[Commlist] CFP: Gender, Genre and the Body in Contemporary North American and European Film

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**/Gender, Genre and the Body in Contemporary North American and 
European Film/
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Gender and the body are inextricably connected, and it could be argued 
that within any given filmic context, they are also closely related to 
genre and generic traditions. Moreover, genres often use genders, gender 
stereotypes and bodies in diverse and specific ways, and gender and its 
relationship to the body performs different functions in the context of 
any given genre. In horror, for example, the body is typically tortured, 
ruptured and made abject, as evidenced in films such as /Human Centipede 
II/ (dir. Tom Six, 2011), /Prevenge/ (dir.Alice Lowe, 2016) and 
/Raw/ (dir. Julia Ducournau, 2016). In action/adventure films, for 
instance, the body and the performance of gender is usually spectacular, 
robust and is tested to the limit, in films like /The Expendables/ (dir. 
Sylvester Stallone, 2010), /White House Down/ (dir. Roland Emmerich, 
2013), and /Atomic Blonde /(dir. David Leitch, 2017).

With this in mind, this collection aims to critically examine and 
interrogate the representation of the body and its relationship 
to/ both/ gender and genre in contemporary North American and European 
films. For the sake of clarity,  we are interpreting contemporary to 
mean post-2010 films, and films included and under discussion should 
have been produced and circulated in any North American or European 
country or countries. Moreover, we are specifically using the term 
‘film’ instead of ‘cinema’ as we are interesting in accepting chapters 
that not only examine and discuss theatrically-released films, but also 
underground and avant-garde films, and we have also included a section 
dedicated to pornographic films too.

The collection itself will be structured around popular genres, as follows:

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    Horror
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    Comedy
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    Action/Adventure
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    Romance
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    Drama/Melodrama
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    Science-fiction
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    (Hard-core) Pornography
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    Musical

We aim to secure 3 chapters for each section, with each chapter being 
around 6,000 words long. In regards to hybrid genres (such as the 
rom-com or the ‘thriller’) it will be at the discretion of the editors 
to decide where to best place the chapter, and this decision will 
revolve around which films are being used as case studies, as well as 
how the author of the chapter frames their argument. In other words, we 
do not discourage applications which are concerned with hybrid films, 
even though we do not have dedicated sections to hybrid genres or 
sub-genres.

Furthermore, chapters may centre on (but are not limited to):

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    Masculinity, genre and the body
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    Femininity, genre and the body
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    Intersections of race, gender and the body
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    Intersections of sexuality, gender and the body
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    Intersections of class, gender and the body
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    Feminist approaches to gender, genre and the body
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    Embodiment
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    Queer bodies
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    Gender, genre and disability
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    Gender and/or bodily stereotypes
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    Labour, agency and the ‘working body’
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    Artificial bodies
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    ‘Unreal’ and/or spectacular bodies

The editors have been in contact with Edinburgh University Press, for 
this to be included in their ‘Gender and the Body in Contemporary 
Literature and Culture’ series, which the series editors have responded 
enthusiastically to. Once abstracts have been accepted, a formal 
proposal will be sent to EUP in December 2019, with publication of the 
collection hopefully being early-to-mid 2022.

Please send abstracts of 250 – 300 words, with a supporting bio of no 
more than 100 words, to (gendergenrebodies /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(gendergenrebodies /at/ gmail.com)> by _Friday 18th October 2019._ If 
you have any questions, or we can help you in any way, please do let us 
know via email.

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