[ecrea] CFP: SCMS Panel on Postfeminist Girlhood

*Call for Papers for Proposed Panel*

Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference - March 6-10, 2013 - 
Chicago, IL


Panel Subject: *The Visual Aesthetics of Postfeminist Girlhood*

This proposed panel seeks to understand postfeminist girlhood as it is 
constructed visually in contemporary film, television, and digital media.

To date, numerous scholarly books and articles have addressed the 
discourses and narrative strategies associated with postfeminist media 
culture. Only a handful of these studies has focused specifically on 
girlhood, and far fewer have examined how postfeminism is articulated on 
the visual level in media texts about, for, and by girls.

With an understanding that youthfulness is central to the postfeminist 
sensibility, which also excessively values image, glamour, and 
visibility, the papers on this panel seek to broaden critical 
discussions of both postfeminist media and mediated girlhoods through 
attention to the visual aesthetics operating at their convergence.

Potential paper topics include:

- glamour and visibility

- youthfulness and feminine corporeality

- race and physical display

- hetero- and homonormative performances

- class, taste, and consumption

- magic and fantasy

- Princess culture

- celebrity culture

- makeover culture

- fashion, accessories, hair, and makeup

- lighting and cinematography

- production design

- narrative themes of visibility

- visual self-representation via digital media.

Please send a 250-word abstract with at least 3 references and a brief 
biographical note to Mary Celeste Kearney (mkearney /at/ mail.utexas.edu) 
<mailto:(mkearney /at/ mail.utexas.edu)> by July 22, 2012. (Text pasted into 
the body of an email is preferred over an attached Word document.) 
Selections for the panel will be made by August 15, 2012.