[ecrea] CFP - Cinema, Embodiment and the Body

Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and Moving Image invites submissions for
its 3rd issue.

Submission deadline: 15 February, 2012 (abstracts)

The third issue of Cinema takes up the theme of embodiment and the
body, its relationship to cinema’s history (theory and practice), and
its reawaken in a recent body of research attentive, not only to film,
but also to video and to new media. In the last few years, creative and
theoretical work have focused in the body, either as phenomenological
encounter immersed in everyday practices, or as a material process made
of fluids, energies and forces, arguing, in both cases, that cinema is a
‘cinema of lived experience’ and/or of ‘sensation’ where the
intellectual, mental and cognitive processes must be understood as
embodied and carnal. At a time when the rhetoric of disembodiment and
the virtual is becoming deeply questioned by flourishing issues on the
moving image’s sensuous and haptics qualities, cinema as sensation,
cinema of the body, etc., all these theorizations are, on the other
hand, faced with  particularly challenging issues that spring  from new
media practices, avatars and their prospective future: our changing
concept of human body and of its relationship to mind and consciousness
which is questioning the traditional mind/body divide.

This issue of Cinema calls for examinations of these issues in all its
forms, in contexts including and beyond film. The editor welcomes
innovative approaches that might address (but should not be limited to)
the following themes:

*Cinema and the senses
*Cinema and the body
*Cinema as sensation
*Cinema as a matterially-embodied structure
*Cinema as a physical shock
*Haptic/optic visuality
*Critics to ocularcentrism
*Moving Images and the ‘logics of sensation’
*New media and new cinematic experiences
*The embodied/disembodied debate and the moving images
*New media and the Posthuman body
*Embodied cognition
*Technology, art and body
*The virtual/actual
*Cyborgs, avatars.


The submission deadline is 15 February 2012 (for 500-word abstracts).
Prospective authors should submit a short CV along with the abstract. A
selection of authors will be invited to submit full papers according to
the journal guidelines. Acceptance of the abstract does not guarantee
publication, since all papers will be subject to double
blindpeer-review. Submissions are accepted in Portuguese and English
(and in French and Spanish, but only from native speakers of these
languages).

Cinema also invites submissions to its special sections: interviews,
conference reports, and book reviews. For further details, please
consult the journal’s web site
Feel free to contact the editor for this issue, Patrícia Castello
Branco on specific queries, or  Sérgio Dias Branco, and Susana Viegas,
with general queries at (cjpmi /at/ fcsh.unl.pt).


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