Now accepting entries! New Directions Graduate Essay Prize: Porn Studies in association with the BAFTSS Screening Sex Special Interest Group.
Category: Current Notices
Roundtable: Sex and the Hollywood Production Code [25/26 seminar series]
Tom Brown, Kathrina Glitre, Martha Shearer and Adam Vaughan will discuss what Hollywood could show and/or infer of human sexuality during the Code Era.
seminar series
Details about events in the Screening Sex seminar series.
CFP Additional Chapters Sought for Screening Adult Cinema (Routledge)
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.
CFP Sex in contemporary media: An interdisciplinary conference 4-6 October 2023
Submission deadline: 29 May 2023 In their first issue of the Porn Studies journal, Attwood and Smith (2014) argued that “mediated forms of sex have become more commonplace and commercial sex products, services and representations have become steadily more visible.” Nearly ten years later, in the wake of #MeToo, SESTA/FOSTA, the rise of abortion bans and the … Continue reading CFP Sex in contemporary media: An interdisciplinary conference 4-6 October 2023
CFP THE SEX SCENE: REPRESENTATION, PERFORMANCE, AESTHETICS
We are looking for proposals for the second volume of Screening Sex: The Sex Scene. The Sex Scene: Representation, Performance, Aesthetics is the second of two volumes that will launch the Screening Sex book series with Edinburgh University Press. Please send a 250 word abstract plus short bio by Oct 31st 2022
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CFP – Screening Sex: The Sex Scene
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.
Spring 2020 Newsletter
Call for Contributions:Screening Sex in the Time of Coronavirus We are seeking short (1000-2000 word) articles, interviews, discussions or other content (video essays, artwork) that explore the impact of coronavirus on representations, cultures and discourses of sex. We would also welcome considerations of the impact on and implications of researching sex at this time. To what extent is coronavirus … Continue reading Spring 2020 Newsletter
CFP – Edited Collection: Gender, Genre and the Body in Contemporary North American and European Film
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 any given genre. This collection 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 films.
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