[Commlist] CFP: Gender, Genre and the Body in Contemporary North American and European Film

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***Edited Collection:

**/Gender, Genre and the Body in Contemporary North American and 
European Film/
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Gender and the body are inextricably connected, and it could be argued 
that within any given filmic context, they are also closely related to 
genre and generic traditions. Moreover, genres often use genders, gender 
stereotypes and bodies in diverse and specific ways, and gender and its 
relationship to the body performs different functions in the context of 
a given genre. In horror, for example, the body is typically tortured, 
ruptured and made abject, as evidenced in films such as /Human Centipede 
II/ (dir. Tom Six, 2011), /Prevenge/ (dir.Alice Lowe, 2016) and /Raw/ 
(dir. Julia Ducournau, 2016). In action/adventure, for instance, the 
body and the performance of gender is usually spectacular, robust and is 
tested to the limit, in films like /The Expendables/ (dir. Sylvester 
Stallone, 2010), /White House Down/ (dir. Roland Emmerich, 2013), and 
/Atomic Blonde /(dir. David Leitch, 2017).

This collection, then, aims to critically examine and interrogate the 
representation of the body and its relationship to/both/ gender and 
genre in contemporary North American and European film. For the sake of 
clarity, contemporary strictly means post-2010, and the films included 
and under discussion should have been produced and circulated in any 
North American or European countries. Moreover, we are using the term 
‘film’ instead of ‘cinema’, as we will accept chapters that not only 
examine and discuss theatrically-released films, but also underground 
and avant-garde films, as well as there being a section dedicated to 
(hard-core) pornography.

The collection will be structured around popular genres, and these are:

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    Horror

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    Comedy

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    Action/Adventure

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    Romance

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    Drama/Melodrama

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    Science-fiction

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    (Hard-core) Pornography

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    Musical

We are aiming to have 3 chapters for each section, with each chapter 
being 6,000 words long. In regards to hybrid genres, such as the rom-com 
or the ‘thriller’, it will be at the discretion of the editors to decide 
where to best place the chapter, and this decision will revolve around 
what films are being used as case studies, as well as how the authors 
frame their argument. In other words, we do not discourage applications 
which are concerned with hybrid films, but we do not have dedicated 
sections to hybrid or sub-genres.

Furthermore, chapters may centre on (but are obviously not limited to):

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    Masculinity, genre and the body

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    Femininity, genre and the body

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    Intersections of race, gender and the body

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    Intersections of sexuality, gender and the body

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    Intersections of class, gender and the body

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    Feminist approaches to gender, genre and the body

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    Embodiment

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    Queer bodies

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    Gender, genre and disability

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    Gender and/or bodily stereotypes

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    Labour, agency and the ‘working body’

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    Artificial bodies

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    ‘Unreal’ and/or spectacular bodies

The editors have been in contact with Edinburgh University Press, for 
this to be included in their ‘Gender and the Body in Contemporary 
Literature and Culture’ series, to which the series editors are also 
keen. Once abstracts have been accepted, a formal proposal will be sent 
to EUP in December 2019, with publication hopefully being early-to-mid 2022.

Please send abstracts of 250 – 300 words, with a supporting bio of no 
more than 100 words, to (gendergenrebodies /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(gendergenrebodies /at/ gmail.com)>by *_Friday 6^th September 2019_*.


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