Apologies for cross-posting Documentary as body genre CfP Visible Evidence 18, August 11-14, 2011, NYU How can documentary be approached as a ‘body genre’? How are elements of more conventional body genres (melodrama, porn, horror, performance art) integrated and employed in documentary works; and/or how do the latter invent and allow for alternative forms of addressing embodiment? With a special interest in socially and academically marginalized bodies, this panel seeks to discuss various forms of embodiment on and off screen – as representation, event and/or address. Embodiment is here primarily though not exclusively viewed as a negotiation of a self. Possible topics may include but are not restricted to: - Autobiography/autobiographical performances - The in/visibility of particular bodies - Phenomenology - Political Mimesis - Laboring bodies - Sexuality - Pathology and death Please send a 250 words abstract, brief bibliography and bio until December 31, 2010 to [log in to unmask] Feng-Mei Heberer PhD candidate, Critical Studies, University of Southern California. -- Neu: GMX De-Mail - Einfach wie E-Mail, sicher wie ein Brief! Jetzt De-Mail-Adresse reservieren: http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/demail ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org