The editors for Screening Adult Cinema, under contract with Routledge, are seeking proposals for additional chapters to expand current entries and broaden the book’s scope.
This edited collection will be part of a series of “screening” companions meant to be used in teaching undergraduate courses. Screening Adult Cinema will offer 4,000 word essays, each analyzing an individual adult film.
Each chapter should consider any key historical, political, stylistic, or industrial contexts necessary to understanding the film more broadly. Given the restricted word count, we recommend that chapters focus on 2-3 key concepts, theories, histories, or debates within film studies or pertaining to film’s wider context.
For the purposes of this book, we are not placing any firm definition on the concept of “adult cinema.” We understand it as comprising films that centralize sex as a narrative, aesthetic, or marketing component. This is the first book of its kind, and we hope that it will help to broaden the field of adult film studies while also providing teachers with the tools to integrate adult film into their courses.
Given the book’s goal of being an undergraduate teaching tool, the films covered must be reasonably available (which we interpret as extant and not exclusively archival). We are particularly interested in films that have been underrepresented in adult film scholarship, including softcore from any era; contemporary hardcore; mainstream Hollywood sex films; animated sex films; films made by, for, or featuring people of color; and queer and trans hardcore; and films made in the Global South.
As the book is already in the process of being edited, there is, unfortunately, a short turnaround time for chapter submissions and a firm deadline of May 1 for delivery of draft manuscript, with revisions due back by June 30.
If interested, please email a 100-200 word abstract by February 15 to embreedesirae@gmail.com
Best,
Peter Alilunas
Desirae Embree
Finley Freibert
Affiliation/Organisation:
Texas A&M University
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