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

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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