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Over recent years both mainstream Hollywood and independent film have increasingly politicized the transgressive body. Complex, humorous and often sympathetic representations of otherwise deviant sexualities have become a staple of film across a diverse range of genres. Film has engaged in ambivalent ways with issues such as paedophilia (The Woodsman [Kassell, 2004], Little Children [Field, 2006], Happiness [Solondz, 1998], Sleepers [Levinson, 1996], Mysterious Skin [Araki, 2004], Notes on a Scandal [Eyre, 2006], Trust [Schwimmer, 2010]), cross-generational love and desire among adults (The Mother [Michell, 2003], Elegy [Coixet, 2008]), agentic teen bodies (Thirteen [Hardwicke, 2003], Pretty Persuasion [Siega, 2005], Hard Candy [Slade, 2005], The Babysitters [Ross, 2007], sex addiction (Shame [McQueen, 2011], BDSM (Secretary [Shainberg, 2002]), vengeful bodies (Teeth [Lichtenstein, 2007]) and necrophilia (Child of God [Franco, 2013]. Following on from important critical work on ‘deviant’ sexualities and the transgressive body, this book will focus on Anglo-American film over the last 20 years and explore transgressive bodies in their socio-political and cultural context, paying particular attention to: * The feminist/gendered implications of cross-generational desire * Sympathetic/humorous constructions of paedophilia and resistance to moral panic discourses * Excessive bodies in their cultural contexts * Porn/sex addiction and sexualization discourses * Intimacy, technology and digital sexual selves/disembodied sexualities * Representations of prostitutes, strippers and sex workers * Sex after death: necrophilia, eroticism and the supernatural * Vengeful bodies (rape revenge narratives) * Sex, disability, disfigurement and contagion * Bodies, ethics and boundaries (students/teachers, doctors/patients) * Teen bodies, agency and spectatorship * Vanity and extreme body modification Abstracts of 300 words (for chapters of 6,000 words) and author biography to be submitted to Joel Gwynne ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by March 31st 2014. National Institute of Education (Singapore) http://www.nie.edu.sg DISCLAIMER : The information contained in this email, including any attachments, may contain confidential information. This email is intended only for the use of the addressee(s) listed above. Unauthorised sight, dissemination or any other use of the information contained in this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email by fault, please notify the sender and delete it immediately. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------