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[Commlist] CFP: Paul Verhoeven@85

Mon Jan 15 16:04:17 GMT 2024





*Paul Verhoeven//@85: Critical Approaches*

Paul Verhoeven//(b. 1938) has left an indelible mark on popular culture. His films marry a European arthouse sensibility with the US blockbuster but in a wickedly satirical way. Yet this does not mean his films are not open to criticism.

His American dystopic trilogy – /RoboCop /(1987), /Total Recall/ (1990) and /Starship Troopers /(1997) – provided dark visions of futuristic metropoles that continue to resonate to this day, touching on capitalism, robotics, biopolitics, posthumanism, urban planning, artificial intelligence, transhumanism and climate change, while female-led dramas, such as /Basic Instinct /(1992), /Showgirls /(1995), /Black Book /(2006), /Elle /(2016) and /Benedetta /(2021), remain controversial for their overt eroticism, sexual violence and representation of lesbianism.

To critically explore the origins and legacies of Verhoeven’s body of work, this edited collection proposes to bring together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to explore Paul Verhoeven’s output, debate its legacy and consider its position within visual culture including specialists from fields as diverse as literary and cinematographic studies; the history of art, design, fashion and architecture; musicology; philosophy; political sciences; computer science and robotics; urban and ecological studies; and feminist, queer and sexuality studies.

We welcome contributions from any perspective such as (but not limited to) the following:

Paul Verhoeven as auteur: origins, influences, production, aesthetics, publicity, reception, afterlife, sequels and director’s cuts

Paul Verhoeven and biopolitics, posthumanism, urban planning and climate change

Paul Verhoeven and capitalism, neoliberalism, post-industrialism and the rise of multinational corporations

Paul Verhoeven and gender

Paul Verhoeven and memory

Paul Verhoeven and psychoanalysis

Paul Verhoeven and race, ethnicity and Otherness

Paul Verhoeven and reception: audiences, fandom and ‘cult’

Paul Verhoeven and robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic organisms, the transhuman and the post-human

Paul Verhoeven and science fiction

Paul Verhoeven and sexuality

Paul Verhoeven and stardom

Paul Verhoeven and tech noir, retrofuturism, future noir, and cyberpunk.

Please send a short abstract and biographical paragraph (no more than 400 words) in one document by 1 March 2024.

For further information, please contact the editors Nathan Abrams and Elizabeth Miller ((PaulVerhoevenConference /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(PaulVerhoevenConference /at/ gmail.com)>).

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