From: Tony Smith (tonys@IASTATE.EDU)
Date: Mon May 24 2004 - 10:54:11 EDT
> >From popserve Sun May 23 09:57:24 2004 >From: Sébastien Budgen <sebastien.budgen@wanadoo.fr> >Subject: Two Calls for Papers from HISTORICAL MATERIALIS > M Please Circulate >Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 16:57:09 +0200 >X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) >To: undisclosed-recipients:; >X-PMX-Version: 4.6.0.97784, Antispam-Core: 4.6.0.97340, Antispam-Data: >2004.5.22.101440 >X-Perlmx-Spam: Gauge=XXI, Probability=21%, Report='UNDISC_RECIPS 2.399, >__MIME_VERSION_APPLEMAIL 0, __MSGID_APPLEMAIL 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, >__SANE_MSGID 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART_ALT 0, __EVITE_CTYPE 0, __CT 0, >__CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, >__X_MAILER_APPLEMAIL 0, __TO_MALFORMED_3 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, >__MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_CHARSET_FARAWAY 0, __USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL 0, >MIME_TEXT_ONLY_MULTI 0' > >Marxism and Film > >There is a long and distinguished tradition of Marxist writing on film, >from theorist-practitioners like Sergei Eisenstein and Dziga Vertov and >critics like Harry Potamkin onwards. Marxist thought was instrumental in >the birth of Film Studies as a discipline, and despite the subsequent >twists and turns¡Xlinguistic, psychoanalytic, postmodernist, >post-theory¡Xit continues and sustains, albeit often in the nooks and >crannies. > >Historical Materialism is keen to nurture and revitalise Marxist film >theory and criticism. We have already published >„h John Roberts, ¡¥Saving Private Ryan, Realism and the Enigma of >Head Wounds¡¦ >„h Mike Wayne, ¡¥A Violent Peace: Robert Guˆmdiguian¡¦s La Ville est >tranquille¡¦ >„h Anna Kornbluh, ¡¥On the Love of Money¡¦ (on Brett Ratner¡¦s The >Family Man) >„h Alex Law and Jan Law, ¡¥Magical Urbanism: Walter Benjamin and >Utopian Realism in the Film Ratcatcher¡¦ >„h Mike Wayne, ¡¥Utopianism and Film¡¦ (on Bill Forsyth¡¦s Local Hero) >We now wish to expand the range and variety of material on film and other >media in our pages. We are looking for review-essays (3,000+ words) and >articles (7,000+words)¡Xon particular movies as well as more theoretical >matters¡Xplus potential reviewers of books of film.. > >Editorial correspondence, suggestions for papers, queries and calls for >advice should go to Mark Bould at Mark.Bould@uwe.ac.uk > > >Marxism and Sexuality: The Sensuous in Political and Material Contexts > >¡K.the Marxist tradition has no more influence on the modern lesbian and >gay movement than it deserves. Gay Marxists who are encouraged by their >straight comrades and leaders to shun the very real gains won since the >GLF by an autonomous lesbian and gay movement are being seduced into an >essentially heterosexist project where gay issues are sidelined. Edge S >(1995) With Friends Like These: Marxism and Gay Politics London: Cassell p >3-4. > >Not all discourse on the relationship between Marxism and sexuality and >sexual politics is as damning, but the paucity and marginalised >contribution of Marxist theory and politics to the theory and politics of >sexuality is striking. The study of sex and sexuality has been colonised >by post-structuralist, micro-sociologist, non-Marxist feminist, >psychoanalytical and empiricist traditions. Historical Materialism seeks >to redress the balance in proposing to publish a special edition devoted >to the theme of 'Marxism and Sexuality: The Sensuous in Political and >Material Contexts' in late 2005. > >Papers are sought in the following areas: >¡E The contribution of Marxism to the theorising or politics of >sexuality (for example, the work of Bernstein, Kollontai, Reich, Guerin, >Marcuse) >¡E The materialist critical analysis of sexual identities, >orientations, relations, acts and practices ¡V from lesbian and gay >identities and cultures to Bondage, Domination and Sado-Masochism, >Paedophilia and other forms of sexual identity, culture or practice. >¡E The materialist critical analysis of the politics of sexuality ¡V >lesbian, gay, heterosexual, bisexual, transgendered politics, movements >and issues in law and policy. >¡E Marxism in the politics of sexuality around the globe >¡E Critical Marxist engagements with the theorising of sexuality >within post-structuralism, micro-sociology, feminisms, psychoanalysis and >empiricism >¡E Other papers which focus on features of Marxist analyses of >sexuality and sexual politics. > >Editorial correspondence, suggestions for papers and calls for advice >should go to Paul Reynolds ¡V reynoldp@edgehill.ac.uk. The project is >already at the commissioning stage so early expressions of interest in >contributing would be very welcome. > > > > ></blockquote></x-html>
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