[Commlist] Call for Chapters: Women and Violence in Greek Cinema

Women and Violence in Greek Cinema
Edited by Tonia Kazakopoulou

Gender-based violence has always existed as an urgent point of 
discussion in global and Greek feminist movements, and from time to time 
acquired prominence in public debate, informing political and 
legislative contexts and cultural production.
In recent years, feminicide has reached epidemic proportions in Greece. 
The rise in violence against women and feminicide has been sometimes 
framed as being a consequence of socio-political and financial crises, 
or the result of unprecedented restrictions and pressures due to the 
pandemic; and has even reignited a public ‘debate’ in some of the 
popular press reporting on right wing political views, with deeply 
misogynist roots, on whether to recognise the killing of women by men as 
feminicide at all.

At the same time, movements such as #MeToo in Greece and feminist 
activism have sought to resist misogynist narratives and push back 
against long-standing masculinist systems of oppression and violence.

In this context, it is more important than ever that we examine the 
relationship between women and violence, in all its forms, in the 
country’s cultural production. This edited volume focuses on Greek and 
Greek diasporic cinema and invites contributions that consider a variety 
of approaches relating to the broader topic of women and violence in the 
country’s cinematic output. Topics and approaches may include, though 
this list is not exhaustive:

Women and representations of violence in Greek and/or Greek diasporic cinema
Women as victims of violence Women as perpetrators of violence
Women and complicity in violence Mental health, women and violence
Religion, women and violence
Trans women and violence Migrant or refugee women and violence
Conflict, women and violence Histories of women and violence in Greek 
and/or Greek diasporic cinema
Greek film movements, waves or trends in relation to women and violence
Focused studies of films examining women and violence in Greek and/or 
Greek diasporic cinema
Genre, women and violence Documentary, women and violence
Identities/Identity politics, women and violence (intersectional 
approaches particularly encouraged)
Greek film industry contexts, women and violence
Film criticism, women and violence

Initially please submit an abstract by 30th October 2022. Your abstract 
should be between 300-350 words long, and accompanied by a 100-word bio.
Although a major UK-based publisher has shown interest in the volume, a 
formal proposal will be submitted once I have confirmed the content of 
the collection. If selected, authors will be notified by 20th November 
2022. The anticipated deadline for submission of chapters (6000 – 8000 
words in length) is end of July 2023.
Please send your abstract and bio in a single file to 
(womenandviolence.greekcinema /at/ gmail.com) by the stated deadline above.

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