[Bilimsel Haber] Call for Papers: Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean

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Dear Colleagues,

I am working on an edited collection of essays selected from those presented
at the international symposium Visions of Struggle: Women's Filmmaking in
the Mediterranean that I organized and was held at Wellesley College in
November 2007. While at the moment scholars on women directors from Italy,
France, Israel, the Maghereb and the Balkans have committed to submit their
work, I am still looking for contributions by women scholars on women
directors from Spain, Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and Egypt. I wonder if
you would be interested in participating in this collection or if you would
have names of women scholars expert in contemporary women filmmakers in
these countries. Thank you for all the help that you could give me in this
difficult and urgent search.

Description and goals of the book proposal:

Focusing on the neighboring countries in the Mediterranean rim, as the
general unifying geo-cultural location for a contemporary discussion on
women's human, civil, and social rights, this book elaborates a
cross-cultural definition of being a woman in struggle, transcending
geo-ethnic boundaries and bringing together shared life experiences. The
collection situates feminist arguments on questions of women's psychology,
anthropology, and sexuality. Such issues are examined through the works of
contemporary women directors from Mediterranean countries, whose cinema is
confrontational and relevant to the discourse of women's studies. These
artists are mobilized by diverse cinematic forms of intervention, take on
the responsibility as leading advocates for women's problems, and
purposefully use their cinematic art to document a new feminist social
realism. Contributors examine films which are expressions of counter-cinema,
cultural contestation and political commitment for Mediterranean women's
collective experience of struggle. Innovative in content, groundbreaking in
its multi-disciplinary approach to film text analysis and women's issues,
this volume is a significant contribution to the development of
transnational and comparative feminist film studies. Visions of Struggle is
an excellent resource for scholars and students interested in film, women's,
and cultural studies in the Mediterranean.

Papers should:

a) discuss only women directors from Mediterranean countries
b) include in your discussion preferably only films directed from the year
2000 to now
c) select only directors/films that address issues pertaining to women's
cultural and psychological issues, as well as themes related to women's
social and civil rights
d) motivate your director(s)' and film(s)' choices as expressions of
counter-cinema
e) situate your director(s)' and film(s)' choices as artistic
voices/expressions of a feminist discourse in the Mediterranean rim
f) develop a multi-disciplinary approach to film text analysis and women's
issues (including psychological, cultural, sociological, anthropological,
political and historical aspects)

Word limit of submittted papers 7,500 including notes and bibliography.
Chicago Style for the Humanities. The papers will be reviewed by external
and anonimous referees.
If interested, please send me a 500 word abstract and a 200 word bio.
Thank you for your attention to my invitation to participate to this
collection.

Best regards,
Flavia

Flavia Laviosa, PhD
Senior Lecturer
Department of Italian Studies
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
USA

Tel.: (781) 283-2618
Fax: (781) 283-2876

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