[Commlist] Call for Papers: Fashion, Style & Popular Culture Special Issue (Porn Chic, Erotic Style and Fashion)

Call for Papers: Fashion, Style & Popular Culture


*Special Issue: Porn Chic, Erotic Style and Fashion*

https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/42060/1/cfps_Porn_Chic_Erotic_Style_and_Fashion.pdf


Guest Editor:

Lori Hall-Araujo, Stephens College


Marginalized people led empowerment movements resulting in significant 
cultural transformations in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United 
States and beyond. Among the fights for equality and calls for 
structural systemic change emerged a sexual revolution that found its 
way into the mainstream. In 1972, the topic of cinematic pornography 
entered public discourse when the feature-length hardcore heterosexual 
pornographic film Deep Throat (Damiano, 1972) debuted in Times Square. 
For the first time in American cinema, sexual acts appeared on the big 
screen in legitimate theatres and broad swaths of the moviegoing public 
– including women and celebrities – boasted about having seen the film. 
So launched the 1970s era of ‘porno chic’ filmmaking and the trend for 
watching narrative hardcore films in theaters.


By the 1980s, home videos and eventually on-demand and streaming 
services made

pornography more accessible and simultaneously a more private pursuit. 
Coinciding with this shift was the phenomenon of women in popular 
culture expressing their sexual empowerment through 
self-objectification. Fashion scholar Annette Lynch (Lynch 2012: 52) 
traces the origins of women and girls’ porn-inspired millennium styles 
to 1980s performers such as Madonna who used self-objectification to 
gain attention and power. Lynch notes the continued practice of female 
pop stars to market sexiness and inspire what she calls ‘porn chic’.


This special issue engages the topic of porn chic and addresses 
pornography’s historical and contemporary relationship to fashion. Porn 
Chic, Erotic Style and Fashion encourages consideration of erotic style 
broadly defined with an aim to build understanding of its cultural 
implications. Contributions are accepted from any discipline and 
methodological approach.


Potential topics might include but are not limited to:


  *

    fashion trends in subcultural sexual communities

  *

    production aesthetics, music styles, body types,

  *

    fashion and costume tropes in pornography

  *

    porn, fashion and cosmetic surgery/body modifications

  *

    the public and private in porn and fashion

  *

    queer fashion and style subversions of heteronormative porn

  *

    heteronormative women’s sexiness: empowering or charade of authentic
    power?

  *

    porn and fashion as capitalist productions

  *

    porn and fashion’s relationship to race and fetishes

  *

    lesbian porn for straight men and lesbian chic in fashion

  *

    gay porn’s impact on mainstream men’s fashions

  *

    porn’s influence on fashion photography

  *

    BDSM style and mainstream fashion

  *

    social media, free porn and body image among boys and young men

  *

    incel ideologies, homoeroticism and changing notions of the ideal
    masculine physique

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    Instagram, influencers and the demise of Playboy

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    porn film style and fashion case studies.


Deadline for Submission is 1 September 2020. Publication 2021. For 
questions regarding submission topics please email guest editor Lori 
Hall-Araujo, Stephens College at (lhallaraujo /at/ stephens.edu) 
<mailto:(lhallaraujo /at/ stephens.edu)>. For questions regarding journal 
submission guidelines and standards please email or contact the 
Principle Editor Dr. Joseph H. Hancock, II at (joseph.hancockii /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(joseph.hancockii /at/ gmail.com)>.


FSPC takes submission on a rolling basis with reviews commencing 
immediately for acceptance to all guest issues. We do not make 
publication decisions on the submission deadline date. All manuscripts 
should expect review and turnaround within 60 days.



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