Jennifer Moorman and Maria San Filippo of UCLA are organizing a panel, "(Re)Constructing Bisexual Spaces" for the 2008 conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Conference info is posted on the SCMS website.
Here's info for scholars and graduate students who may wish to submit a proposal:
Summary:
In concert with the conference theme "Architectures of the Moving Image," this
panel aims to redress bisexual invisibility in visual media and associated academic discourses by surveying "bisexual spaces" throughout the visual
mediascape. We invite case studies and theoretical interventions that explore
sites (spatio-temporal locations) and sights (ways of seeing) between/beyond
heteronormativity and monosexuality.
We intend this panel to serve as a launching pad for a planned anthology on bisexualities and visual media, the first of its kind.
Please send abstracts (200-300 words) with short bio as a Word attachment via email to both organizers (jmoorman@ucla.edu, mariasf@ucla.edu) no later than August 10. (Please consult the SCMS guidelines before you submit.) Click "view full" to see list of possible topics.
Topics include, but are not limited to, any of the following:
-- Where and how bisexual erotics and subjectivities emerge in media forms
including animation, art installations, cinema, digital and online
media, music videos, pornography, television, and video games.
-- Bi-suggestive archetypes, auteurs, characters, icons, or star personas.
-- Bisexuality's role in media spectatorship or cultures of production,
promotion, and reception.
-- Bisexuality as it relates to narrative devices (the romantic triangle,
e.g.), specific genres (the buddy film, e.g.), or particular technologies
(cyber identities, e.g.).
-- What approaches and aims bisexuality studies should encompass, what ground
it inhabits within queer studies, or its potential as an alternative
to "normative" desires, identities, and practices.
-- Bisexuality's convergence with other queer identities (BDSM,
polyamory, trans) or feminisms.
-- Intersections of bisexuality with other identity formations (age,
class, nationality, race/ethnicity), multiculturalism,
postcolonialism, or transnationalism.
Mailing Address: University of California, Los Angeles
Department of Film, TV and Digital Media
Box 951622
102 East Melnitz Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622
Office Phone Number: (508) 259-6325, (323) 839-2634
