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[Commlist] CFP - L'Atalante 37 - Women and sport in audiovisual media: bodies, images, politics

Tue Feb 07 10:43:08 GMT 2023




CFP - L'Atalante 37 - Women and sport in audiovisual media: bodies, images, politics

L'Atalante is pleased to announce the call for papers of issue 37, which under the title "Women and sport in audiovisual media: bodies, images, politics", is open for contributions.

Submissions: 1 May 2023 to 31 May 2023
Date of publication: January 2024
Editors: Manuel Garin, María Aparisi Galán

Articles should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words including all sections. There are no article processing costs charged to authors.

Detailed information at:
http://www.revistaatalante.com/index.php?journal=atalante&page=announcement&op=view&path%5B%5D=109 <http://www.revistaatalante.com/index.php?journal=atalante&page=announcement&op=view&path%5B%5D=109>


WOMEN AND SPORT IN AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA: BODIES, IMAGES, POLITICS

Just as Roland Barthes and Umberto Eco foresaw, sport as a social construct has come to occupy a central place in the lifestyles and media habits of contemporary societies, to the point that many authors consider it to be one of the critical symptoms of broader processes of economic, geopolitical and cultural globalisation (Bale 1994, Carrington 2010, Critchley 2017). As far as images are concerned, there is an abundance of film and media productions dealing with sports figures, stories and locations that have had a big impact on the general public and on discussions about gender, racial and class identities. While live broadcasts and sports journalism have enjoyed hegemonic status for decades, in recent years there has also been an increasing number of film and media productions (biopics, docuseries, reality shows, fiction series, transmedia projects) filling the catalogues of online streaming services and generating discussion on social media. Norbert Elias’s historical theory of sport as a major force in the civilising process is being updated today in light of its absolutely central role in the contemporary process of “mediatisation”.

In this context, there is an urgent need to identify the audiovisual productions, icons and genres that have historically shaped or are currently shaping the social construct of sport in film, television and new media. To this end, as the football historian Jean Williams once pointed out, it is vital to establish forms of resistance and criticism that can update our understanding of sport from a gender studies perspective, placing the focus on how different women have written about, filmed, interpreted and documented sports through images. Despite the patriarchal dominance and highly masculinised attitude that still characterises the depiction of sports in the media today, film history offers case studies that can open up critical perspectives on the agency and representation of women in sport, ranging from the well-known case of Leni Riefenstahl and the German Bergfilme, or the iconographies of Soviet physical culture, to the various forms of indoctrination and uses of the female body during the Franco years in the NO-DO newsreels about the Sección Femenina, or the film-event "Las Ibéricas FC". A kind of gender performativity that transcends cinematic and geographical boundaries and extends into the present day can be traced in the work of European female actors and filmmakers such as Juliette Binoche and Céline Sciamma, emblematic works such as the Iranian film "Offside" and the American "Million Dollar Baby", or the worldwide success of "Bend It like Beckham", which the philosopher Sara Ahmed specifically analysed in her book The Promise of Happiness from the perspectives of race, queerness and feminism.

But beyond these and other examples from cinema, this issue is open to studies and proposals that address other audiovisual media and formats. These might include the connections between women and sport in TV series (from classic sitcoms to "Orange Is The New Black", the obsessive images of Robin Wright jogging in "House of Cards'', or "Killing Eve" and "The Hockey Girls''), the ways of depicting women’s sport in historical newsreels and in contemporary documentaries (from "Olympia" and the Istituto Luce or UFA archives, to contemporary films and docuseries about female footballers, tennis players and boxers), or strategies for self-filming the body in motion via platforms such as YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. A series of audiovisual creation and consumption strategies that revolve around what Dick Tomasovic called kino-tanz, “the choreographic art of cinema” (2009), combining the moving image with the kinetics of dance, music and physical culture. In this way, based on a critical rereading of sports iconography, and more specifically of images created by or featuring women, this call for papers is open to a wide range of topics, approaches, and lines of research, including:

- Depictions of the athlete’s body performed, filmed or distributed by women.

- Gender performativity related to sport in films, series and other audiovisual formats.

- Analysis of key scenes or actions depicting female sporting activity in non-sports films.

- Agency, sisterhood and feminisms in the social construct of sport and physical culture.

- Objectification, censorship and showcasing of the female body in sports images.

- Disciplines of the body, totalitarianism and women’s sport in news or documentaries.

- Case studies of biopics about fictional or real professional sportswomen from the perspective of star studies.

- Discourses of class, gender and race by or about women negotiated in sports images.

- Strategies for self-representation of sportswomen on social media and other new media.

- The role of the visual and the performative in the struggle to professionalise women’s sport.

- Women, sport and non-binary gender identities in contemporary audiovisual media.


References:

Ahmed, S. (2010). The Promise of Happiness. Durham: Duke University Press.

Bale, John (1994). Landscapes of modern sport. New York: Leicester University Press.

Balló, J. & Bergala, A. (2016). (eds.). Motivos visuales del cine. Barcelona: Galaxia Gutenberg.

Besnier, Niko et al (2017). The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Bou, Núria & Pérez, Xavier (eds.) (2018). El cuerpo erótico de la actriz bajo los fascismos. Madrid: Cátedra.

Butler, Judith (1993). Bodies that Matter. London: Routledge.

Carabías, Josefina (1950). La mujer en el fútbol. Barcelona: Editorial Juventud.

Carrington, Ben (2010). Race, sport and politics: the sporting black diaspora. London: Sage.

Coronado Ruiz, Carlota (2013). “Mussolini las quiere deportistas: mujer y deporte en los noticiarios cinematográficos Luce (1928-1943)”. Feminismo/s Num. 21.

Critchley, Simon (2017). What we think when we think about football. London: Profile Books.

Crosson, Seán (2013). Sport and Film. London: Routledge.

Didi-Huberman, Georges. (2009). La imagen superviviente. Madrid: Abada.

Dunn, Carrie (2014). Female Football Fans. Community, Identity and Sexism. London: Palgrave McMillan.

Dyer, Richard (1986). Heavenly bodies: film stars and society. London: British Film Institute.

Gil Gascón, F. & Cabezas Deogracias, J. (2012). Pololos y medallas: la representación del deporte femenino en NO-DO (1943-1975). Historia y Comunicación Social 17.

Gori, Gigliola (2004). Italian Fascism and the Female Body. London: Routledge.

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Haraway, Donna (1991). “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” en Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge.

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Pastor Pascual, Ana (2021). #Chandaleras. Masculinidad femenina vs. feminidad obligatoria en el deporte. Piedra Papel Libros.

Sentamans, Tatiana (2010). Amazonas mecánicas: engranajes visuales, políticos y culturales. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura.

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Tomasovic, Dick (2009). Kino-Tanz. L’Arte Chorégraphique du Cinéma. Paris: PUF.

Williams, Jean (2007). A Beautiful Game: International Perspectives on Women’s Football. New York: Berg.

Zubiaurre, Maite (2014). Culturas del erotismo en España, 1898-1939. Madrid: Cátedra.


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