Dear all.
Thanks to anyone who has already submitted an abstract for this
conference. Although we have received a good selection of appropriate
proposals we are doing one last call for papers as we hope to make the
study day as big an event as possible and maximise the opportunities
for sharing approaches to studying Queer Screen Cultures. We can also
now confirm that presenters will have the opportunity for publication
in the MeCCSA-PGN peer-reviewed online journal, Networking Knowledge.
We also have a website up and running at
http://queerscreencultures.org/
Email abstracts to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
before January 15th 2009. Here is the call for papers:
CALL FOR PAPERS: Contemporary Queer Screen Cultures Postgraduate Study
Day at the University of Nottingham, Tuesday 5th May 2009
"Contemporary Queer Screen Cultures" is an interdisciplinary
postgraduate study day to be held at the University of Nottingham on
May 5th 2009 in association with the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network. It
is devised with the aim of bringing together researchers from across
the UK who deal with issues of queer visibility and representation,
and so making links across the disciplines and across the academic
spectrum.
Description
There has been a perceptible alteration in media representations of
queer sexualities since the 1990s, on a global scale. The cultural
visibility of queers has increased exponentially, with lesbian, gay,
bisexual and transgender characters now routinely populating film,
television and other digital media, and the mainstream press
frequently covering gay and lesbian stories as a matter of course.
This interdisciplinary event seeks to explore representations and
negotiations of queerness in contemporary screen cultures, as well as
their determinants. Supporting scholars from film and media studies,
sociology, politics and cultural studies among other disciplines, the
event will cover a number of themes and issues pertaining to on screen
queer visibility, including but not limited to:
• Cultural mainstreaming and the political contexts of queer visibility;
• Film-making and queer aesthetics;
• Queer audiences and participatory cultures: for example, L
Word theme parties;
• "Textual poaching," queer appropriations and slash fictions;
• Queer adaptations;
• Trans and genderqueer visibility: representations and marginalisation;
• National and regional queer identities in cinema and media;
• The impact of digitisation and the multi-platform environment
on queer visibility;
• Network branding and queer narrowcasting, as in the here! and
Logo channels;
• Internet technologies and queer self-fashioning: YouTube and
other online broadcasting.
Gary Needham of Nottingham Trent University, author of the forthcoming
Queer TV, and Dr Michele Aaron of the University of Birmingham, editor
of New Queer Cinema, will be delivering plenary lectures. There will
also be a roundtable discussion which will bring together both
speakers and delegates to debate 'the cultural mainstreaming of
queerness.'
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers from postgraduate research
students on any aspect of contemporary queer screen culture. Abstracts
of between 200-250 words and any other enquiries should be directed to
Natalie Edwards at [log in to unmask] or Rachel Walls at
[log in to unmask] by January 15th 2009.
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