[ecrea] CFP: Special Edition of Mai: Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture – ‘Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’

*CFP: Special Edition of /Mai: Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture/ – 
‘Feminist and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’*

The newly founded feminist and LGBTQIA+ journal /Mai/ is seeking 
contributions to its special edition, which revolves around ‘Feminist 
and Queer Perspectives on Sex in Contemporary Film and TV’. /Mai/ is a 
new journal founded and edited by Anna Backman Rogers (Senior Lecturer 
in Feminist Philosophy and Visual Culture, University of Gothenburg, 
Sweden) and is named after the Swedish feminist filmmaker Mai 
Zetterling. The journal aims to become the basis for an intersectional 
feminist and queer collective of scholars, writers, artists and 
activists. We are hoping for the edition to be published by March 2018, 
and we are also keen on receiving a range of papers, and other 
experimental pieces, which can be defined by contributors. Conventional 
or standard academic papers should be 5,000 – 6,000 words in length, 
although we will consider some shorter pieces of 3,000 words. Other 
pieces, such as interviews for instance, should aim to stick to this 
word limit too (5-6,000 words). For the sake of this edition, 
‘contemporary’ can also be loosely defined by those who submit papers, 
but generally means media texts released after 2000.

Papers may centre on:

·How contemporary Film and TV is stylistically or narratively 
representing sex.

·What role sex plays within genre or narrative more broadly.

·How different film/TV cultures use or represent sex to tell a story or 
to further character development.

·The political ramifications of screening sex.

·Ethical considerations of screening sex.

·The connection between socio-cultural factors and industrial shifts in 
relation to screening sex.

·Inter-sections of sex, sexuality and gender.

·Sex in relation to masculinity and femininity.

·Audiences and watching sex.

·‘Alternative’ representations of sex in Film and TV and the importance 
of these sexual images.

·‘Queer Sex’

·BDSM, Kink and ‘Othering’ the sex act.

·Heteronormative, hetero-centric or homonormative representations of sex.

·How the history of sex on-screen has affected present depictions.

·The relationship between pornography and sex in mainstream film/TV.

·The relationship between sex in cinema and sex on TV.

Abstracts should be 200 – 250 words, and should also include a short 
bio. The deadline for abstracts is 31^st July 2017, with successful 
contributors being contacted by 28^th August 2017, and then a copy of 
the paper should be sent to the editors by January 15^th2018, to then be 
peer-reviewed and edited.

Please email abstracts to: (Connor.Winterton /at/ mail.bcu.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Connor.Winterton /at/ mail.bcu.ac.uk)>(guest editor) and please feel 
free to get in touch with any informal enquiries, either to me or Anna 
Backman Rogers: (Anna.Backman.Rogers /at/ gu.se) <mailto:(Anna.Backman.Rogers /at/ gu.se)>


/Selected Publications:/

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/American Independent Cinema: Rites of Passage and The Crisis Image 
/(EUP 2015)


/Feminisms/, co-edited with Laura Mulvey (AUP 2015)


/Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure /(Berghahn 2017)


/Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice 
/and///Aesthetics/, co-edited with Boel Ulfsdotter (EUP 2017)

/
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/Female Agency/and /Documentary Strategies: Subjectivities, Identity, 
and Activism, /co-edited with Boel Ulfsdotter (EUP 2017)


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