[Discussion] CFP: Sex, Sexuality and Identity in the Cinema (3/31/04; journal issue)

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In Film Studies as elsewhere in the Humanities, sexuality and identity
are often first conceptualized in psychoanalytical terms. In the case of 
a "national cinema" or Quebecois cinema  the reflection on sexual 
identity opens the door to a second paradigm of analysis: the
nation and the allegory. Femininity, masculinity, homosociality and
homosexuality then become fertile ground for the allegorization of the
national and the national identity around the sexual and sexual
politics.

The second issue of "Nouvelles vues sur le cinema quebecois"
[www.cinema-quebecois.net] proposes to question the relation between
nation and sexuality. We would like to offer a space for dialogue and
exchange of diverging ideas, paradigms and point of views, from
psychoanalysis to queer theory, from homosociality to the lesbian
continuum, from fatherhood to patriarchy, from men in crisis to the
liberated women. We would also like to open the discussion not only to
the "sexual," but also to sex itself, its corporeality, its
materiality, its symbolization and representation as an "acte
charnel." In other words, we would like to investigate the signs and
senses of sex, its affective and epidermal manifestations, an aspect
that often escapes academic rigor and scholarly discourses.

We invite researchers, students and filmmakers to send their original
abstracts (250-300 words) by email (in MS Word format - .doc) before
March 31, 2004. Final texts will have to be handed in by June 30, 2004,
and can be written in English or French.
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Bruno Cornellier
Nouvelles vues sur le cinema quebecois
www.cinema-quebecois.net
Redacteur en chef

bcornellier@cinema-quebecois.net
Ecole de cinema Mel Hoppenheim
Universite Concordia
1455 de Maisonneuve Ouest, FB 319
Montreal (Quebec) H3G 1M8
tel: (514) 484-9386