[Commlist] CFP Screening Sex - The Sex Scene (edited collection)

CFP – SCREENING SEX: THE SEX SCENE

Deadline for submission of abstracts: Friday 29 January 2021.

Proposals are invited for contributions to an edited collection titled 
The Sex Scene, the first book to be published as part of Edinburgh 
University Press’s new “Screening Sex” book series.

Screening Sex: The Sex Scene is intended to serve as a primer for the 
series. Taking the “sex scene” as a critical starting point for the 
series, the book will be a critical exploration of the significance of 
the depiction of sex on screen and in sexual cultures. This volume seeks 
a range of essays that will collectively consider histories and 
controversies (screen, legal, censorial, critical), industrial contexts 
and labour (writing, directing, performing and editing), the 
mise-en-scène of the sex scene (content, aesthetics, representation) and 
temporality and approach (in genres, form and style).
We are working with a purposefully wide remit to encourage a diverse 
collection of essays from a diverse range of writers and are keen to 
encourage a broad interpretation of “sex scene” – it could apply as much 
to a specific scene in a film as to a geographical scene or place in time.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION:
Chapters proposals should be submitted as a 300-400 word abstract to the 
editors Darren Kerr and Dr Donna Peberdy ((screeningsex /at/ gmail.com)) by 
Friday 29 January 2021, using the subject line “The Sex Scene proposal”. 
Please include a proposed title and author bio (150 words). Acceptance 
notices will be sent out in February 2021. Completed chapters 
(5,000-6,000 words) will then be due Friday 3rd December 2021. Please 
feel free to email with any queries prior to the submission of abstracts.
A NOTE ON THE SCREENING SEX BOOK SERIES:
The series’ scope and approach encourages a broad range of critical, 
contextual and cultural methodologies relating to sex on screen, drawing 
on cross-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research as well as 
encouraging intersectional observations and approaches. There will be a 
range of critical approaches covered across the series that will often 
be determined by theme proposed by the author/s. Approaches to queer 
theory, feminism and psychoanalysis will sit alongside genre studies, 
cultural studies and the social sciences. Besides analytical 
considerations of representational strategies, the series will also give 
space to examine the scope and change seen in industry practice, 
spanning production techniques, changing modes of exhibition and new 
strategies of distribution. The central argument throughout the series 
will be to address the importance of confronting, examining, challenging 
and re-framing social and cultural perceptions of sex in a meaningful 
and engaging way. While the series will include consideration of 
western, canonical, mainstream cinema, key features expected of the 
series will be to also account for non-western film cultures as well as 
marginal, alternative, underground, low-budget and independent films 
from a diverse range of voices, histories and material cultures beyond 
those that have been historically dominant. We are particularly keen to 
include previously unexplored/underexplored case studies. For more 
information see https://screeningsex.com/bookseries/ or contact Darren 
and Donna for more details.

SERIES EDITORS DARREN KERR
(darren.kerr /at/ solent.ac.uk)

Darren Kerr is Associate Professor of Sexual Cultures and Head of The 
School of Film and Television at Solent University, Southampton, UK. He 
has written on topics ranging from sexual perversion, celebrity 
auto-erotic asphyxiation and literature to film adaptations of sexual 
politics. Darren’s publications included Hard to Swallow: Hard-core 
Pornography on Screen (Wallflower) and Tainted Love: Screening Sexual 
Perversions (I.B. Tauris). He is series editor for EUP’s Screening Sex 
book series, co-director of screeningsex.com and a member of Routledge’s 
Porn Studies editorial board.

DONNA PEBERDY
(donna.peberdy /at/ solent.ac.uk)

Dr Donna Peberdy is Senior Lecturer in film and television at Solent 
University, Southampton UK. She is the author of Masculinity and Film 
Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema (Palgrave 
Macmillan) and co-editor of Tainted Love: Screening Sexual Perversion 
(I.B. Tauris). She is co-director of screeningsex.com and series 
co-editor of the Screening Sex book series (Edinburgh University Press). 
Her research on screen performance and the politics of identity has been 
published in the journals Celebrity Studies, Transnational Cinemas, The 
New Review of Film and Television, Men & Masculinities and edited 
collections American Television in the Trump Era (ed. Karen McNally), 
Acting (eds. Claudia Springer and Julie Levinson), A Companion to Film 
Noir (eds. Andrew Spicer and Helen Hanson), Film Dialogue (ed. Jeff 
Jaeckle) and Millennial Masculinity (ed. Timothy Shary).

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