[ecrea] Call for papers: Visions of Struggle

>Call for papers:
>
>Three or four collaborators in the areas of Women's Filmmaking in Spain,
>Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and Egypt are required for a publication
>entitled:
>Visions of Struggle: Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean
>
>Prospective collaborators should already have completed a PhD and have at
>least three refereed publications to their name. Interested parties should
>contact Flavia Laviosa at (flaviosa /at/ wellesley.edu) in the first instance,
>detailing their proposed chapter submission and enclosing a brief academic
>CV.
>
>Description and goals of the book proposal:
>
>Focusing on the neighboring countries in the Mediterranean rim, as the
>general unifying geo-cultural location for a contemporary discussion on
>women's human, civil, and social rights, this book elaborates a
>cross-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle, transcending
>geo-ethnic boundaries and bringing together shared life experiences.  The
>collection situates feminist arguments on questions of women's psychology,
>anthropology, and sexuality.  Such issues are examined through the works
>of contemporary women directors from Mediterranean countries, whose cinema
>is confrontational and relevant to the discourse of women's studies. These
>artists are mobilized by diverse cinematic forms of intervention, take on
>the responsibility as leading advocates for women's problems, and
>purposefully use their cinematic art to document a new feminist social
>realism.  Contributors examine films which are expressions of
>counter-cinema, cultural contestation and political commitment for
>Mediterranean women's collective experience of struggle.  Innovative in
>content, groundbreaking in its multi-disciplinary approach to film text
>analysis and women's issues, this volume is a significant contribution to
>the development of transnational and comparative feminist film studies.
>Visions of Struggle is an excellent resource for scholars and students
>interested in film, women's, and cultural studies in the Mediterranean.
>
>Papers should:
>a) discuss only women directors from Mediterranean countries
>b) include in your discussion preferably only films directed from the year
>2000 to now
>  c) select only directors/films that address issues pertaining to women's
>cultural and psychological issues, as well as themes related to women's
>social and civil rights
>d) motivate your director(s)' and film(s)' choices as expressions of
>counter-cinema
>e) situate your director(s)' and film(s)' choices as artistic
>voices/expressions of a feminist discourse in the Mediterranean rim
>f) develop a multi-disciplinary approach to film text analysis and women's
>issues (including psychological, cultural, sociological, anthropological,
>political and historical aspects)
>
>Word limit of submittted papers 7,500 including notes and bibliography.
>Chicago Style for the Humanities. The papers will be reviewed by external
>and anonimous referees.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Flavia Laviosa
>
>
>Flavia Laviosa, PhD
>Senior Lecturer
>Department of Italian Studies
>Wellesley College
>106 Central Street
>Wellesley, MA 02481
>USA
>
>(flaviosa /at/ wellesley.edu)
>Tel.: (781) 283-2618
>Fax: (781) 283-2876

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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