Dear colleagues,
This is a second call for abstracts for the edited volume Women and Violence in Greek Cinema. I’ve had a great response from colleagues so far, and I am now particularly looking for abstracts in the areas highlighted below, after a short summary of this book.
Gender-based violence has always existed as an urgent point of discussion in global and Greek feminist movements, and from time to time acquired prominence in public debate, informing political and legislative contexts and cultural production.
In recent years, feminicide has reached epidemic proportions in Greece. The rise in violence against women and feminicide has been sometimes framed as being a consequence of socio-political and financial crises, or the result of unprecedented restrictions and pressures due to the pandemic; and has even reignited a public ‘debate’ in some of the popular press reporting on right wing political views, with deeply misogynist roots, on whether to recognise some cases of the killing of women by men as feminicide at all.
At the same time, movements such as #MeToo in Greece and feminist activism have sought to resist misogynist narratives and push back against long-standing masculinist systems of oppression and violence.
In this context, it is more important than ever that we examine the relationship between women and violence, in all its forms, in the country’s cultural production. This edited volume focuses on Greek and Greek diasporic cinema and invites contributions that consider a variety of approaches relating to the broader topic of women and violence in the country’s cinematic output.
Women and representations of violence in Greek and/or Greek diasporic cinema
Women as perpetrators of violence
Women and complicity in violence
Mental health, women and violence
Religion, women and violence
Trans women and violence
Migrant or refugee women and violence
Conflict, women and violence
Documentary, women and violence
Greek film industry contexts, women and violence
Film criticism, women and violence
Please submit an abstract by 6th June 2023. Your abstract should be between 300-350 words long, and accompanied by a 100-word bio.
Please send your abstract and bio in a single file to [log in to unmask] by the stated deadline above.
With best wishes,
Tonia Kazakopoulou
--------------------------------------------------------
BAFTSS mailing list
--------------------------------------------------------
To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the BAFTSS list, please visit:
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=baftss
-------------------------------------------------------
This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members of BAFTSS.
--------------------------------------------------------
|