<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div id="center" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(248, 247, 242); text-decoration: none;" class=""><div id="main" class=""><div class="notify-lite-wrapper"><div class="notify-lite-body"><div id="5497128" class="digest-row"><h2 style="font-family: "PT Serif", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); text-align: left;" class=""><a href="https://networks.h-net.org/user/login?destination=node/5497128" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">Genders and Sexualities in Asian Cinemas</a></h2><div class="node-author">by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="username" xml:lang="" about="/users/vincenz-serrano" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" property="foaf:name" datatype="">Vincenz Serrano</span></div><div class="node-body"><p class="reposted-header" style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);">Your network editor has reposted this from<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5482903/genders-and-sexualities-asian-cinemas" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">H-Announce</a>. The byline reflects the original authorship.</p><div class="reposted"> <div class="field--name-body field--label-hidden field field--type-text-with-summary"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">The circulation, commodification, and repression of discourses on genders and sexualities within and among Asian countries has been a constant feature of regimes of modernization, from colonial through neocolonial and postcolonial periods. Aptly enough, it is mainly through the modern vehicle of cinema where these discourses play out.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Kritika Kultura</i>will be initiating a forum on the filmic representations of issues on genders and sexualities in the Southeast Asian region, in line with its commitment to the pursuit and development of cultural and media studies, slated for the journal’s February 2021 issue.</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">The forum invites scholars of gender, media, and culture to formulate topics that inspect and submit to critical evaluation, instances where Asian film products embodied controversies on gender and/or sexuality, as either local or as cross-cultural phenomena. The approaches will be premised on sex-positive feminist representation, as first articulated in the March 1985 special section of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>by editors Chuck Kleinhans and Julia Lesage (“Sexual Representation,” issue 30), and developed as well as debated by scholars and activists of feminisms, LGBTQ movements, and new masculinity studies.</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">The forum seeks to respond to the following questions: How are Asian concepts of genders and sexualities configured vis-à-vis Western social, psychological, and sexological formulations? How were these ideas imaged in audiovisual media (technologies that were similarly foreign in origin)? Within specific national histories of political and developmental upheavals, what choices did producers, artists, and audiences make by way of acknowledging liberative and/or progressive ideals in the depiction of genders and sexualities? How did Asian cinemas seek to advance their filmic discourses of genders and sexualities in relation or in opposition to Western or regional influences?</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class=""><b class="">Coverage</b></p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">Possible topics may cover (but need not be limited to) the following:</p><ul class=""><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">National, regional, and/or global sex film trends</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">The political economy of sex-film production</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Porn vs erotica: censorship and the sex-themed film</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Early stirrings: beginnings of sex-themed films in national film experiences</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Figures of desire: the sirens and/or studs of sex films</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Extraordinary passages: distribution circuits of film erotica</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">LGBTQ+ elements in film productions</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Gender and/or sexuality as political masquerade in cinema</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Perversion as transgression (or as containment) in film phenomena</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Vanilla behavior, asexuality, self-pleasure, repression: desires as absences</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Pain, pleasure, kinks, and consensualities in non-normative onscreen sex practice</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Transgenderisms, transsexualities, genderqueerness, and identity controversies in film</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Racialized (colonial or postcolonial) passions</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Innovations in digital production and/or distribution of sex-themed cinema</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Film trends on the imaging of queerness, femininities, masculinities, and/or non-binary sexualities</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">Othering the Other: the gaze of Westerners toward Asian sex films</li><li style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;" class="">The sexualization of Asians in Hollywood (or global) cinema</li></ul><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class=""><b class="">Submission Guidelines</b></p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">Paper proposals should be submitted electronically to the forum editor, Joel David, at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:joelsky2000@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">joelsky2000@yahoo.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:kk.soh@ateneo.edu" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">kk.soh@ateneo.edu</a>), no later than February 29, 2020. Any contribution will be acknowledged within 48 hours of receipt. All communication should use "genders and sexualities" as subject heading.</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">Proposals should consist of no longer than a two-page submission, comprising the following: title of the submission; name, affiliation, and short description of each author [up to a maximum of two authors per article]; three or four keywords (not mentioned in title or abstract) that describe the submission; contact information including mailing address, email address, and phone number; a single-paragraph paper proposal of up to 200 words; and a preliminary list of works to be cited (texts, websites, films/videos). Kindly note that audience or text (including big-data) survey studies may be considered, but the presence of theoretical engagement will be essential to the purposes of the journal.</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">Authors whose proposals are accepted should finalize their articles (7,000 to 8,000 words including works cited, observing the eighth edition of the Modern Language Association handbook), on or before July 31, 2020. These articles will then undergo the standard process of double-blind peer review for academic journals. For further inquiries on matters not mentioned in this CFP or on the journal website, please contact the forum editor and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Kritika Kultura</i>(<a href="mailto:joelsky2000@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">joelsky2000@yahoo.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:kk.soh@ateneo.edu" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">kk.soh@ateneo.edu</a>; subject heading: genders and sexualities).</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class=""><b class="">About<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">Kritika Kultura</i></b></p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class=""><i class="">Kritika Kultura</i> is acknowledged by a host of Asian and Asian American Studies libraries and scholarly networks, and indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, Arts and Humanities Citation Index (Clarivate), Scopus, EBSCO, the Directory of Open Access Journals, and the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs (ICCTP). For inquiries about submission guidelines and future events, visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">http://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or email <a href="mailto:kk.soh@ateneo.edu" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">kk.soh@ateneo.edu</a>.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field--name-field-announcement-contact field--type-text-long field--label-above"><div class="field__label">Contact Info: </div><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">Vincenz Serrano</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">Editor</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">Kritika Kultura</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">Department of English</p><p style="font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48);" class="">Ateneo de Manila University</p></div></div></div><div class="field--name-field-announcement-email field--label-inline clearfix field field--type-email"><div class="field__label">Contact Email: </div><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><a href="mailto:kk.soh@ateneo.edu" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">kk.soh@ateneo.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field--type-link-field field--label-inline clearfix field field--name-field-announcement-url"><div class="field__label">URL: </div><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><a href="https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk" rel="nofollow" style="color: rgb(50, 153, 187);" class="">https://journals.ateneo.edu/ojs/kk</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>