effective; on the other hand, however, pornography can sometimes be seen as the space of production of counter-discourses that might disrupt dominant perceptions and beliefs about gender, sexuality and the body.

With this in mind, we aim to analyse the repressed or subordinated textual and social meanings that characterize (or, conversely, that are produced by) pornography in its different historical and geographical forms, as well as to investigate the micro-politics of power at play in pornographic media and representations and their possible subversive re-articulations.

We invite proposals that explore, but are not restricted to, the following areas:

– Extreme pornography, extreme bodies, extreme representations

– Body modifications, aesthetic surgery and the re-conceptualization of aesthetic standards

– Marginal groups, identities, subjectivities in pornography

– Lives “at the margins”: performers, directors and producers’ biographies

– Marginal celebrities: the meaning of pornographic stardom in the wider context of celebrity culture

– Niche pornographic genres and consumption practices

– Marginal technologies of pornography: dismissed devices, obsolete media, outdated representations

– Marginal economies of pornography: small and independent studios, local businesses, memories of pornographic consumption

– At the margins of the city: movie theatres, arcades, sex shops as places of consumption and socialization

– Marginal pornographic industries and non-US productions

– Legal controversies, censorship, regulation

– Political debates on pornography: stigma and social scapegoating or liberation and empowerment

– Media discourses on pornography

– Mainstream representations of pornography (in film, television, press)

We invite you to send us proposals for papers or panels. The deadline for their submission is October, 25th 2017.

Proposals should not exceed one page in length. Please make sure to attach a short CV (10 lines max). A registration fee (€ 150) will be applied.

Address questions and proposals to: (goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(goriziafilmforum /at/ gmail.com)>, (federico.zecca /at/ uniba.it) <mailto:(federico.zecca /at/ uniba.it)>, (g.maina /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(g.maina /at/ gmail.com)>, (eb16882 /at/ bristol.ac.uk) <mailto:(eb16882 /at/ bristol.ac.uk)>
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